A global history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Mark, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

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Summary:

In recent decades, there has been considerable interest in writing histories of medicine that capture local, regional, and global dimensions of health and health care in the same frame. Exploring changing patterns of disease and different systems of medicine across continents and countries, A Global History of Medicine provides a rich introduction to this emergent field. The introductory chapter addresses the challenges of writing the history of medicine across space and time and suggests ways in which tracing the entangled histories of the patchworks of practice that have constituted medicine allows us to understand how healing traditions are always plural, permeable, and shaped by power and privilege. Written by scholars from around the world and accompanied by suggestions for further reading, the individual chapters are adapted from The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, and explore historical developments in health, medicine, and disease in China, Islam, North and Latin America, Africa, South-east Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. The final chapter focuses on smallpox eradication and reflects on the sources and methods necessary to integrate local and global dimensions of medicine more effectively. Collectively, the contributions to A Global History of Medicine will not only be invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking to expand their knowledge of health and medicine across time, but will also provide a constructive theoretical and empirical platform for future scholarship. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 One World, One Health? Towards a Global History of Medicine / Mark Jackson Jackson, Mark 1

2 Chinese Medicine / Vivienne Lo Lo, Vivienne, Michael Stanley-Baker Stanley-Baker, Michael 19

3 Medicine in Western Europe / Harold J. Cook Cook, Harold J. 44

4 Medicine in Islam and Islamic Medicine / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz 69

5 History of Medicine in Eastern Europe, Including Russia / Marius Turda Turda, Marius 96

6 Public Health and Medicine in Latin America / Anne-Emanuelle Birn Birn, Anne-Emanuelle 118

7 Science and Medicine in the United States of America / Edmund Ramsden Ramsden, Edmund 149

8 Medicine and Colonialism in South Asia since 1500 / Mark Harrison Harrison, Mark 173

9 History of Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa / Lyn Schumaker Schumaker, Lyn 195

10 History of Medicine in Australia and New Zealand / Linda Bryder Bryder, Linda 220

11 Global and Local Histories of Medicine: Interpretative Challenges and Future Possibilities / Sanjoy Bhattacharya Bhattacharya, Sanjoy 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780192524683

0192524682

Publisher Number:

99976641139

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.