taking such a large canvas to fill out that it really fails to say anything new and does not even always acknowledge its sources. But the defect is compensated in the discussion of the eating habits and behaviour of the young, a social group less studied in medical history than ought to have been the case. Its last section is titled, rhetorically, 'Do doctors make their patients sick?' and the ...

The relationship between biology and politics is manifold, ranging from politics within biology and implications of politics for biological research to intrinsic political dimensions of biological insights. Politics within biology plays out in the everyday practice of academic and applied science and has recently reached a new dimension in the context of priority and patent disputes, whereas po...

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This paper explores the relationship between medicine and politics, between medical management of the human body and governmental management of the body politic. It argues that the increasing complexity both of society and of governmental administration of society in the modern age has made it impossible completely to separate medicine from politics. It demonstrates that, along with great poten...