Locating Medical History
The Stories and Their Meanings
Published on 26. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
520 pages
978-0-8018-8548-8 (ISBN)
Description
The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field that accommodates a remarkable diversity of practitioners and approaches. At a time when medical history is facing profound choices about its future, these scholars explore the discipline in the distant and recent past in order to rethink its missions and methods today. They discuss such issues as the periodic estrangement of medical history from medicine, the influence of Foucault on the writing of medical history, and the shifts from social to cultural history and back again. Chapters explore the early history of the field, its transformations since the 1970s, and its prospects for the future. With diverse constituencies, a multiplicity of approaches, styles, and aims is both expected and desired.
This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, to provide a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve. Contributors: Olga Amsterdamska, University of Amsterdam; Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allan M. Brandt, Harvard Medical School; Theodore M. Brown, University of Rochester; Roger Cooter, University College London; Martin Dinges, Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung; Alice Domurat Dreger, Michigan State University; Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University; Elizabeth Fee, National Library of Medicine; Mary E. Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University; Danielle Gourevitch, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; Anja Hiddinga, University of Amsterdam; Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East Anglia; Alfons Labisch, Heinrich-Heine-University; Hans-Uwe Lammel, University of Rostock; Sherwin B. Nuland, Yale University; Vivian Nutton, University College London; Roy Porter, formerly University College London; Susan M. Reverby.
Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, to provide a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve. Contributors: Olga Amsterdamska, University of Amsterdam; Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allan M. Brandt, Harvard Medical School; Theodore M. Brown, University of Rochester; Roger Cooter, University College London; Martin Dinges, Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung; Alice Domurat Dreger, Michigan State University; Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University; Elizabeth Fee, National Library of Medicine; Mary E. Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University; Danielle Gourevitch, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; Anja Hiddinga, University of Amsterdam; Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East Anglia; Alfons Labisch, Heinrich-Heine-University; Hans-Uwe Lammel, University of Rostock; Sherwin B. Nuland, Yale University; Vivian Nutton, University College London; Roy Porter, formerly University College London; Susan M. Reverby.
Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
Reviews / Votes
Locating Medical History more than succeeds as, in the editors' words, 'an invitation to explore and reflect on a field-one that can include widely disparate senses of what medical history is, should be, and should do.' The volume contains several specialized and deeply theoretical essays intended for the medical historian, but any physician or researcher interested in the current status of the history of medicine will also enjoy and learn from it. -- Xavier Bosch Science 2005 The volume is exceptionally well edited and introduced and beautifully produced. -- Bill Luckin Medical History 2006 After this collection, there will no longer be any excuse for medical historians to pretend that their historical background is merely the 'doctors' histories' supposed once to have ruled the earth. This collection highlights much more interesting ancestries, making links with great traditions of scholarship since the Enlightenment, and with political traditions of both left and right. It includes many personal accounts and assessments which suggest how our disciplinary work can be related to wider goals within and beyond the academy. All historians of medicine should own a copy. Social History of Medicine 2005 A must read for every historian of nursing and student of nursing history. The essays capture the diversity and dynamism of healthcare in a coherent, engaging manner. Nursing History Review 2006 The volume has been excellently written and edited, while it is offering a wealth of references. Reading it I experienced as exciting, stimulating my imagination, challenging to approval or peevishness, inviting to rereading it in the near future. It is a very 'rich' volume, and most certainly a book that one ought to buy or to be given as a present. It is more than worth its price. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde [A] virtue of the book, and the reason everyone should buy it, is that it attempts to be international and makes visible the work of several scholars who are not known or read by many English-speaking historians. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2006 A thoughtful and stimulating volume. -- Philip M. Teigen Isis 2006 Contain[s] a number of interesting essays by some of the most creative medical historians of our time. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2006More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 s/w Zeichnungen
4 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
781 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-8548-8 (9780801885488)
DOI
10.1353/book.3309
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Persons
Frank Huisman is a professor in the history of medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Department of History at Maastricht University. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef and co-editor of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief. John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor and Chair of the History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of history and of American studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective and Against the Spirit of System.
Content
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Medical Histories
Part I: Traditions
Chapter 2. To Whom Does Medical History Belong? Johann Moehsen, Kurt Sprengel, and the Problem of Origins in Collective Memory
Chapter 3. Charles Daremberg, His Friend Emile Littre, and Positivist Medical History
Chapter 4. Bildung in a Scientific Age: Julius Pagel, Max Neuburger, and the Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 5. Karl Sudhoff and ''the Fall'' of German Medical History
Chapter 6. Ancient Medicine: From Berlin to Baltimore
Chapter 7. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist
Part II: A Generation Reviewed
Chapter 8. ''Beyond the Great Doctors'' Revisited: A Generation of the ''New'' Social History of Medicine
Chapter 9. The Historiography of Medicine in the United Kingdom
Chapter 10. Social History of Medicine in Germany and France in the Late Twentieth Century: From the History of Medicine toward a History of Health
Chapter 11. Trading Zones or Citadels? Professionalization and Intellectual Change in the History of Medicine
Chapter 12. The Power of Norms: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, and the History of Medicine
Chapter 13. Postcolonial Histories of Medicine
Part III: After the Cultural Turn
Chapter 14. ''Framing'' the End of the Social History of Medicine
Chapter 15. The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 16. Making Meaning from the Margins: The New Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 17. Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights Movement
Chapter 18. Transcending the Two Cultures in Biomedicine: The History of Medicine and History in Medicine
Chapter 19. A Hippocratic Triangle: History, Clinician-Historians, and Future Doctors
Chapter 20. Medical History for the General Reader
Chapter 21. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health Policy
Notes on Contributors
Index
Chapter 1. Medical Histories
Part I: Traditions
Chapter 2. To Whom Does Medical History Belong? Johann Moehsen, Kurt Sprengel, and the Problem of Origins in Collective Memory
Chapter 3. Charles Daremberg, His Friend Emile Littre, and Positivist Medical History
Chapter 4. Bildung in a Scientific Age: Julius Pagel, Max Neuburger, and the Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 5. Karl Sudhoff and ''the Fall'' of German Medical History
Chapter 6. Ancient Medicine: From Berlin to Baltimore
Chapter 7. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist
Part II: A Generation Reviewed
Chapter 8. ''Beyond the Great Doctors'' Revisited: A Generation of the ''New'' Social History of Medicine
Chapter 9. The Historiography of Medicine in the United Kingdom
Chapter 10. Social History of Medicine in Germany and France in the Late Twentieth Century: From the History of Medicine toward a History of Health
Chapter 11. Trading Zones or Citadels? Professionalization and Intellectual Change in the History of Medicine
Chapter 12. The Power of Norms: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, and the History of Medicine
Chapter 13. Postcolonial Histories of Medicine
Part III: After the Cultural Turn
Chapter 14. ''Framing'' the End of the Social History of Medicine
Chapter 15. The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 16. Making Meaning from the Margins: The New Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 17. Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights Movement
Chapter 18. Transcending the Two Cultures in Biomedicine: The History of Medicine and History in Medicine
Chapter 19. A Hippocratic Triangle: History, Clinician-Historians, and Future Doctors
Chapter 20. Medical History for the General Reader
Chapter 21. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health Policy
Notes on Contributors
Index