Medical Histories of Belgium

New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Benoît Majerus editor Joris Vandendriessche editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:26th Oct '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Medical Histories of Belgium cover

Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Medical Histories of Belgium is a useful book. Moreover, twenty-one authors from both the French- and Dutch-speaking academic communities contributed to this volume. Reputed medical historians wrote the nine chapters, but also, and very promising, a whole new generation of young researchers contributed to the effort.
Social History of Medicine

ISBN: 9781526151087

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 22mm

Weight: 608g

400 pages