Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I The French Connection; 1. The Annales and Medical Historiography: Bilan et Perspectives; 2. Twenty Years On: Problems of Historical Methodology in the History of Health; 3. Montpellier Medical Students and the Medicalisation of 18th-Century France; 4. Popular Culture and Knowledge of the Body: Infancy and the Medical Anthropologist; II Medical History and Historical Demography
5. Methodological Problems in Modern Urban History Writing: Graphic Representations of Urban Mortality 1750-18506. No Death Without Birth:The Implications of English Mortality in the Early Modern Period; III Computers and the History of Institutions; 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Asylum; 8. Hospital History: New Sources and Methods; IV The Qualitative and the Quantitative; 9. Madness, Suicide, and the Computer; 10. Interfaces: Perceptions of Health and Illness in Early Modern England; Index