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The practice of reform in health, medicine, and science, 15002000: essays for Charles Webster
1. Medicine Great Britain History 2. Medicine Europe History 3. Health care reform Great Britain History 5. Medical care Great Britain History 6. Science Great Britain History
I. Pelling, Margaret II. Mandelbrote, Scott III. Webster, Charles, 1936
610.9'41
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The practice of reform in health, medicine, and science, 15002000: essays for Charles Webster / edited by Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-3933-9 (alk. paper)
1. MedicineGreat BritainHistory. 2. MedicineEuropeHistory. 3. Health care reformGreat BritainHistory. 4. Medical policyGreat BritainHistory. 5. Medical careGreat BritainHistory. 6. ScienceGreat BritainHistory. I. Webster, Charles, 1936- II. Pelling, Margaret. III. Mandelbrote, Scott.
R486. P73 2005
610'.94dc22
2005015471
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3933-6 (hbk)
JONATHAN BARRY joined the University of Exeter in 1985 after three years as Charles Websters Research Assistant for his official history of the NHS at the Wellcome Unit in Oxford. He is now Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies. He has published extensively on urban and cultural history and the middling sort in early modern England, especially Bristol and the south west. He is currently working on several projects on the socio-cultural history of religion, witchcraft and medicine in the south west c. 1640-1800.
VIRGINIA BERRIDGE is Professor of History at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She is head of the History Group and of the newly established Centre for History in Public Health. Her research interests range from smoking, illicit drugs, alcohol and HIV/AIDS, to the recent history of public health. Her publications include Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England (2nd edn, Free Association Books, 1999); AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy 1981-1994 (Oxford University Press, 1996); Health and Society in Britain since 1939 (CUP/The Economic History Society, New Studies in Economic and Social History, 1999); and Poor Health: Social Inequality Before and After the Black Report (Frank Cass, 2002).
LINDA BRYDER is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Auckland. Her first book, Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 1988), was based on her D. Phil, thesis supervised by Charles Webster. She is currently researching the history of the National Womens Hospital, Auckland. Her most recent publications include A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare in New Zealand 1907-2000 (Auckland University Press, 2003).
ANTONIO CLERICUZIO is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Cassino. He is the author of Elements, Principles and Corpuscles. A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (Dordrecht, 2000), and co-editor of The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (6 vols, London, 2001).
PIETRO CORSI is Professor of the History of Science at Paris 1 University, Panthon-Sorbonne, and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is author of Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800-1860 (Cambridge, 1988), based on a D. Phil, thesis supervised by Charles Webster, and Lamarck. Gense et enjeux du transformisme 1770-1830 (Paris, 2001).
ROBERT CROCKER completed his doctorate on Henry More under Charles Webster at Oxford in 1986. Since then he has taught European and Australian history at Flinders University, and history of architecture and design at the University of South Australia. He recently published a revised version of his thesis entitled Henry More, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2003).
MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, a Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology, has written extensively on early modem intellectual history and the history of science. His most recent book is The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modem Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004).
PENELOPE GOUK is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester. She is currently writing about changing medical explanations for musics effects on human nature between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. She is editor of (with Helen Hills) Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine (Ashgate, 2004), and of Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts (Ashgate, 2000); and author of Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 1999).
HOWARD HOTSON is Professor of Early Modem History and Director of the Centre for Early Modem Studies, Kings College, University of Aberdeen. His monographs include Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform (Oxford, 2000), which derived from a D. Phil, dissertation supervised by Charles Webster.
LAUREN KASSELL is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She is the author of
