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PRACTICE OF REFORM IN HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SCIENCE, 1500-2000: ESSAYS FOR CHARLES...; ED. BY MARGARET PELLING

The essays in this volume discuss the impact of religious and secular ideologies on ideas about the nature and organisation of health, medicine and science, as well as the effects of social and political institutions in shaping the possibilites for reform within medicine and science.

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medium · 376 pages

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