The 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 na...
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oapen-20.500.12657-464192022-04-26T11:14:52Z The Routledge History of Disease Jackson, Mark Abigail Woods Akihito Suzuki Alannah Tomkins Arthur W. Frank Brian Hurwitz Catherine Rider Christoph Gradmann contagion David Cantor David M. Turner Dominik Wujastyk disability Elena Carrera Elma Brenner Fay Bound Alberti Genetics Havi Carel Helen Bynum Jana Funke Julie Anderson Katherine Foxhall Katrina Ford Leprosy Mark Harrison Martin D. Moore Michael Worboys Mnica García Pandemic plague Richard A. McKay bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history The 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 2021-02-02T14:39:10Z 2021-02-02T14:39:10Z 2017 book ONIX_20210202_9781134857876_27 9781315543420 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46419 eng Routledge Histories Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315543420 10.4324/9781315543420 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 117ff831-0b26-4b78-97ac-ab6254ed524e 117ff831-0b26-4b78-97ac-ab6254ed524e 9781315543420 Routledge 636 open access |
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The 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 |
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