The Routledge History of Disease
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Book Description
The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present.
Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris, as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Perspectives on the History of Disease
Mark Jackson
Part One: Models
2. Humours and Humoral Theory
Jim Hankinson
3. Models of Disease in Ayurvedic Medicine
Dominik Wujastyk
4. Religion, Magic and Medicine
Catherine Rider
5. Contagion
Michael Worboys
6. Emotions and Mental Illness
Elena Carrera
7. Deviance as Disease: The Medicalization of Sex and Crime
Jana Funke
Part Two: Patterns
8. Pandemics
Mark Harrison
9. Patterns of Animal Disease
Abigail Woods
10. Patterns of Plague in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Europe
Samuel Cohn
11. Symptoms of Empire: Cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850
Robert Peckham
12. Disease, Geography, and the Market: Epidemics of Cholera in Tokyo in the Late Nineteenth Century
Akihito Suzuki
13. Histories and Narratives of Yellow Fever in Latin America
Monica Garcia
14. Race, Disease and Public Health: Perceptions of Māori Health
Katrina Ford
15. Re-writing the ‘English disease’: Migration, Ethnicity and ‘Tropical Rickets’
Roberta Bivins
16. Social Geographies of Sickness and Health in Contemporary Paris: Toward a Human Ecology of Mortality in the 2003 Heat Wave Disaster
Richard Keller
Part Three: Technologies
17. Disability and Prosthetics in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century England
David Turner
18. Disease, Rehabilitation and Pain
Julie Anderson
19. From Paraffin to PIP: Th
Author(s)
Biography
Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Exeter. His publications include The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2013), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), Asthma: The Biography (2009), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000 (ed., 2002), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), and Newborn Child Murder (1996).
Reviews
"Encompassing an astonishing array of places, periods and pestilences, The Routledge History of Disease demonstrates indubitably how useful and fundamental disease is as a lens through which to view and understand human history. Essential reading for historians and health professionals alike."
Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK
"This book captures much of what has made the history of medicine one of the most innovative historical fields in recent decades. Its contributors respond to one of the key challenges posed to scholars in this field through case studies which are sweeping in chronology and geography and confidently demonstrate that medical knowledge is framed by the social, economic, political and cultural, and not merely biological factors."
Jonathan Reinarz, University of Birmingham, UK