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Reassessing Foucault
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and …
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
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 …
Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968
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. Yet the complex and …
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe
Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the …
Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to …
Migrants, Minorities & Health
How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and …
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and …
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine …
Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000
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 …
Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical …
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
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 …
Health and the Modern Home
Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, …