Yazar: Margaret Pelling

Dora spends a lot of time watching the mobile of the planets above her daughter’s cot and listening to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star…Her relationship with Steve has been stretched to its limits by …

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Debates on policy concerning medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, and many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. This study sets ou …

Debates on policy concerning medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, and many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. This study sets ou …

This important collection of Margaret Pelling’s essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England – including a number published here for the first ti …

This important collection of Margaret Pelling’s essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England – including a number published here for the first ti …

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work o …

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work o …

Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking …