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9780199546497

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-11-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicinecelebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the 'global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.

Author Biography


Mark Jackson was Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter between 2000 and 2010. He served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee between 2003 and 2008 and is currently Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History Funding Committee. He has taught modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy of science for over twenty years. His books include Newborn Child Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000, (ed., 2002), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), and Asthma: The Biography (2009). The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tablesp. x
List of Contributorsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Periods
Medicine and Health in the Graeco-Roman Worldp. 21
Medieval Medicinep. 40
Early Modern Medicinep. 60
Health and Medicine in the Enlightenmentp. 82
Medicine and Modernityp. 100
Contemporary History of Medicine and Healthp. 117
Places and Traditions
Global and Local Histories of Medicine: Interpretative Challenges and Future Possibilitiesp. 135
Chinese Medicinep. 150
Medicine in Islam and Islamic Medicinep. 169
Medicine in Western Europep. 190
History of Medicine in Eastern Europe, Including Russiap. 208
Science and Medicine in the United States of Americap. 225
Public Health and Medicine in Latin Americap. 243
History of Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africap. 266
Medicine and Colonialism in South Asia since 1500p. 285
History of Medicine in Australia and New Zealandp. 302
Themes and Methods
Childhood and Adolescencep. 321
Medicine and Old Agep. 338
Deathp. 355
Historical Demography and Epidemiology: The Meta-Narrative Challengep. 373
Chronic Illness and Disease Historyp. 393
Public Healthp. 411
The Political Economy of Health Care in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuriep. 429
Health, Work, and Environment: A Hippocratic Turn in Medical Historyp. 450
History of Science and Medicinep. 469
Women, Health, and Medicinep. 484
Health and Sexualityp. 503
Medicine and the Mindp. 524
Medical Ethics and the Lawp. 543
Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?p. 561
Histories of Heterodoxyp. 578
Oral Testimony and the History of Medicinep. 598
Medical Film and Television: An Alternative Path to the Cultures of Biomedicinep. 617
Indexp. 635
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