The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offersnew directions for future scholarship. There are three sections:: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the historyof medicine.
Introduction; PART ONE: PERIODS; Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world; Medieval medicine; Early modern medicine; Health and medicine in the Enlightenment; Medicine and modernity; Contemporary history of medicine and health; PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS; Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities; Chinese medicine; Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine; Medicine in Western Europe; History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia; North America; Latin America; History of medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa; Medicine and colonialism in South Asia since 1500; History of medicine in Australia and New Zealand; PART THREE: THEMES AND METHODS; Childhood and adolescence; Medicine and old age; Death; Historical demography and epidemiology: the meta-narrative challenge; Chronic illness and disease history; Public health; The political economy of health care in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Health, work, and environment: a Hippocratic turn in medical history; History of science and medicine; Women, health, and medicine; Health and sexuality; Medicine and the mind; Medical ethics and the law; Medicine and species: one medicine, one history; Histories of heterodoxy; Oral testimony and the history of medicine; Medical films and television: alternative paths to the cultures of biomedicine;
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