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Presents the way in which the history of smoking among women raises complex questions about the construction of female identities in relation to smoking, and the implications of this for understanding smoking among women as a medical and public health problem.

This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative.

This selection of essays provides a valuable insight into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition in Britain.

This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of racial and medical history.

This book, with articles from an international set of contributors, provides a scholarly social history of disability. The diverse nature of the material in this book will make it relevant to scholars interested in cultural, literary, social & political as well as medical history.

Taking forward the debate on the role of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850.

Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern research.

This selection of essays provides a valuable insight into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition in Britain.

Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects.

Between August 1918 and March 1919, a flu pandemic spread across the globe. This book provides a history, and analyzes the British experiences during that time. It offers a tally of the pandemic's impact, including the vast mortality, as well as questions the apparent origins of the pandemic.

In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.

This volume brings together cutting edge research by a number of international historians. The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power, economic constraint and cultural divides.

In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.

Examines the development of a view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. This book examines developments in Western Europe, and the relationships between Europe and the US. It is for public health professionals, and students of the history of medicine and of heath policy.

This study sets out to examine the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.

Focusing on the field of disability history, this book explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveals the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.

Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

Takes a look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. This book considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies on the professional development of district nursing.

Tackles the history of the terms "normal" and "abnormal". This book features essays that explore these concepts from the perspectives of academic disciplines - ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and anthropology. It also puts forward the ideas of philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and others.

The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine. This volume considers risk and medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases of medical innovation, including X-rays, the pill and Thalidomide, in their respective contexts.

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of racial and medical history.

A volume of essays that is devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, this text presents an appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845.

Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in the 20th century.

The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.

Includes information on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane. This volume challenges scholarship, and focuses on a range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range of social sciences.