Doctors, Politics And Society: Historical Essays.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 23) (Clio Medica 23/the Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) (English)

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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.