Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings which exist for eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death. It brings together the world of medical thought and the actual world shared by patients and practitioners.

This is the first detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England in the early years of the nineteenth century. It traces the emergence of this important medical tradition, and examines the forces that moved these medical ideas and techniques from one culture to another.

In this 1998 book Robert Aronowitz offers historical essays about how diseases change their meaning. By juxtaposing the history of different diseases, the author shows how values and interests have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions, and the patient's experience of illness.

Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics.

Combining women's history and the history of medicine, this book charts the history of wet nursing in America from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. It portrays changes in medical practice, social welfare, childrearing, and motherhood that caused wet nursing's decline.

Trauma - the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse - has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists and lay critics (and activists). The essays in this 2001 book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture between 1870-1930 in Europe and America.

Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French medical doctors gained a far-reaching influence over the political life of their country, serving as mayors on the local level and ranking second only to lawyers in parliament. This book explores the causes and significance of this phenomenon.

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves.

Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around voelkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology and health. Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this book analyses the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of the social and political tension of an industrialising empire.

Trauma - the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse - has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists and lay critics (and activists). The essays in this 2001 book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture between 1870-1930 in Europe and America.

This book provides a series of original studies of international health and welfare organisations between the Wars. It will interest students of international relations, social history, gender studies, history of science and medicine, as well as those concerned with international aid.

This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society. It is influenced by Foucault, by recent work in the history and sociology of science, by critical theory, and by cultural anthropology.

The advent of AIDS has led to a revival of interest in the historical relationship of disease to society. There now exists a new consciousness of AIDS and history, and of AIDS itself as an historic event. This is the starting-point of this collection of essays.

This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The Congolese people termed sleeping sickness the 'colonial disease'. This study examines why Belgian colonisation of the Congo, rather than benefiting the local population, exacerbated many diseases.

This collecion of essays on the social history of legal (or forensic) medicine explores the involvement of medical experts in legal proceedings and prison regimes in settings ranging frm colonial America and Enlightenment Germany to modern Britain and the USA.