Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000 / edited by Paul Weindling.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Paul Weindling -- Public and private health care for the poor, 1650s to 1960s / Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King -- Children's health in public and private, 1700-1950 / Alysa Levene -- Mental disorder, crime and the development of healthcare systems / Katherine D. Watson -- Health care and the design and management of public and private space : Britain, France and the US, c. 1750-c. 1950 / Tom Crook -- Private and public traditions of healthcare in Central and south-eastern Europe, from the nineteenth to the (mid- )twentieth centuries / Marius Turda -- Healthcare as nation-building in the twentieth century : the case of the British National Health Service / Glen O'Hara and George Campbell Gosling -- South Africa's mixed economy of healthcare / Anne Digby -- Pharmaceutical innovation in the public and private spheres in the twentieth century / Viviane Quirke -- International health between public and private in the twentieth century / Paul Weindling.

"Discussing the history of medicine and its social relations across the globe from the early modern period to 2000, this title examines how modernisation of healthcare resulted in a range of social arrangements in public and private"--Provided by publisher.

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