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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) by Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter
- Publisher
- Editions Rodopi
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789051835106
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Medical, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25