Medical History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16

   Edited by Lodewijk C. Palm

   In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712. The letters were written to six distinct addressees. The larger part was addressed to the Royal Society in London in general (sixteen...

   Published April 4th 2013 by CRC Press
2. 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
3. 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
4. Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

   Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

   By Waltraud Ernst

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific

   Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. Nanomedicine in Health and Disease

   Edited by Ross J. Hunter, Victor R. Preedy

   The nanosciences are a rapidly expanding field of research with a wide applicability to all areas of health and disease prevention. This book, covers the regulation of nanomedicine, nanotubes, topical applications of nanoparticles, nanocrystals, antioxidant nanoparticles, lipid nanocapsules,...

   Published August 9th 2011 by Science Publishers
9. The Evolution of Chinese Medicine

   Song Dynasty, 960–1200

   By Asaf Goldschmidt

   Series: Needham Research Institute Series

   The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth...

   Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Public Health in Asia and the Pacific

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

    The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge