History of Medicine Books

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1. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

   By Marta Hanson

   This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing “Warm diseases” continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60253-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914

   By Charlotte E. Henze

   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...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-54794-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing

   Edited by Fabrizio Ferrari

   Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-56145-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-44772-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. A Social History of Healing in India: De-centring Indigenous Medicine

   By Projit Mukharji

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

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-49952-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Public Health and the US Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917

   By Bobby A. Wintermute

   Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-88170-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400

   By Irina Metzler

   This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58204-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

   By Ishita Pande

   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...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-77815-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Origins of Criminology: A Reader

   Edited by Nicole H. Rafter

   The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology – selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter. This book presents criminology as a unique field of study that...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-45112-3 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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    Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968

    Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, David Wright

    Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant...

    April 2009 | 978-0-415-96290-2 | Hardback (Routledge)