Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
About the Book Series
Series Editors: David Cantor and Keir Waddington
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from antiquity to the present. The series is a collaboration between Routledge and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM). The SSHM has pioneered the social history of medicine and interdisciplinary approaches to the histories of medicine, welfare, public health, demography, anthropology, sociology, social administration and health economics, and the book series reflects these interests.
Submissions are invited from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author’s biography and an anticipated submission date to the editors.
Edited collections:
David Cantor: cantord @ mail.nih.gov
Authored monographs:
Keir Waddington: waddingtonK @ cardiff.ac.uk
Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By Anna Shepherd
October 14, 2024
The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system....
Psychiatry and Chinese History
1st Edition
By Howard Chiang
October 14, 2024
This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of ...
The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920�1945
1st Edition
By Josep L Barona
October 14, 2024
Based on extensive archival research, this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health, ...
Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
1st Edition
By Mark Jackson
February 07, 2017
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies....
The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century: Research for Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry
1st Edition
By Jean-Paul Gaudillière
February 07, 2017
The global pharmaceutical industry is currently estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Contributors chart the rise of scientific marketing within the industry from 1920-1980. This is the first comprehensive study into pharmaceutical marketing, demonstrating that many new techniques were actually ...
A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface
1st Edition
By Kevin Patrick Siena
January 21, 2016
Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century....
A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800–1950
1st Edition
By Ian Miller
January 21, 2016
This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework of ideas established in medicine related to gastric illness often reflected wider social issues including industrialization and the impact of ...
Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939
1st Edition
By Rosemary Wall
January 21, 2016
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge....
Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff, Bettina Wahrig
January 21, 2016
The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century....
Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood
1st Edition
By John Stewart
January 21, 2016
Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography....
Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970
1st Edition
By Ali Haggett
January 21, 2016
Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal....
Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979
1st Edition
By Anne Borsay
January 21, 2016
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries....