Title The Routledge history of disease / edited by Mark Jackson

Published London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series The Routledge histories Routledge histories. Contents Part I. Models -- Part II. Patterns -- Part III. Technologies -- Part IV. Narratives The Routledge History of Disease; The Routledge Histories; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Table; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Perspectives on the History Of Disease; Framing Histories of Disease; Perspectives on Disease; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Part I Models; 2 Humours and Humoral Theory; The Idea of a Humour and the Origins of Element Theory; The Hippocratic Corpus: The Case of 'Ancient Medicine'; Bile and Phlegm; Black Bile; The Emergence of Constitutive Theories; The Galenic Synthesis; Afterlife; Notes; Select Bibliography 3 Models of Disease in Ayurvedic Medicine Primary Sources; The Equality of Humours; Affinity; Raw Residues; Errors of Judgement; Diseases of Body, Environment, and the Supernatural; Invasive Diseases; Epidemic Disease; Contagion; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 4 Religion, Magic and Medicine; Defining Religious, Magical and Medical Understandings of Disease; Sources; Religious and Magical Explanations For Disease; Models of Cure; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 5 Contagion; Poxes Great and Small, 1500-1800; Yellow Fever, Cholera and Anticontagionism, 1700-1900; Germs, 1860-1900 Viruses, Vaccines and Antibiotics, 1900-60 Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 6 Emotions and Mental Illness; The Curable Insane in Public Institutions; The Passions as Causes of Insanity; The Passions as Cures For Insanity; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 7 Deviance as Disease: The Medicalization of Sex and Crime; Defining Deviance and Disease; Crime and Sex as Disease; Diagnostic Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Deviance; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Part II Patterns; 8 Pandemics; Pandemics in a World Before Risk Security and Uncertainty remaking Pandemics as Risk Phenomena; Pandemics and Globalization; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 9 Patterns of Animal Disease; Epizootic Diseases; Zoonotic Diseases; Other Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 10 Patterns of Plague in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Europe; Signs and Clinical Diagnosis; Symptoms; Seasonality and Epidemiology; Mentalities and Policies; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 11 Symptoms of Empire: Cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850; Shadow Imaginaries: Empire and Disease China and the World cholera and the Opium War; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 12 Disease, Geography and the Market: Epidemics of Cholera in Tokyo in the Late Nineteenth Century; Cholera and the Topography of Tokyo; Cholera and Public Health; Cholera, Regimen and Consumerism; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; 13 Histories and Narratives of Yellow Fever in Latin America; Historiographical Perspectives; Yellow Fever as an Historical Actor; The Politics of Yellow Fever; Themes and Methods; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Select Bibliography Summary "The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present." "Presents a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present"--Provided by the publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Electronic resource; title from "Read Online" table of contents page (ebrary website, viewed October 13, 2016) Subject Epidemics -- History Disease Outbreaks -- history HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. Epidemics Medizin Krankheit Genre/Form History Handbooks and manuals. Form Electronic book Author Jackson, Mark, 1959- editor. LC no. 2016004659 ISBN 113485787X 9781134857876

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