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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

ISBN: 9780199668397 | 0199668396
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/7/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 debatesabout 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

1. Introduction, Mark Jackson
PART ONE: PERIODS
2. Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world, Philip van der Eijk
3. Medieval medicine, Peregrine Horden
4. Early modern medicine, Thomas Rutten
5. Health and medicine in the Enlightenment, E. C. Spary
6. Medicine and modernity, Roger Cooter
7. Contemporary history of medicine and health, Virginia Berridge
PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS
8. Global and local histori... MORE

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 2013.

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