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In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explores medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
1 Mark Jackson: Introduction; PART ONE: PERIODS; 2 Philip van der Eijk: Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world; 3 Peregrine Horden: Medieval medicine; 4 Thomas Rutten: Early modern medicine; 5 E. C. Spary: Health and medicine in the Enlightenment; 6 Roger Cooter: Medicine and modernity; 7 Virginia Berridge: Contemporary history of medicine and health; PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS; 8 Sanjoy Bhattacharya: Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities; 9 Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker: Chinese medicine; 10 Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine; 11 Harold J. Cook: Medicine in Western Europe; 12 Marius Turda: History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia; 13 Edmund Ramsden: North America; 14 Anne-Emanuelle Birn: Latin America; 15 Lyn Schumaker: History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa; 16 Mark Harrison: Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500; 17 Linda Bryder: History of medicine i
Show moreIn three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explores medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
1 Mark Jackson: Introduction; PART ONE: PERIODS; 2 Philip van der Eijk: Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world; 3 Peregrine Horden: Medieval medicine; 4 Thomas Rutten: Early modern medicine; 5 E. C. Spary: Health and medicine in the Enlightenment; 6 Roger Cooter: Medicine and modernity; 7 Virginia Berridge: Contemporary history of medicine and health; PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS; 8 Sanjoy Bhattacharya: Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities; 9 Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker: Chinese medicine; 10 Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine; 11 Harold J. Cook: Medicine in Western Europe; 12 Marius Turda: History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia; 13 Edmund Ramsden: North America; 14 Anne-Emanuelle Birn: Latin America; 15 Lyn Schumaker: History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa; 16 Mark Harrison: Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500; 17 Linda Bryder: History of medicine i
Show more1: Mark Jackson: Introduction
PART ONE: PERIODS
2: Philip van der Eijk: Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman
world
3: Peregrine Horden: Medieval medicine
4: Thomas Rütten: Early modern medicine
5: E. C. Spary: Health and medicine in the Enlightenment
6: Roger Cooter: Medicine and modernity
7: Virginia Berridge: Contemporary history of medicine and
health
PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS
8: Sanjoy Bhattacharya: Global and local histories of medicine:
interpretative challenges and future possiblities
9: Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker: Chinese medicine
10: Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine
11: Harold J. Cook: Medicine in Western Europe
12: Marius Turda: History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including
Russia
13: Edmund Ramsden: North America
14: Anne-Emanuelle Birn: Latin America
15: Lyn Schumaker: History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
16: Mark Harrison: Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since
1500
17: Linda Bryder: History of medicine in Australia and New
Zealand
PART THREE: THEMES AND METHODS
18: Alysa Levene: Childhood and adolescence
19: Susannah Ottaway: Medicine and old age
20: Julie-Marie Strange: Death
21: Graham Mooney: Historical demography and epidemiology: the
meta-narrative challenge
22: Carsten Timmermann: Chronic illness and disease history
23: Christopher Hamlin: Public health
24: Martin Gorsky: The political economy of health care in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries
25: Christopher Sellers: Health, work, and environment: a
Hippocratic turn in medical history
26: Staffan Müller-Wille: History of science and medicine
27: Hilary Marland: Women, health, and medicine
28: Gayle Davis: Health and sexuality
29: Rhodri Hayward: Medicine and the mind
30: Andreas-Holger Maehle: Medical ethics and the law
31: Rob Kirk and Michael Worboys: Medicine and species: one
medicine, one history
32: Roberta Bivins: Histories of heterodoxy
33: Kate Fisher: Oral testimony and the history of medicine
34: Timothy Boon: Medical films and television: alternative paths
to the cultures of biomedicine
'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List 2018
Mark Jackson was Director of the Centre for Medical History at the
University of Exeter between 2000 and 2010. He served as Chair of
the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee between
2003 and 2008 and is currently Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research
Resources in Medical History Funding Committee. He has taught
modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy
of science for over twenty years. His books include Newborn
Child
Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Infanticide:
Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000,
(ed., 2002), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health
and the
Modern Home (ed., 2007), and Asthma: The Biography (2009). The Age
of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability is due to be
published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
Featured as an 'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List for
2018
Essays of almost uniformly high quality ... a scholarly history
*Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement*
The essays in turn can be prescriptive, descriptive, or analytical,
and they display the rich variety of approaches that medical
historians take when practising their
craft...brilliant...outstanding
*Bill Bynum, The Lancet*
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine provides an
ambitious, up-to-date and thought-provoking overview of the key
themes, methodologies and debates in medical history ... As a guide
to medical history, it is virtually flawless, meaning that the
volume's contributions will remain on academic reading lists for
decades to come.
*Dr Ian Miller, Reviews in History*
Whether you are a physician, other medical professional or simply
someone interested in the history of medicine, this is a key volume
to add to your collection. The amount of information in it is
immense, and it is well laid out and presented. We congratulate all
who played a part in putting it together.
*BIZINDIA, May 2013*
It should be an essential part of any research collection on the
field.
* Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *
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