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Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times.(Review)
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times. By DOROTHY PORTER (London: Routledge, 1999; pp. 376. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]).
OVER, the 1990s a small rash of edited and (less commonly) single-authored histories of medicine covering wide areas and periods has appeared. There is also a large number of publications on, or tangentially concerned with, tuberculosis. Sweeping histories of medicine are more common than in many branches of history. In common with most of these publications, Dormandy and Porter both focus on the last two centuries. There are two ways of viewing this practice of covering every period from the ancient world …
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