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: The Surgical Search for the Perfect BreastFay Bound Alberti20. Cancer Screening David Cantor 21. Medical Bacteriology: Microbes and Disease, 1870 – 2000Christoph Gradmann22. Technology and the `Social Disease’Helen Bynum23. Reorganising Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes and Bureaucratic Technologies in Post-War British General PracticeMartin Moore24. Before HIV: Venereal Disease Among Homosexually Active Men in the Anglo-American WorldRichard McKayPart Four: Narratives25. Leprosy and Identity in the Middle AgesElma Brenner26. French Medical Consultations by Mail, 1600-1800Robert Weston27. The Clinical Narratives of James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)Brian Hurwitz28. Digital Narratives: 4 ‘Hits’ in the History of MigraineKatherine Foxhall29. Case Notes and MadnessAlannah Tomkins30. Literature and Disease: A Novel ContagionSam Goodman31. When Bodies Need Stories in PicturesArthur Frank32. Living in the Present: Illness, Phenomenology, and Well-beingHavi Carel Index