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    “Framing” the End of the Social History of Medicine Roger Cooter -Apartirom involving me n something costo wring my own itu ming the endothe soci story of medicine df forthe sinpeeson that he subeiscpine' ol ino the gave was far fom obvious oe stalghorard. The end wasmore inthe manne, erly, of pasing—asageish, uneven mel ‘down, nowhere much otc or commented on Ended, the walking dead ae stllmanyamongus: expt “sd” stores of medicine continue oe wnt ‘en and undergraduate cure in the soc tryof mene oto meron 2 journal by the name) contin tobe subserbe to, This se Decase, In vn Chases Rosenbergthe seknowedged doyen of the Beld~peopoed he ‘anshment othe soc” nthe soca story of meacine ana Ws replacement ‘vith "the fame. The subeiaton was widely endorss® Homer, theo Prose motives for at wel the unexpresied ones wl come 0) were at ferent rom the Rseigzaphical ones tat mig ave ee pod, Thus, the actual ending ofthe soc history of medicine was obscure a the sae meas the teal ending was (a that ote sense ofthe wont) ame” Such ay ‘contention. Tis hape,thetelore, mainly concerned ith he wider contest forthe demise ofthe soc” inthe History of medcine—th what might be sled hough wish imply no conspec)the taming eam ‘hat our concern has to do with more than merely he substtton of words frst beeame apparent tome nthe mid19905 when wat approached owt socal hry of mene, The prospect wa entcing. Here would be achance © pl together some ofthe many lfeent themes tht Rad come to comprise the ‘ie te pois of profestnaliation,altemate healing the stay of patent marates, elle satepes,conicons of sexuality an gender, made, eance sass end sbi, pubic ath and piste pat, etic, ep emiciogy, experieatation and edseton, topical mene an iniperit, long with the vious stl and hetorilreitions betwen edie and wae, medicine and teehaoogy, medicine ana, din and literature, and 500, More than that, the book would afford an opportunity under such headings, ‘chapter by chapter to erie how over the pt two or hee decades, sore and hstrogaphical understancings ha boacene, sharpened, and deepen ‘here was ned for such book and there probably sls But when pen cameo pape prasssetin. The problem was’ the sire ofthe literate involved, foumsaable hough they ad become, Rathe ws oct ature of an ned fo, te ovr packaging. A saci! of mn? Ia 3992, Andee Weat ova deca natithad“come of ag to which LidailJondanors roundly responded thait was sli inte” What eaused my pen to fae, though, was the relation tat somehow, someeralong the wan the 1980 and 1990 the ey wor had ost hele ‘certainty of meaning, and some pace Rosenberg) ha even Been these wth ‘ecison.Nolonercouleybetaken for ranted “history”and"mediin no ess than the soca" had become deeply problematic The hinge the tpych wre sting up and coming untick; hlorlogaphiy, the whole was no Tonge he sum of elemental parts, Sch a elation was more than tle worrying pois nasmch as the imple ss of spina coherence coud ‘only sib theca, not seit, thst of sn etepuie that had been -honedover the previous qusre-To arrive thi conchnonn no way nee dicarlng Fv nights om the ral ole of modem medal lnguageand pace a8 medium forthe policing and se poling of odes and estes Reque, they, ‘arcing ere ovlgar histones of meal surellane soca conta and the

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