The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine [Hardcover]

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicinecelebrates 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 offers new 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 history of medicine.

1. Introduction,Mark Jackson
PART ONE: PERIODS
2. Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world,Philip van der Eijk
3. Medieval medicine,Peregrine Horden
4. Early modern medicine,Thomas Rutten
5. Health and medicine in the Enlightenment,E. C. Spary
6. Medicine and modernity,Roger Cooter
7. Contemporary history of medicine and health,Virginia Berridge
PART TWO: PLACES AND TRADITIONS
8. Global and local histories of medicine: interpretative challenges and future possiblities,Sanjoy Bhattacharya
9. Chinese medicine,Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker
10. Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine,Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
11. Medicine in Western Europe,Harold J. Cook
12. History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia,Marius Turda
13. North America,Edmulƒ(