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 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