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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(3):646-649; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp185
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Commentary: From history of medicine to a general history of ‘working knowledges’

John V Pickstone

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

E-mail: john.pickstone@manchester.ac.uk

Accepted 9 March 2009

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For teachers of history of medicine, few papers have proved more useful than Jewson's essay on the Disappearance of the Sick Man1 and its companion piece on Eighteenth-Century Patronage.2

The Disappearance has provided structure for many survey courses in history of medicine, at least for Britain. In a convenient form, if not the easiest of language, it underlined the crucial role of the Paris hospitals after the Revolution, thus linking with the work of Michel Foucault on the ‘Birth of the Clinic’.3 Through Althusser and through Foucault, it linked with the French tradition in history and philosophy of science, but also with the work of Owsei Temkin, Erwin Ackerknecht and the other European émigrés who in the USA had established history of medicine as a sophisticated aspect of the history of ideas (and the cultured sibling of post-war American history of science).

Unlike Foucault, however, Jewson set out the social . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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