Locating Medical History

Frank Huisman is a professor in the history of medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Department of History at Maastricht University. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef and co-editor of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief. John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor and Chair of the History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of history and of American studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective and Against the Spirit of System.

Locating Medical History more than succeeds as, in the editors' words, 'an invitation to explore and reflect on a field-one that can include widely disparate senses of what medical history is, should be, and should do.' The volume contains several specialized and deeply theoretical essays intended for the medical historian, but any physician or researcher interested in the current status of the history of medicine will also enjoy and learn from it. -- Xavier Bosch Science 2005 The volume is exceptionally well edited and introduced and beautifully produced. -- Bill Luckin Medical History 2006 After this collection, there will no longer be any excuse for medical historians to pretend that their historical background is merely the 'doctors' histories' supposed once to have ruled the earth. This collection highlights much more interesting ancestries, making links with great traditions of scholarship since the Enlightenment, and with political traditions of both left and right. It includes many personal accounts and assessments which suggest how our disciplinary work can be related to wider goals within and beyond the academy. All historians of medicine should own a copy. Social History of Medicine 2005 A must read for every historian of nursing and student of nursing history. The essays capture the diversity and dynamism of healthcare in a coherent, engaging manner. Nursing History Review 2006 The volume has been excellently written and edited, while it is offering a wealth of references. Reading it I experienced as exciting, stimulating my imagination, challenging to approval or peevishness, inviting to rereading it in the near future. It is a very 'rich' volume, and most certainly a book that one ought to buy or to be given as a present. It is more than worth its price. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [A] virtue of the book, and the reason everyone should buy it, is that it attempts to be international and makes visible the work of several scholars who are not known or read by many English-speaking historians. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2006 A thoughtful and stimulating volume. -- Philip M. Teigen Isis 2006 Contain[s] a number of interesting essays by some of the most creative medical historians of our time. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2006

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Medical HistoriesPart I: TraditionsChapter 2. To Whom Does Medical History Belong? Johann Moehsen, Kurt Sprengel, and the Problem of Origins in Collective MemoryChapter 3. Charles Daremberg, His Friend Émile Littré, and Positivist Medical HistoryChapter 4. Bildung in a Scientific Age: Julius Pagel, Max Neuburger, and the Cultural History of MedicineChapter 5. Karl Sudhoff and ''the Fall'' of German Medical HistoryChapter 6. Ancient Medicine: From Berlin to BaltimoreChapter 7. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. SigeristPart II: A Generation ReviewedChapter 8. ''Beyond the Great Doctors'' Revisited: A Generation of the ''New'' Social History of MedicineChapter 9. The Historiography of Medicine in the United KingdomChapter 10. Social History of Medicine in Germany and France in the Late Twentieth Century: From the History of Medicine toward a History of HealthChapter 11. Trading Zones or Citadels? Professionalization and Intellectual Change in the History of MedicineChapter 12. The Power of Norms: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, and the History of MedicineChapter 13. Postcolonial Histories of MedicinePart III: After the Cultural TurnChapter 14. ''Framing'' the End of the Social History of MedicineChapter 15. The Social Construction of Medical KnowledgeChapter 16. Making Meaning from the Margins: The New Cultural History of MedicineChapter 17. Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights MovementChapter 18. Transcending the Two Cultures in Biomedicine: The History of Medicine and History in MedicineChapter 19. A Hippocratic Triangle: History, Clinician-Historians, and Future DoctorsChapter 20. Medical History for the General ReaderChapter 21. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health PolicyNotes on Contributors Index