/lit/ - Literature

My friend actually studied the history of medicine at Yale. I'll ask him about it later if you're still around.

>>2043857
that'd be great, thanks! i"ll try to keep the thread alive, meanwhile i'll hopefully get more suggestions

Asimov's Guide to Science, read the Biology section in particular (as halved from Chemistry & Physics).

>>2043851
What sort of level? High school text books on history of medicine could be a good place to start, tbh.

>>2043870
No. Read real History of Medicine stuff.

I recommend:
Nicholas Rasmussen /On Speed/

i would prefer an in-depth, but easy to understand read

>>2043881
this looks pretty good, but how detailed is it? it be nice to have something that covers medicine as a whole instead of just amphetamines

"Manufacturing Depression" has a few sections on the development of psychiatric medications.

>>2043907
This is like asking for a history of warfare. You won't find a history—a monograph written by a historian—about all of medicine. Chinese, Indian, African, European, Greek?

You need to be more specific? A history of post 1800 surgery? Fine. A history of big pharma? Fine.

History of Medicine is a whole academic discipline, like labour history, or political history, or cultural history.

Medicine Becomes a Science: 1840-1999

http://library.nu/docs/HCB0EIAQX4/Medicine%20Becomes%20a%20Science%3A%201840-1999%20%28The%20History
%20of%20Medicine%29

The Scientific Revolution and Medicine 1450-1700 (The History of Medicine)

http://library.nu/docs/0BNS51CL78/The%20Scientific%20Revolution%20and%20Medicine%201450-1700%20%28Th
e%20History%20of%20Medicine%29

I haven't read these but they seem legit.

>>2043940
>Facts On File is an award-winning publisher of print, eBooks, and online reference materials for the school and library market.

Exactly how legit does that sound? Doesn't sound scholarly at all.

>>2043946
Well Facts on File is a subsidiary of Infobase, which now owns Cambridge educational, Chelsea House, Ferguson, etc.

They are basically one of the first companies to bring text books to digital print for higher education learning in a mass market way.

There are plenty other histories of medicine if you look on the website I posted. They probably get more legit the narrower the subject matter.

>>2043959
I'd rather you suggest OUP, CUP, or other credible University Presses tbh.

fou motherfucking cault

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>>2043982
this seems pretty good but how up to date and accurate is it?

>>2043982
also, something else i would like to know about this is, since it was originally written in french, does it focus at all on the amercian medical system?

>>2044246
Foucault's theories on medicine and discipline are tendentious. He is popular with "critical and cultural studies" people, ie, continental philosophers. He is much less popular with historians.

Foucault is influential enough in and of himself in terms of his approach to medicine to be worth reading. If nothing else, Foucault sufficiently overstates the structuralist position that medicine is a constructed disciplinary system that you'll never again think that "science" equals "objective and impartial", but rather equals "socially conditioned agreed value system".

>>2044396
Foucault was French. He wrote in French. Like most French structuralist sociologists he used the French system as the example of perfect history and modernism.

>>2043857
did this ever come through?