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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicinecelebrates 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 fir... MORE

List of Illustrations and Tables	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Periods
Medicine and Health in the Graeco-Roman World	p. 21
Medieval Medicine	p. 40
Early Modern Medicine	p. 60
Health and Medicine in the Enlightenment	p. 82
Medicine and Modernity	p. 100
Contemporary History of Medicine and ... MOREHealth	p. 117
Places and Traditions
Global and Local Histories of Medicine: Interpretative Challenges and Future Possibilities	p. 135
Chinese Medicine	p. 150
Medicine in Islam and Islamic Medicine	p. 169
Medicine in Western Europe	p. 190
History of Medicine in Eastern Europe, Including Russia	p. 208
Science and Medicine in the United States of America	p. 225
Public Health and Medicine in Latin America	p. 243
History of Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 266
Medicine and Colonialism in South Asia since 1500	p. 285
History of Medicine in Australia and New Zealand	p. 302
Themes and Methods
Childhood and Adolescence	p. 321
Medicine and Old Age	p. 338
Death	p. 355
Historical Demography and Epidemiology: The Meta-Narrative Challenge	p. 373
Chronic Illness and Disease History	p. 393
Public Health	p. 411
The Political Economy of Health Care in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centurie	p. 429
Health, Work, and Environment: A Hippocratic Turn in Medical History	p. 450
History of Science and Medicine	p. 469
Women, Health, and Medicine	p. 484
Health and Sexuality	p. 503
Medicine and the Mind	p. 524
Medical Ethics and the Law	p. 543
Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?	p. 561
Histories of Heterodoxy	p. 578
Oral Testimony and the History of Medicine	p. 598
Medical Film and Television: An Alternative Path to the Cultures of Biomedicine	p. 617
Index	p. 635
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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.

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