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Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker April 10, In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.

Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris March 10, Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe February 18, The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.

Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life.

Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public Turner, Kevin Stagg August 08, Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history.

It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. Lutz Sauerteig, Roger Davidson October 10, The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health.

Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality. Virginia Berridge, Kelly Loughlin October 01, This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years.

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Producing Health in the Twentieth Century 1st Edition. Smith January 21, This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. By Joseph Melling , Bill Forsythe. The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national….

Edited by Steve Sturdy. Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public….

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Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways…. This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.

Edited by Lutz Sauerteig , Roger Davidson. The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality. Edited by Virginia Berridge , Kelly Loughlin. This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny.

Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. Edited by Pamela Dale , Joseph Melling.

Taking forward the debate on the role and power 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 , including such things as the community, Poor…. Sweet , with Rona Dougall. This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century.

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Edited by Roger Davidson , Lesley A. This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'.

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Edited by David Killingray , Howard Phillips. The Spanish Influenza pandemic of was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find…. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly…. The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male practice, but about the changing, and varied,….

Edited by Roger Cooter. Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent.

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Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant…. Edited by Mark Jackson.

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This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural…. Edited by Colin Jones , Roy Porter. Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult.

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