Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship, addressing professional, social and ethical issues through research from eleven countries.

This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative.

Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing the central issues in the field.

This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. Case studies include pasteurisation in Britain and the E coli outbreak.

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period.

This is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Spanning the Medieval period to the establishment of the National Health Service, this volume illuminates and informs current debates.

Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in the 20th century.

This selection of essays provides a valuable insight into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition in Britain.

This book, with articles from an international set of contributors, provides a scholarly social history of disability. The diverse nature of the material in this book will make it relevant to scholars interested in cultural, literary, social & political as well as medical history.

Taking forward the debate on the role of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850.

This is the first volume of essays devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.

This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research based, historical scrutiny. It examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years.

On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects.

Between August 1918 and March 1919, a flu pandemic spread across the globe. This book provides a history, and analyzes the British experiences during that time. It offers a tally of the pandemic's impact, including the vast mortality, as well as questions the apparent origins of the pandemic.

In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.

Presents the way in which the history of smoking among women raises complex questions about the construction of female identities in relation to smoking, and the implications of this for understanding smoking among women as a medical and public health problem.

Focusing on the field of disability history, this book explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveals the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.

Tackles the history of the terms "normal" and "abnormal". This book features essays that explore these concepts from the perspectives of academic disciplines - ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and anthropology. It also puts forward the ideas of philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and others.

Includes information on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane. This volume challenges scholarship, and focuses on a range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range of social sciences.

Offering a comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England, this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. It is intended for specialist historians, as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local studies.