The Western Medical Tradition
1800–2000

This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.

W. F. Bynum (Author), Anne Hardy (Author), Stephen Jacyna (Author), Christopher Lawrence (Author), E. M. Tansey (Author)

9780521475655, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 March 2006

630 pages, 15 tables
17.5 x 24.9 x 3.3 cm, 1.04 kg

'This section will challenge many, if not most, honours students, but will be ultimately very rewarding for them (and their teachers). Jacyna skilfully deconstructs the ideological role of professional elites and medical heroes, and is tellingly sensitive to the historical significance of the lower ranks of the profession as the 'shock troops of the bourgeois revolution.' Medical History

This book, first published in 2006, is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in the modern world. It contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after the Second World War. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000 is a companion volume to The Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800.

1. Medicine in transformation, 1800–50 Stephen Jacyna
2. The rise of science in medicine, 1850–1913 W. F. Bynum
3. Continuity in crisis: medicine, 1914–45 Christopher Lawrence
4. Medical enterprise and global response, 1945–2000 Anne Hardy and E. M. Tansey.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX], History of ideas [JFCX]