The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.
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 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
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.
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine
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
