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1. Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

   A Dark Epilogue

   By Niall Johnson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.The book provides the most...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

   Bodies, Images and Experiences

   Edited by David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

   Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

   By Waltraud Ernst

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Shaping Sexual Knowledge

   A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe

   Edited by Lutz Sauerteig, Roger Davidson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality....

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media

   Producing Health in the Twentieth Century

   Edited by Virginia Berridge, Kelly Loughlin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. Taking a broad...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850

   Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom

   Edited by Pamela Dale, Joseph Melling

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

   By Helen M. Sweet, with Rona Dougall

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. New Directions in Nursing History

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Susan McGann, Barbara Mortimer

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address: the issues of...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sex, Sin and Suffering

   Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

   Edited by Roger Davidson, Lesley A. Hall

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

    New Perspectives

    Edited by David Killingray, Howard Phillips

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge