The Routledge History of DiseaseThe 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 |
Contents
Perspectives on the history of disease | 1 |
Models | 19 |
Humours and humoral theory | 21 |
Models of disease in ayurvedic medicine | 38 |
Religion magic and medicine | 54 |
Contagion | 71 |
Emotions and mental illness | 89 |
Deviance as disease the medicalization of sex and crime | 109 |
Disability and prosthetics in eighteenth and early nineteenthcentury England | 301 |
Disease rehabilitation and pain | 320 |
From paraffin to PIP the surgical search for the perfect breast | 335 |
Cancer screening | 358 |
Medical bacteriology microbes and disease 18702000 | 378 |
Technology and the social disease | 402 |
Reorganising chronic disease management diabetes and bureaucratic technologies in postwar British general practice | 420 |
Before HIV venereal disease among homosexually active men in England and North America | 439 |
Patterns | 127 |
Pandemics | 129 |
Patterns of animal disease | 147 |
Patterns of plague in late medieval and earlymodern Europe | 165 |
Symptoms of Empire cholera in Southeast Asia 18201850 | 183 |
Disease geography and the market epidemics of cholera in Tokyo in the late nineteenth century | 202 |
Histories and narratives of yellow fever in Latin America | 221 |
Race disease and public health perceptions of Māori health | 239 |
Rewriting the English disease migration ethnicity and tropical rickets | 257 |
Social geographies of sickness and health in contemporary Paris toward a human ecology of mortality in the 2003 heat wave disaster | 279 |
Technologies | 299 |
Narratives | 459 |
Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages | 461 |
French medical consultations by mail 16001800 | 474 |
The clinical narratives of James Parkinsons Essay on the Shaking Palsy 1817 | 491 |
Digital narratives four hits in the history of migraine | 512 |
Case notes and madness | 529 |
Literature and disease a novel contagion | 547 |
When bodies need stories in pictures | 565 |
Living in the present illness phenomenology and wellbeing | 581 |
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