The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson.

"The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about m...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Oxford handbooks.
Other Authors: Jackson, Mark, 1959-
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Medicine > History.
History of Medicine.
Global Health.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents only - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xviii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world
  • Medieval medicine
  • Early modern medicine
  • Health and medicine in the Englightenment
  • Medicine and modernity
  • Contemporary history of medicine and health
  • Global and local histories of medicine : interpretative challenges and future possibilities
  • Chinese medicine
  • Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine
  • Medicine in western Europe
  • History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia
  • Science and medicine in the United States of America
  • Public health and medicine in Latin America
  • History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500
  • History of medicine in Australia and New Zealand
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Medicine and old age
  • Death
  • Historical demography and epidemiology : the meta-narrative challenge
  • Chronic illness and disease history
  • Public health
  • The political economy of health care in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Health, work, and environment : a Hippocratic turn in medical history
  • History of science and medicine
  • Health and sexuality
  • Medicine and the mind
  • Medican ethics and the law
  • Medicine and species : one medicine, one history?
  • Histories of heterodoxy
  • Oral testimony and the history of medicine
  • Medical film and television : an alternative path to the cultures of biomedicine.