Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical

." . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twe

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical

During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and

This book contains over forty authoritiative essays, focusing on the political economy of medicine and health, understandings of the body and transformations of