Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

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21. Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000

    Edited by Steve Sturdy

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public...

    Published September 11th 2002 by Routledge
22. Innovations in Health and Medicine

    Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Jenny Stanton

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology. The collection features issues such as control and...

    Published April 10th 2002 by Routledge
23. Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current...

    Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge
24. Contagion

    By Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and...

    Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge
25. Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century

    International and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jim Phillips, David F. Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those interested in science policy and the role of...

    Published December 20th 2000 by Routledge
26. Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration,...

    Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge
27. Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

    Edited by Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural...

    Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
28. Reassessing Foucault

    Power, Medicine and the Body

    Edited by Colin Jones, Roy Porter

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine,...

    Published April 29th 1998 by Routledge
29. The Locus of Care

    Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

    Edited by Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was...

    Published December 10th 1997 by Routledge
30. Midwives, Society and Childbirth

    Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period

    Edited by Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge