A Global History of Medicine

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. He has served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine and Research Resources funding committees, as Senior Academic Advisor (Medical Humanities) to the Wellcome Trust, and as a member of the History sub-panel for REF 2014. He has taught modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy of science for over thirty years at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to both medical and history students, and has been involved in teaching medical history to GCSE and A level students. His books include The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (2011), The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2012), Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945-85 (ed., 2015), and The Routledge History of Disease (ed., 2016). He is currently writing a book on the history of the midlife crisis.

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• 1: Mark Jackson: One world, one health? Towards a global history of medicine 2: Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker: Chinese medicine 3: Harold J. Cook: Medicine in Western Europe 4: Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine 5: Marius Turda: History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia 6: Anne-Emanuelle Birn: Public health and medicine in Latin America 7: Edmund Ramsden: Science and medicine in the United States of America 8: Mark Harrison: Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500 9: Lyn Schumaker: African studies and the history of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa 10: Linda Bryder: History of medicine in Australia and New Zealand 11: Sanjoy Bhattacharya: Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities