Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

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1. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment

   Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context

   Edited by James Moran, Leslie Topp, Jonathan Andrews

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
8. Women and Smoking since 1890

   By Rosemary Elliot

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male practice, but about the changing, and varied,...

   Published November 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. In the Name of the Child

   Edited by Roger Cooter

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968

    Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, David Wright

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant...

    Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge