Medical History Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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 June 30th 2011 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia

   Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914

   By Charlotte E. Henze

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Forensic Medicine in Western Society

   A History

   By Katherine D. Watson

   The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
9. Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition

   Edited by Peter Pormann

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Islam developed over the course of its history one of the world’s most innovative and interesting scientific and medical traditions. In this context, the term Islam should not simply be understood as referring to the religion of the prophet Muhammad, but rather to a civilization which was once...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet

    By Frances Garrett

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. It...

    Published April 24th 2008 by Routledge