History of Medicine Books

New and Published Books

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. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

   Imagining Physical Impairment

   By David M. Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

   Symptoms of Empire

   By Ishita Pande

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries

   Historical Perspectives

   Edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

   Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision,...

   Published February 22nd 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. 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
9. 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
10. 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