Routledge History of Disease

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Exeter. His publications include The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2013), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), Asthma: The Biography (2009), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000 (ed., 2002), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), and Newborn Child Murder (1996).

"Encompassing an astonishing array of places, periods and pestilences, The Routledge History of Disease demonstrates indubitably how useful and fundamental disease is as a lens through which to view and understand human history. Essential reading for historians and health professionals alike."Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK"This book captures much of what has made the history of medicine one of the most innovative historical fields in recent decades. Its contributors respond to one of the key challenges posed to scholars in this field through case studies which are sweeping in chronology and geography and confidently demonstrate that medical knowledge is framed by the social, economic, political and cultural, and not merely biological factors."Jonathan Reinarz, University of Birmingham, UK

• List of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgements List of contributors1. Perspectives on the History of DiseaseMark JacksonPart One: Models2. Humours and Humoral TheoryJim Hankinson3. Models of Disease in Ayurvedic MedicineDominik Wujastyk4. Religion, Magic and MedicineCatherine Rider5. ContagionMichael Worboys6. Emotions and Mental Illness Elena Carrera7. Deviance as Disease: The Medicalization of Sex and CrimeJana FunkePart Two: Patterns8. Pandemics Mark Harrison9. Patterns of Animal DiseaseAbigail Woods10. Patterns of Plague in Late Medieval and Early-Modern EuropeSamuel Cohn11. Symptoms of Empire: Cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850Robert Peckham12. Disease, Geography, and the Market: Epidemics of Cholera in Tokyo in the Late Nineteenth CenturyAkihito Suzuki13. Histories and Narratives of Yellow Fever in Latin AmericaMonica Garcia14. Race, Disease and Public Health: Perceptions of Māori HealthKatrina Ford15. Re-writing the ‘English disease’: Migration, Ethnicity and ‘Tropical Rickets’Roberta Bivins16. Social Geographies of Sickness and Health in Contemporary Paris: Toward a Human Ecology of Mortality in the 2003 Heat Wave Disaster Richard KellerPart Three: Technologies 17. Disability and Prosthetics in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century EnglandDavid Turner18. Disease, Rehabilitation and PainJulie Anderson19. From Paraffin to PIP: Th