Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
About the Book Series
The social history of medicine has become recognized as a major field of historical enquiry. Aspects of health, disease, and medical care now attract the attention not only of social historians but also of researchers in a broad spectrum of historical and social science disciplines. The Society for the Social History of Medicine, founded in 1969, is an interdisciplinary body, based in Great Britain but international in membership. It exists to forward a wide-ranging view of the history of medicine, concerned equally with biological aspects of normal life, experience of and attitudes to illness, medical thought and treatment, and systems of medical care. Although frequently bearing on current issues, this interpretation of the subject makes primary reference to historical context and contemporary priorities. The intention is not to promote a sub-specialism but to conduct research according to the standards and intelligibility required of history in general.
In the Name of the Child
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Cooter
November 01, 2011
In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the crucial decades around the First World War when modern notions of `the child' were elaborated and widely institutionalised.In essays specially written for the book, the ...
Innovations in Health and Medicine: Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Stanton
May 31, 2002
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 ...
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Jones, Roy Porter
May 29, 1998
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, ...
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, Hans de Waardt
August 13, 1997
Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, ...
Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell
July 23, 1997
The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an ...