Harvey's Contemporaries—Science and Society

Willis R . The works of William Harvey, M.D., translated. London: The Sydenham Society 1847. For introduction to ‘De Generatione’, 151–167.

Spedding J Ellis RL Heath DD , editors. The works of Francis Bacon. London: 1857–74.

Russell B . The problems of philosophy. Home University Library: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1932.

Russell B . An outline of philosophy. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1927: Chapters VII and XXV.

Russell B . History of Western philosophy. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1947: Chapter VII for Bacon.

Russell B . The wisdom of the West. London: Macdonald and Co. 1959: 190–193.

Mill JS . A system of logic etc. London: Longman 1970: Book III, Of Induction.

Keynes G . The life of William Harvey. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1966. The best biography, with good description of contemporary medicine from orthodox standpoint.

Keynes G . The personality of William Harvey. Cambridge University Press 1949.

Keynes G . Bacon, Harvey and the originators of the Royal Society. The Wilkins Lecture 1967. Proceedings of the Royal Society 1967, Series B; 169: 1–16.

Chauvois L . William Harvey. London: Hutchinson Medical Publications 1957. Lively and original.

Keele KD . William Harvey, the man, the physician and the scientist. London: Nelson 1965; 103 ff. for Harvey's scientific method.

Wightman WPD . The emergence of scientific medicine. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1971. Chapter 6 for Harvey's scientific method and traditionalism.

Wedgewood CV . The King's war. London: Collins Fontana 1971.

Firth CH . Oliver Cromwell. London: Putnam 1934 Wolfe DM . ed. Leveller manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1944.

Sabine GH . The works of Gerrard Winstanley with an appendix of documents relating to the Digger Movement. New York: Russell and Russell Inc. 1965.

Hill C . The world turned upside down. London: Temple Smith 1972. Also Pelican Books 1980. Section on Divinity, Law, Medicine. A chief source and probable classic.

Hill C . Editor, The law of freedom and other writings by Gerrard Winstanley, with introduction by Christopher Hill. Penguin books 1973.

Brailsford HN . The Levellers and the English Revolution, ed. Hill C. . London: The Cresset Press 1961.

Brockway F . Britain's first socialists. London: Quartet Books 1980. A useful general review with bibliography.

Aylmer GE . Editor, The Levellers in the English Revolution. Thomas and Hudson 1965.

Webster C . The Great Instauration: science, medicine and reform 1626–1660. London: Duckworth 1975. A magisterial work and the chief source, especially chapters III The advancement of learning and IV The prolongation of life.

Webster C . English medical reformers of the Puritan Revolution. Ambix 1961; 14, 1: 16–41. A chief source.

Fein R . On measuring economic benefits of health programmes. Medical History and Medical Care, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust: Oxford University Press 1971, 183–184. For Petty and health economics.

Trevelyan GM . English Social History. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1944. For voluntary hospital movement.

Murray DS . Blueprint for health. London: George Allen and Unwin 1973. The plea for equity in detail.

Abel-Smith B . Health care in a cold economic climate. Lancet 1981; 1: 373–376. For relative cost-effectiveness.

Beckford PR . The N.H.S.: a view from America. The Practitioner 1980; 224: 831–832. For cost effectiveness and equity.

National Health Service Consultants Association. What's good about the N.H.S.? Discussion document Feb. 1981. Hon. Secretary Dr. Sam Baxter, Charing Cross Hospital, London. A topical defence of the National Health Service.

Cartwright FF . A social history of medicine. London: Longman Group Ltd. 1977. For antecedents and current problems of the National Health Service.

A service for patients: conclusions and recommendations of the Royal Commission's Report. London: H.M. Stationery Office 1979.

McGirr EM . From dogma to science? Harveian Oration 1979, Harveian Society of Edinburgh. Scott. Med. J. 1980; 25: 4–12. For role of science and the challenges of new influences.

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Kennedy I . The Reith Lectures ‘Unmasking medicine’. London: The Listener, B.B.C. Publications 1980.

Life and death and medicine. A Scientific American book, San Francisco: W H Freeman and Company 1973. For the collective ethic of medicine. Especially Chapter 1, White KL. The role of medicine in the life of modem man.

Lancet 1981; 1: 762. Leader, The ultimate in preventive medicine. Also 790, International physicians for the prevention of nuclear war.