Brunton, Deborah
(2002). Power, policy and practice: the public response to public health in the Scottish city.
In: Sturdy, Steven ed.
Medicine, health and and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000.
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine.
UK: Routledge, pp. 171–188.
Abstract
About the book: Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.
In a series of detailed historical case studies, contributors examine the role of various public institutions - both formal and informal, voluntary and statutory - in organizing and coordinating collective action on medical matters. In so doing, they challenge the determinism and fatalism of Habermas's overarching and functionalist account of the rise and fall of the public sphere.
Of essential interest to historians and sociologists of medicine, this book will also be of value to historians of modern Britain, historical sociologists, and those engaged in studying the work of Jürgen Habermas.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| ISBN: |
0-415-27906-2, 978-0-415-27906-2 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > History |
| Item ID: |
3880 |
| Depositing User: |
Deborah Brunton
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:50 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3880 |
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