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Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 23
- Clio Medica, Volume: 23
The great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This volume, containing eleven essays plus a lengthy introduction, seeks to explore it historically. It takes a long perspective, covering the last two centuries and also an international viewpoint, examining Britain in detail but also containing contributions dealing with the United States, Germany, Russia and France.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care
Janet SEMPLE
Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service
R.K. WEBB
Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics
Anne HARDY
Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism During the Third Republic
Bernard BRAIS
The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s
Susan GROSS SOLOMON
Heinrich Zeiss (1888-1949), German Medicine and the Holocaust
Paul WEINDLING
The Sick Poor and the State: Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility
John M. EYLER
The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn
Charles WEBSTER
Christopher Addison: A Realist in Pursuit of Dreams
Frank HONIGSBAUM
John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution?
Dorothy PORTER
Doing History, making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen
Elizabeth FEE and Edward MORMAN
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care
Janet SEMPLE
Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service
R.K. WEBB
Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics
Anne HARDY
Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism During the Third Republic
Bernard BRAIS
The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s
Susan GROSS SOLOMON
Heinrich Zeiss (1888-1949), German Medicine and the Holocaust
Paul WEINDLING
The Sick Poor and the State: Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility
John M. EYLER
The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn
Charles WEBSTER
Christopher Addison: A Realist in Pursuit of Dreams
Frank HONIGSBAUM
John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution?
Dorothy PORTER
Doing History, making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen
Elizabeth FEE and Edward MORMAN
Index