Chapter 1 The non-patient’s view

Since Roy Porter’s pioneering work on the ‘patient’s view’, historians have taken up the challenge to rewrite medicine’s past ‘from below’. However, this chapter argues that they have not been radical enough and have neglected a key part of Porter’s agenda for the new social history of medicine. He...

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Main Author:	Worboys, Michael
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester University Press 2021
Subjects:	general practice; non-patient’s view; over-the-counter medicines; patient’s view; self-care; self-medication; symptom iceberg thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50924
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