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Studies in the social history of medicine

Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives / edited by Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine

The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.

Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960 / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris.

Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys.

Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty.

xii, 292 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.

In the name of the child : health and welfare, 1880-1940 / edited by Roger Cooter.

From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby.

Reassessing Foucault : power, medicine, and the body / edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter.

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Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives / edited by Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith.

The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.

Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960 / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris.

Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys.

Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty.

In the name of the child : health and welfare, 1880-1940 / edited by Roger Cooter.

From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby.

Reassessing Foucault : power, medicine, and the body / edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter.

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Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives / edited by Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith.

The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.

Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960 / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris.

Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys.

Midwives, society, and childbirth : debates and controversies in the modern period / edited by Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty.

In the name of the child : health and welfare, 1880-1940 / edited by Roger Cooter.

From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby.

Reassessing Foucault : power, medicine, and the body / edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter.

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