The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed an unprecedented expansion of preventive and therapeutic services offered by the state through its local author

This book studies the evolution of medical theory and education in Germany between 1750 and 1820.

This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the

This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Although articles in this volume fall into three thematic clusters, each of those groups exemplifies three general themes: micro-social processes; innovations a