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Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Takes a 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 book considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies on the professional development of district nursing.

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, this text presents an appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845.

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

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.

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 brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.

The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine. This volume considers risk and medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases of medical innovation, including X-rays, the pill and Thalidomide, in their respective contexts.

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.

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of racial and medical history.

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.

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.

This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.

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.

Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

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 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.

Examines the development of a view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. This book examines developments in Western Europe, and the relationships between Europe and the US. It is for public health professionals, and students of the history of medicine and of heath policy.

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.

This volume brings together cutting edge research by a number of international historians. The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power, economic constraint and cultural divides.

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.

Exposes the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of "the modern home" and "family" became implicated in the maintenance of health and in the aetiology and pathogenesis of diverse psychological and physical conditions.