Mark Jackson, The Routledge history of disease, 2016.
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. The book is divided into four sections, focusing in turn on historical models of disease, shifting temporal and geographical patterns of disease, the impact of new technologies on categorizing, diagnosing and treating disease, and the different ways in which patients and practitioners, as well as novelists and playwrights, have made sense of their experiences of disease in the past.
International in scope, chronologically wide-ranging and illustrated with images and maps, this comprehensive volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of health through the ages.
Table of Contents
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