Forthcoming History of Medicine Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Medical Marginality in South Asia

   Situating Subaltern Therapeutics

   Edited by David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both...

   To Be Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Abortion in England 1900-1967

   By Barbara Brookes

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications...

   To Be Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

   Edited by Valerie Fildes

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose...

   To Be Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ancient Medicine

   2nd Edition

   By Vivian Nutton

   The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

   To Be Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Social History of Healing in India

   De-Centring Indigenous Medicine

   By Projit Mukharji

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   This book re-connects the history of medicine with the social and political history of India. It analyzes the popular and subaltern healing practices in the region, and moves away from the view that a relatively homogenous and discrete set of practices, organized under the name of ‘indigenous’...

   To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States

   1850-1950

   By Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, T.V. Sekher

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   The book maps developments in public health, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities (and their patients) and the interaction between them. Two comparatively large states (Mysore and Travancore), considered ‘progressive’...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Irish Insanity 1800-2000

   Edited by Damien Brennan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present

    Edited by Sarah Toulalan, Kate Fisher

    The Routledge History of Sex and the Body is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. An expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing, this volume...

    To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge