Description
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.
Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24
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 Mﾄ｛ri Health
Katrina Ford
15. Re-writing the 窶櫓nglish disease窶�: Migration, Ethnicity and 窶狼ropical Rickets窶�
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 窶� 2000
Christoph Gradmann
22. Technology and the `Social Disease窶�
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窶冱 Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)
Brian Hurwitz
28. Digital Narratives: 4 窶路its窶� 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
