The Routledge History of Disease

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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

1. Perspectives on the History of Disease

Mark Jackson

Part One: Models

2. Humours and Humoral Theory

Jim Hankinson

3. Models of Disease in Ayurvedic Medicine

Dominik Wujastyk

4. Religion, Magic and Medicine

Catherine Rider

5. Contagion

Michael Worboys

6. Emotions and Mental Illness

Elena Carrera

7. Deviance as Disease: The Medicalization of Sex and Crime

Jana Funke

Part Two: Patterns

8. Pandemics

Mark Harrison

9. Patterns of Animal Disease

Abigail Woods

10. Patterns of Plague in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Europe

Samuel Cohn

11. Symptoms of Empire: Cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850

Robert Peckham

12. Disease, Geography, and the Market: Epidemics of Cholera in Tokyo in the Late Nineteenth Century

Akihito Suzuki

13. Histories and Narratives of Yellow Fever in Latin America

Monica Garcia

14. Race, Disease and Public Health: Perceptions of Maori Health

Katrina Ford

15. Re-writing the 'English disease': Migration, Ethnicity and 'Tropical Rickets'

Roberta Bivins

16. Social Geographies of Sickness and Health in Contemporary Paris: Toward a Human Ecology of Mortality in the 2003 Heat Wave Disaster

Richard Keller

Part Three: Technologies

17. Disability and Prosthetics in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century England

David Turner

18. Disease, Rehabilitation and Pain

Julie Anderson

19. From Paraffin to PIP: The Surgical Search for the Perfect Breast

Fay Bound Alberti

20. Cancer Screening

David Cantor

21. Medical Bacteriology: Microbes and Disease, 1870 - 2000

Christoph Gradmann

22. Technology and the `Social Disease'

Helen Bynum

23. Reorganising Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes and Bureaucratic Technologies in Post-War British General Practice

Martin Moore

24. Before HIV: Venereal Disease Among Homosexually Active Men in the Anglo-American World

Richard McKay

Part Four: Narratives

25. Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages

Elma Brenner

26. French Medical Consultations by Mail, 1600-1800

Robert Weston

27. The Clinical Narratives of James Parkinson's Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)

Brian Hurwitz

28. Digital Narratives: 4 'Hits' in the History of Migraine

Katherine Foxhall

29. Case Notes and Madness

Alannah Tomkins

30. Literature and Disease: A Novel Contagion

Sam Goodman

31. When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures

Arthur Frank

32. Living in the Present: Illness, Phenomenology, and Well-being

Havi Carel

Index