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Medical histories of Belgium : new narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of medicine in national overviews, which have focused mostly on stateprofession interactions. Instead, the chapters bring more complex histories of health, care and citizenship. These new histories explore the relation between medicine and a variety of sociopolitical and cultural views and realities, treating themes such as gender, religion, disability, media, colonialism, education and social activism. The novelty of the book lies in its thorough attention to the (too often little studied) second half of the twentieth century and to the multiplicity of actors, places and media involved in the medical field. In assembling a variety of new scholarship, the book also makes a contribution to ‘decentring’ the European historiography of medicine by adding the perspective of a particular country Belgium to the literature.

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610.9493 VAN m

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press., 2021

Collation

xiv, 400 p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781526151087

Classification

610.9493

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Subject(s)

Europe
medicine
Social & cultural history
Belgium

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by Joris Vandendriessche and Benoit Majerus

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