Practice of Reform in Medicine and Science: 1500-2000 Book

	Preface : 'for the improvement of all things'
1	The instauration of the image of God in man : humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform	1
2	Harmony, health, and healing : music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought	23
3	The economy of magic in early modern England	43
4	Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650	59
5	Politics, medicine, and masculinity : physicians and office-bearing in early modern England	81
6	A 'sanative contagion' : Henry More on faith healing	107
7	William Petty and Anne Greene : medical and political reform in Commonwealth Oxford	125
8	Between anatomy and politics : John Finch and Italy, 1649-1671	151
9	The origins of the Royal Society revisited	167
10	The 'great projector' : John Cary and the legacy of Puritan reform in Bristol, 1647-1720	185
11	Medicine, race, and radicalism in the later Scottish enlightenment	207
12	After the revolution : scientific language and French politics, 1795-1802	223
13	'Babies of the empire' : the evolution of infant welfare services in New Zealand and Britain in the first half of the twentieth century	247
14	Hospitals, regions, and central authority : issues in Scottish hospital planning, 1947-1974	263
15	Hospital provision, resource allocation, and the early National Health Service : The Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1947-1974	279
16	International recruitment of nurses to the UK : the history of the present	303
17	Professional status and professional regulation in the 1970s : the case of the Briggs Committee on Nursing and the Merrison Committee on the Regulation of the Medical Profession	315
18	New social movement or government-funded voluntary sector? : ASH (action on smoking and health), science, and anti-tobacco activism in the 1970s	333
	Select publications of Charles Webster	349