John Pickstone
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Victor Pickstone was a British historian of science and the Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.
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Published Works
- Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2000) (206)
- Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine (1993) (141)
- Medicine in the twentieth century (2000) (72)
- Museological Science? The Place of the Analytical/Comparative in Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine (1994) (70)
- Ways of knowing: towards a historical sociology of science, technology and medicine (1993) (68)
- Medical innovations in historical perspective (1992) (66)
- Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800 (2007) (57)
- Epidemics and ideas: Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British ‘public health’, 1780–1850 (1992) (55)
- Medicine and Industrial Society: A History of Hospital Development in Manchester and Its Region, 1752-1946 (1988) (43)
- Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century (2007) (42)
- Production, Community and Consumption: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Medicine (2000) (38)
- From what and why did genetics emerge as a medical specialism in the 1970s in the UK? A case-history of research, policy and services in the Manchester region of the NHS. National Health Service. (1999) (32)
- Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century (2016) (32)
- Medicine and Industrial Society: A History of Hospital Development in Manchester and Its Region 1752-1946. (1987) (30)
- Ferriar's Fever to Kay's Cholera: Disease and Social Structure in Cottonopolis (1984) (26)
- Bureaucracy, Liberalism and the Body in Post-Revolutionary France: Bichat's Physiology and the Paris School of Medicine (1981) (21)
- Past and Present Knowledges in the Practice of the History of Science (1995) (20)
- On the uses of history (1998) (19)
- Medical fringe and medical orthodoxy 1750–1850 (1988) (16)
- A Brief Introduction to Ways of Knowing and Ways of Working (2011) (15)
- Unpromising configurations: towards local historical geographies of psychiatry. (2009) (15)
- The politics of medicine in Manchester, 1788-1792: hospital reform and public health services in the early industrial city. (1984) (14)
- Medicine in Manchester: Manchester in Medicine, 1750-2005 (2005) (14)
- Amateurs and Professionals (2009) (13)
- Sketching Together the Modern Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2011) (13)
- Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement (2007) (13)
- Medical Milestones celebrating key advances since 1840 (2007) (12)
- Medical History as a Way of Life (2005) (12)
- The Experimenter's Museum: GenBank, Natural History, and the Moral Economies of Biomedicine (2011) (11)
- Commentary: from history of medicine to a general history of 'working knowledges'. (2009) (11)
- The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850 (review) (1996) (10)
- Homoeopathy and the medical profession (1990) (10)
- Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients (2007) (9)
- The History of British Pathology (1993) (8)
- Public and Environmental Health (2009) (8)
- Science and Technology in Manchester: an introduction to the history (2007) (8)
- Medical Botany around 1850: American Medicine in Industrial Britain (1988) (7)
- Psychiatry in District General Hospitals: History, Contingency and Local Innovation in the Early Years of the National Health Service (1992) (7)
- Thomas Percival and the Production of Medical Ethics (1993) (6)
- The Experimental Body (2016) (6)
- Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine: Constructions of English Patients and Patient Histories Around 1980 and Now (2012) (6)
- The modern biological and earth sciences (2009) (6)
- How Might We Map the Cultural Fields of Science? Politics and Organisms in Restoration France (1999) (6)
- Focus: between and beyond "histories of science" and "histories of medicine". Introduction. (2011) (6)
- Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City 1750-2005 (2005) (5)
- Establishment and Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: An Exploration of some Correspondence and Connections Between Religious and Medical Belief-Systems in Early Industrial England (1982) (5)
- The rule of ignorance: a polemic on medicine, English health service policy, and history (2011) (5)
- Replacing Hips and Lenses: Surgery, Industry and Innovation in Post-War Britain (2006) (5)
- The Cambridge History of Science (2009) (5)
- ‘Bones in Lancashire: towards long-term contextual analysis of medical technology’ (2006) (5)
- Vital actions and organic physics: Henri Dutrochet and French physiology during the 1820s. (1976) (4)
- The development and present state of history of medicine in Britain. (1999) (4)
- Medicine, Madness and Social History (2007) (4)
- Medicine in industrial Britain: the uses of local studies. (1989) (4)
- Imaging: revealing the world within (2007) (4)
- The Manchester heritage (1993) (4)
- On knowing, acting, and the location of technoscience: A response to Barry Barnes (2005) (4)
- Some Manchester sources for the history of sciences, technology and medicine, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (1989) (3)
- Discovering the movement of life: osmosis and microstructure in 1826. (1994) (3)
- Expansion volume of alkali activated foamed cork composites from tungsten mining mud waste with aluminium (2019) (3)
- Field Stations and Surveys (2009) (3)
- The Professionalisation of Medicine in England and Europe:the state,the market and industrial society (1979) (2)
- A profession of discovery: Physiology in nineteenth-century history (1990) (2)
- Special Volume on the History of Science and Technology in the Manchester Region: Manchester Regional History Review. With survey article as introduction (2007) (2)
- Review: Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800–1940 (2002) (2)
- Experimentation and Ethics (2009) (2)
- Natural Histories, Analyses and Experimentation: Three Afterwords (2011) (2)
- Early dialysis in Britain: Leeds and beyond. (2011) (2)
- Anatomy, Histology, and Cytology (2009) (2)
- Hips, Health Services and Quality (2007) (1)
- Michael Worboys. Spreading Germs: Disease, Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900. (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 327. $59.95 (2002) (1)
- The effects of arts, trades and professions on health and longevity, 1832 (1988) (1)
- The Cambridge History of Science: volume VIII Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (2018) (1)
- Book Review:The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900 Anne Hardy (1995) (1)
- Community, Professions and Business. A history of the Cenral Manchester teaching hospitals and the National Health Service (2008) (1)
- Total Hip Replacement: Introduction, Sources and Outline (2007) (1)
- Biology and Human Nature (2009) (1)
- Manchester's history and Manchester's medicine. (1987) (1)
- Obituary: Professor Donald Cardwell (4 August 1919–8 May 1998) (1999) (1)
- The disunities of representation (2009) (1)
- Review of Medical Innovation in Historical Perspective. [Review of: J. Pickstone (1994) Medical Innovation in Historical Perspective.] (1994) (0)
- Phillip A. Nicholls, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. (1990) (0)
- A judicial monster and its creators (1998) (0)
- Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xv+376. ISBN 0-7546-3933-9. £60.00 (hardback). (2007) (0)
- Physiology and Experimental Medicine (2020) (0)
- Book Review:Medical Education in the Age of Improvement: Edinburgh Students and Apprentices, 1760-1826 Lisa Rosner (1993) (0)
- Ferriar's fever and Kay's cholera: disease and social structure in Cottonopolis. (1980) (0)
- ‘Science, Technology and Medicine in the United Kingdom, 1750-2000’, unpublished paper (2008). (2008) (0)
- Book Notes (1946) (0)
- Introduction (2011) (0)
- Observations on observations (2012) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1976) (0)
- Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne (eds.), Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+229. ISBN 0-521-43268-5. £35.00, $59.95. (1998) (0)
- Helga Nowotny.Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future. Translated byMitch Cohen. (Inside Technology). 168 pp. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Spreading Germs: Disease, Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 Michael Worboys (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Guenter B. Risse (1987) (0)
- The Rule of Ignoarance: A Polemic on Medicine, English Health Policy and History (2011) (0)
- Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940: Medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940 (2002) (0)
- Short Notices of Books (1979) (0)
- Science, Technolgy and Medicine in Britain, 1750-2000 (2009) (0)
- Continuing in Trust (1998) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Medical Education at St Bartholomew's Hospital 1123-1995 Keir Waddington (2004) (0)
- Hospitals Analyzed (1991) (0)
- World Kidney Forum Early Dialysis in Britain: Leeds and Beyond (2011) (0)
- News, Notes, and Queries (1988) (0)
- Eloge (2015) (0)
- S. E. D. Shortt. Victorian Lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 207. ISBN 0-521-30999-9. Price £25.00, $29.95. (1988) (0)
- Medical Knowledge and the Power of Physicians from the Industrial Revolution to the Post Industrial State: the Case of Manchester (in FRENCH) (2011) (0)
- Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine (2012) (0)
- Epilogue Toward a History of Western Knowledges Sketching Together the Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences (2014) (0)
- Medical Technology and Industrial Dynamics: The United States and the Global Market (2007) (0)
- History and practice in medicine Jacalyn Duffin Clio in the Clinic: Hi (2006) (0)
- Locating Dutrochet (1978) (0)
- M. Weatherall. In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 0-19-261747-8. £19.50. (1992) (0)
- F.K. Prochaska, Philanthropy and the Hospitals of London. The King's Fund, 1897–1990. Foreword by the Prince of Wales. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xi + 308pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. £35.00. (1994) (0)
- Frances Larson.An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World. xiv + 343 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $34.95 (cloth). (2012) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Islamic Inventiveness (2006) (0)
- Robert Bud, Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp ix+330. ISBN 978-0-19-954161-4. £16.99 (paperback). (2010) (0)
- The Industrial Development of British Hip Replacements and the Charnley/Thackray Relationship (2007) (0)
- Contested Cumulations: (2007) (0)
- The Social Study of Medicine (2007) (0)
- Introduction: ‘De Omni Scribili’ (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust, 1936-1986 A. Rupert Hall, B. A. Bembridge (1988) (0)
- Guenter B. Risse, Hospital life in enlightenment Scotland: care and teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Cambridge History of Medicine. (Cambridge University Press, 1986.) Pages xiv + 450. £35.00 hardback. (1987) (0)
- Unpublished Contribution to Book (2008) (0)
- Matthew Ramsay, Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770–1830. The Social World of Medical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 406. ISBN 0-521-30517-9. £35. (1993) (0)
- Surgeons and Engineers in Postwar Britain: Medical Technology in Local Contexts (2007) (0)
- The Changing Nature of Patients: Expectations and Information (2007) (0)
- Madness, Medicine and Social History. Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (2007) (0)
- Change and Stability in Technical Systems: Materials and Environments (2007) (0)
- United Kingdom (2020) (0)
- Hospitals analyzed. "The care of strangers: the rise of America's hospital system." By Charles Rosenberg. Essay review. (1991) (0)
- H. Floris Cohen, How Modern Science Came into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (2010) (2011) (0)
- Curing and Caring--The Long View (1999) (0)
- The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War, Nikolai Krementsov. University of Chicago Press (2002), £15·32 (US$26·00, €22·50), pp 280, ISBN: 0226452840 (2003) (0)
- What is Past is Present (2007) (0)
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