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.
Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24
By:
Mark Jackson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.224kg
ISBN: 9780415720014
ISBN 10: 041572001X
Series: Routledge Histories
Pages: 618
Publication Date: 15 August 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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: The Surgical Search for the Perfect Breast Fay Bound Alberti 20. Cancer Screening David Cantor 21. Medical Bacteriology: Microbes and Disease, 1870 – 2000 Christoph Gradmann 22. Technology and the `Social Disease’ Helen Bynum 23. Reorganising Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes and Bureaucratic Technologies in Post-War British General Practice Martin Moore 24. Before HIV: Venereal Disease Among Homosexually Active Men in the Anglo-American World Richard McKay Part Four: Narratives 25. Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages Elma Brenner 26. French Medical Consultations by Mail, 1600-1800 Robert Weston 27. The Clinical Narratives of James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817) Brian Hurwitz 28. Digital Narratives: 4 ‘Hits’ in the History of Migraine Katherine Foxhall 29. Case Notes and Madness Alannah Tomkins 30. Literature and Disease: A Novel Contagion Sam Goodman 31. When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures Arthur Frank 32. Living in the Present: Illness, Phenomenology, and Well-being Havi Carel Index
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 for The Routledge History of Disease
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
