History of Medicine Books

New and Published Books

1. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

   Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

   By Marta Hanson

   Series: Needham Research Institute Series

   This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Some Early and Later Houses of Pity (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   From around the eleventh century until the Reformation, a close connection between the Church and hospitals was formed as they became a refuge for the ill, ostracised and poor. First published in 1926, John Morrison Hobson presents a fascinating survey of the hospitals and almshouses found...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ancient Medicine

   2nd Edition

   By Vivian Nutton

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   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...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Interferon

    The Science and Selling of a Miracle Drug

    By Toine Pieters

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

    This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is part of the medical profession's armoury against viral infection, cancer and MS. The story of its development and use is one of survival in the face...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge