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What is Medical History?
ISBN: 978-0-745-63224-7
April 2005
Polity
160 pages
Burnham explains that people are drawn into reading and writing about five often controversial dramas inherent in the stories of:
Uniting all of these dramas, Burnham shows, was the tension between the forces of medicalization and the forces of demedicalization.
Burnham, a distinguished and versatile historian of medicine and health, offers a colorful introduction to both traditional subjects, such as the evolution of medical instruments, and the latest controversies. In this dynamic field, he contends, the unanswered questions remain as attractive as the scholarship that gives rise to them.