The great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This volume, containing eleven essays plus a lengthy introduction, seeks to explore it historically. It takes a long perspective, covering the last two centuries and also an international viewpoint, examining Britain in detail but also containing contributions dealing with the United States, Germany, Russia and France.
Table of contents:
Introduction. Janet SEMPLE: Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care. Robert WEBB: Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service. Anne HARDY: Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics. Bernard BRAIS: Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism During the Third Republic. Susan GROSS SOLOMON: The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s. Paul WEINDLING: Heinrich Zeiss (1888-1949), German Medicine and the Holocaust. John EYLER: The Sick Poor and the State: Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility. Charles WEBSTER: The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn. Frank HONIGSBAUM: Christopher Addison: A Realist in Pursuit of Dreams. Dorothy PORTER: John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution? Elizabeth FEE and Edward MORMAN: The Politics of Medical History and Social Medicine in the United States: Reflections on the Careers and Contributions of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen.
Table of contents:
Introduction. Janet SEMPLE: Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care. Robert WEBB: Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service. Anne HARDY: Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics. Bernard BRAIS: Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism During the Third Republic. Susan GROSS SOLOMON: The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s. Paul WEINDLING: Heinrich Zeiss (1888-1949), German Medicine and the Holocaust. John EYLER: The Sick Poor and the State: Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility. Charles WEBSTER: The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn. Frank HONIGSBAUM: Christopher Addison: A Realist in Pursuit of Dreams. Dorothy PORTER: John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution? Elizabeth FEE and Edward MORMAN: The Politics of Medical History and Social Medicine in the United States: Reflections on the Careers and Contributions of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen.