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

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Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Mathias Dörries
January 20, 2016

This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of a modern healthy diet and trace ...

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000

1st Edition

Edited By J T H Connor, Stephen Curtis
January 20, 2016

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....

Modern German Midwifery, 1885–1960

1st Edition

By Lynne Fallwell
January 20, 2016

Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell’s study explores this ...

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

1st Edition

By Heather R Beatty
January 20, 2016

This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in ...

The Care of Older People: England and Japan, A Comparative Study

1st Edition

By Mayumi Hayashi
January 20, 2016

Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms....

The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

1st Edition

By Barry M Doyle
January 20, 2016

Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a combination of voluntary and municipal provision....

Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945

1st Edition

Edited By Nathalie Jas, Soraya Boudia
January 20, 2016

The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use....

War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793–1830

1st Edition

By Catherine Kelly
January 20, 2016

This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century....

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

1st Edition

Edited By Janet Greenlees, Linda Bryder
January 20, 2016

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years....