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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"social history of medicine"”.
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The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s
This thesis adopts a social history of medicine approach to explore the contradictions surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and …
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Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910
This thesis is a contribution to the social history of medicine and to urban history. It attempts to examine the impact of public health reform on Cape Town society between 1880 and 1910. Accepting the argument that the control of disease is one of the means by which a dominant establishment may …
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Portraits of patients and sufferers in Britain, c. 1660-c. 1850
Portraits of sufferers and patients in the long eighteenth century have been understudied – especially by comparison with portraits of doctors and other visual imagery that supposedly illuminates long eighteenth-century medical history. Yet these portraits – and the art historical methods used to …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
As a writer of medical summaries and compendia, Oribasius has often been dismissed as a harbinger of late antique medical decline. This dissertation challenges this long-lived assumption by revaluating the compiler and his writings, and the place of medicine in the cultural and social landscape of …