History of Medicine Books

New and Published Books

1. Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

   By Tiffany Fawn Jones

   Series: African Studies

   In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Vaccinations and Public Concern in History

   Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception

   By Andrea Kitta

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

   Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The research on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

   International Perspectives, 1840-2010

   Edited by Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

   Adopting and Adapting Western Influences

   By Aya Takahashi

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52

   Alien Prescriptions?

   By Christopher Aldous, Akihito Suzuki

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams,...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

    A Medicine of Revolution

    By Kim Taylor

    Series: Needham Research Institute Series

    Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political,...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge