Medicine on a Grand Scale”: Rudolf Virchow, Liberalism, and the Public Health
“Medicine on a Grand Scale”: Rudolf Virchow, Liberalism, and the Public Health Ian F McNeely The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London Occasional Publication, No. 1 ISBN 0-85484-082-6 © The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2002 © Ian F. McNeely, 2014 The Wellcome Trust is a registered charity, no. 210183 All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any way or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission. Cover: Photograph of Rudolf Virchow by W Fechner, Wellcome Library, London. Used by permission. Contents Acknowledgements 4 Chapter 1 Medicine, Politics, and Liberalism in the Career of Rudolf Virchow 5 Chapter 2 Virchow’s Revolutionary Years: Medicine and Politics as Liberal Social Science 12 Chapter 3 Virchow and the Canalization of Berlin: the Promise of Urban Liberalism 32 Chapter 4 Virchow in Parliament: the Frustrations of National Health Politics 50 Chapter 5 Virchow and the Legacy of German Liberalism 64 Abbreviations 70 Notes 71 Bibliography 88 Index 95 Acknowledgements This little book originated as my 1992 honours thesis at Harvard. I thank the Wellcome Trust Centre for enabling me to publish it, in updated form, ten years later. I would also like to recognize those who encouraged me, personally and intellectually, along the way: Jeff Richter, Nathan Stoltzfus, Kevin Bolan, Michael Sang Yun Kim, Bob Berle, Patricia Lynch, John Patterson, Andrew Scull, and Lisa Wolverton. The Harvard Center for European Studies generously funded my research in Berlin.
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