Books written by Charles Webster

Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century

Gilbert , Humphrey 304 Gilbert , William 165 , 172 , 178 , 190 , 198 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202 , 203 , 313 , 323 gilds 165 , 173 , 208 , 212 , 220 , 227 , 235 , 354 Glasgow Medical Gild 220 Glavin , Alice 223 Glisson , Francis 199 ...
From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science

As Pagel has amply demonstrated Harvey and his major disciple Glisson remained resolutely vitalist in their biological philosophy.58 Even the French mechanical philosophers, the bastion of standard interpretations of the rise of ...
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Most of the work has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections.
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces the history of nursing from 1800 and speculates on the future of nursing in the year 2000.
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Griffiths and Project 2000 The most recent phase of the contest between managerial and professional versions of nursing can be examined through two important groups of documents. On the one hand, there are the various publications ...
The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000: Essays for Charles Webster

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work...
Health and Society in Twentieth-century Wales

This book offers an illuminating introduction to many aspects of health and society in twentieth-century Wales, ranging from public health to personal lifestyles and household budgets, birth control and the...
Biology, Medicine and Society 1840-1940

This volume originates from a Past and Present conference on 'The Roots of Sociobiology' held in 1978 and incorporates the results of recent research on problems in the social relations of the biological sciences.
Aneurin Bevan on the National Health Service

Aneurin Bevan on the National Health Service
Essays on the Life and Work of Thomas Linacre, C. 1460-1524

Linacre, Thomas.
The National Health Service: A Political History

The foundation of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 was a momentous development in the history of the United Kingdom.
The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1974, this volume is a collection of original articles and debates, published in the journal between 1953 and May 1973, dealing with many aspects of the intellectual history of the seventeenth century.
General Practice Under the National Health Service 1948-1997

This is a history of general practice under the National Health Service, covering the whole of the first 50 years, from 1948 to the present.
Foreign Policy of Palmerston 1830-1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement and the Eastern Question

Foreign Policy of Palmerston 1830-1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement and the Eastern Question