Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.

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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 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 first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the 'global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.

Contents

1. Introduction
PART ONE: PERIODS
2. Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world
3. Medieval medicine
4. Early modern medicine
5. Health and medicine in the Enlightenment
6. Medicine and modernity
7. Contemporary history of medicine and health
PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS
8. Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities
9. Chinese medicine
10. Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine
11. Medicine in Western Europe
12. History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia
13. North America
14. Latin America
15. History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
16. Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500
17. History of medicine in Australia and New Zealand
PART THREE: THEMES AND METHODS
18. Childhood and adolescence
19. Medicine and old age
20. Death
21. Historical demography and epidemiology: the meta-narrative challenge
22. Chronic illness and disease history
23. Public health
24. The political economy of health care in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
25. Health, work, and environment: a Hippocratic turn in medical history
26. History of science and medicine
27. Women, health, and medicine
28. Health and sexuality
29. Medicine and the mind
30. Medical ethics and the law
31. Medicine and species: one medicine, one history
32. Histories of heterodoxy
33. Oral testimony and the history of medicine
34. Medical films and television: alternative paths to the cultures of biomedicine