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Balancing the self

SOCIAL HISTORIES OF MEDICINE

Series editors: David Cantor, Elaine Leong and Keir Waddington

Social Histories of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world. The series covers the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of all approaches to health and healing come within its scope, as do their ideas, beliefs and practices, and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which they operate. Methodologically, the series welcomes relevant studies in social, economic, cultural and intellectual history, as well as approaches derived from other disciplines in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities. The series is a collaboration between Manchester University Press and the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

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Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48 George Campbell Gosling

The politics of vaccination Edited by Christine Holmberg , Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough

Leprosy and colonialism Stephen Snelders

Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890 Alannah Tomkins

Conserving health in early modern culture Edited by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey

Migrant architects of the NHS Julian M. Simpson

Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914 Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martínez

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750–1834 Steven King

Medical societies and scientific culture in nineteenth-century Belgium Joris Vandendriessche

Managing diabetes, managing medicine Martin D. Moore

Vaccinating Britain Gareth Millward

Madness on trial James E. Moran

Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine Edited by John Cunningham

Feeling the strain Jill Kirby

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture Emily Cock

Communicating the history of medicine Edited by Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm

Progress and pathology Edited by Melissa Dickson , Emilie Taylor-Brown and Sally Shuttleworth

Balancing the self

Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century

Edited by Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore

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Balancing the self

Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century

Editors: Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore
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Manchester University Press
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