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Has the social history of medicine come of age?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ludmilla Jordanova
Ludmilla Jordanova
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University of Essex
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The Historical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 437 - 449
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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1 Wear, A. (ed.), Medicine in society (Cambridge, 1992), p. 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See also the article on Cheyne, in The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, pp. 222–45Google Scholar.