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Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine


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The social history of medicine has become recognized as a major field of historical enquiry. Aspects of health, disease, and medical care now attract the attention not only of social historians but also of researchers in a broad spectrum of historical and social science disciplines. The Society for the Social History of Medicine, founded in 1969, is an interdisciplinary body, based in Great Britain but international in membership. It exists to forward a wide-ranging view of the history of medicine, concerned equally with biological aspects of normal life, experience of and attitudes to illness, medical thought and treatment, and systems of medical care. Although frequently bearing on current issues, this interpretation of the subject makes primary reference to historical context and contemporary priorities. The intention is not to promote a sub-specialism but to conduct research according to the standards and intelligibility required of history in general.

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Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context

Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context

1st Edition

Edited By James Moran, Leslie Topp, Jonathan Andrews
December 09, 2011

This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly ...

Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century International and Comparative Perspectives

Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Jim Phillips, David F. Smith
January 20, 2016

This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those interested in science policy and the role of ...

Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic A Dark Epilogue

Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue

1st Edition

By Niall Johnson
June 29, 2015

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 ...

Health and the Modern Home

Health and the Modern Home

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Jackson
April 23, 2015

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, contributors expose the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of "the modern home" and "...

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities

1st Edition

Edited By Anne Digby, David Wright
December 01, 2014

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the ...

Midwives, Society and Childbirth Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period

Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period

1st Edition

Edited By Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty
December 01, 2014

Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, ...

Nutrition in Britain Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Nutrition in Britain: Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

Edited By David Smith
December 01, 2014

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The ...

The Locus of Care Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

1st Edition

Edited By Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith
December 01, 2014

The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was ...

Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830

Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830

1st Edition

By Leonard Smith
April 24, 2014

Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the ...

Contagion

Contagion

1st Edition

By Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker
April 09, 2014

In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and ...

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

1st Edition

Edited By Waltraud Ernst
April 09, 2014

Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current ...

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

1st Edition

Edited By Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris
March 07, 2014

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration,...

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