Foundations of the neuron doctrine
Choice Reviews Online · 1992
Reviewssocial conditions.Indeed, growing nationalist activities in the twentieth century led the government of India to operate its medical policies with and through this plural structure up to independence.Others might wish to paint a different picture in which Western medicine and the European model was both more dominant and more contested, yet Bala offers considerable food for thought and new ideas to test in the future.The constraint on size means that this study is not as empirically strong as it might have been.Also, at several points it relies on a dated, if not inaccurate, picture of the professional, cognitive and practical development of medicine in Britain.For example, the impact of the public health movement within medicine is overstated, and the important recent work on the ideological rather than practical roles of science in medicine has not been taken on board.That said, Bala does provide further comparative support for those historians who have stressed the importance of the wider social, economic and political context in shaping the social organization of medical practice.In addition, her study takes the history of professionalization into the twentieth century and discusses the influence of the growing industrialization of medicine on education, organization and practice.