The Routledge history of disease

Abstract

"Presents 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"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents

Perspectives on the history of disease / Mark Jackson -- pt. I. Models -- Humours and humoral theory / Jim Hankinson -- Models of disease in ayurvedic medicine / Dominik Wujastyk -- Religion, magic and medicine / Catherine Rider -- Contagion / Michael Worboys -- Emotions and mental illness / Elena Carrera -- Deviance as disease : the medicalization of sex and crime / Jana Funke -- pt. II. Patterns -- Pandemics / Mark Harrison -- Patterns of animal disease / Abigail Woods -- Patterns of plague in late medieval and early-modern Europe / Samuel Cohn -- Symptoms of empire : cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850 / Robert Peckham -- Disease, geography, and the market : epidemics of cholera in Tokyo in the late nineteenth century / Akihito Suzuki -- Histories and narratives of yellow fever in Latin America / Monica Garcia -- Race, disease and public health : perceptions of Māori health / Katrina Ford -- Re-writing the "English disease" : migration, ethnicity and "tropical rickets" / Roberta Bivins -- Social geographies of sickness and health in contemporary Paris : toward a human ecology of mortality in the 2003 heat wave disaster / Richard Keller -- pt. III. Technologies -- Disability and prosthetics in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / David Turner -- Disease, rehabilitation and pain / Julie Anderson -- From paraffin to PIP : the surgical search for the perfect breast / Fay Bound Alberti -- Cancer screening / David Cantor -- Medical bacteriology : microbes and disease, 1870-2000 / Christoph Gradmann -- Technology and the "social disease" / Helen Bynum -- Reorganising chronic disease management : diabetes and bureaucratic technologies in post-war British general practice / Martin Moore -- Before HIV : venereal disease among homosexually active men in the Anglo-American world / Richard McKay -- pt. 4. Narratives -- Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages / Elma Brenner -- French medical consultations by mail, 1600-1800 / Robert Weston -- The clinical narratives of James Parkinson's Essay on the shaking palsy (1817) / Brian Hurwitz -- Digital narratives : four "hits" in the history of migraine / Katherine Foxhall -- Case notes and madness / Alannah Tomkins -- Literature and disease : a novel contagion / Sam Goodman -- When bodies need stories in pictures / Arthur Frank -- Living in the present : illness, phenomenology, and well-being / Havi Carel.