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Books in the Social Histories of Medicine series

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  • - Space, Identity and Power
     
    £77.99

    This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean. -- .

  • - A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy
    by James Moran
    £27.49 - 73.49

    This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .

  • - Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain
     
    £27.49

    The National Health Service determines how Briton's receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation. -- .

  • - A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain
    by Jill Kirby
    £23.49 - 73.49

    By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

  • - From England to the Mediterranean
     
    £77.99

    This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives. -- .

  • - The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control
     
    £77.99

    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts. -- .

  • - Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
     
    £27.49

    This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

  • - Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts
     
    £50.99

    This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus is on medical practitioners and their place in Irish society. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on early modern medicine. -- .

  • - Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War
    by Gareth Millward
    £27.49

    Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable. -- .

  • by Alannah Tomkins
    £73.49

    Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. -- .

  • - A Global History
     
    £77.99

    Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

  • - Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70
    by Caroline Rusterholz
    £27.49

    Women''s medicine highlights British female doctors'' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors'' agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders.

  • - Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500-2000
     
    £73.49

    Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world. -- .

  • - Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century
     
    £27.49

    Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. -- .

  • - Perspectives on Audiences and Impact
     
    £73.49

    Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities. -- .

  • by Joris Vandendriessche
    £73.49

    This book analyses how nineteenth-century doctors gathered in medical societies to discuss, evaluate, publish and celebrate their studies. It reveals how the codes of conduct that regulated scientific practice corresponded to the values of social engagement, polite debate and a free press of the urban bourgeoisie. -- .

  • - South Asian Doctors and the Reinvention of British General Practice (1940s-1980s)
    by Julian Simpson
    £15.49 - 73.49

    Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

  • - Bodies and Environments in Italy and England
     
    £66.99

    Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries. -- .

  • - Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
    by Stephen (Postdoctoral research fellow) Snelders
    £73.49

    Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .

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