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Chapter 1. Perspectives on the History of Disease / Mark Jackson
PART I. Models: Chapter 2. Humours and humoral theory / R. J. Hankinson; Chapter 3. Models of disease in Ayurvedic medicine / Dominik Wujastyk; Chapter 4. Religion, magic and medicine / Catherine Rider; Chapter 5. Contagion / Michael Worboys; Chapter 6. Emotions and mental illness / Elena Carrera; Chapter 7. Deviance as disease: the medicalization of sex and crime / Jana Funke
PART II. Patterns: Chapter 8. Pandemics / Mark Harrison; Chapter 9. Patterns of animal disease / Abigail Woods; Chapter 10. Patterns of plague in late medieval and early-modern Europe / Samuel Cohn, Jr.; Chapter 11. Symptoms of Empire: cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850 / Robert Peckham; Chapter 12. Disease, geography and the market: epidemics of cholera in Tokyo in the late nineteenth century / Akihito Suzuki; Chapter 13. Histories and narratives of yellow fever in Latin America / Mónica García; Chapter 14. Race, disease and public health: perceptions of Māori health / Katrina Ford; Chapter 15. Re-writing the "English disease": migration, ethnicity and "tropical rickets" / Roberta Bivins; Chapter 16. Social geographies of sickness and health in contemporary Paris: toward a human ecology of mortality in the 2003 heat wave disaster / Richard C. Keller
PART III. Technologies: Chapter 17. Disability and prosthetics in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / David M. Turner; Chapter 18. Disease, rehabilitation and pain / Julie Anderson; Chapter 19. From paraffin to PIP: the surgical search for the perfect breast / Fay Bound Alberti; Chapter 20. Cancer screening / David Cantor; Chapter 21. Medical bacteriology: microbes and disease, 1870-2000 / Christoph Gradmann; Chapter 22. Technology and the "social disease" / Helen Bynum; Chapter 23. Reorganising chronic disease management: diabetes and bureaucratic technologies in post-war British general practice / Martin D. Moore; Chapter 24. Before HIV: venereal disease among homosexually active men in England and North America / Richard A. McKay
PART IV. Narratives: Chapter 25. Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages / Elma Brener; Chapter 26. French medical consultations by mail, 1600-1800 / Robert Weston; Chapter 27. The clinical narratives of James Parkinson's Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817) / Brian Hurwitz; Chapter 28. Digital narratives: four "hits" in the history of migraine / Katherine Foxhall; Chapter 29. Case notes and madness / Alannah Tomkins; Chapter 30. Literature and disease: a novel contagion / Sam Goodman; Chapter 31. When bodies need stories in pictures / Arthur W. Frank; Chapter 32. Living in the present: illness, phenomenology, and well-being / Havi Carel.
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Perspectives on the History of Disease / Mark Jackson
PART I. Models: Chapter 2. Humours and humoral theory / R. J. Hankinson; Chapter 3. Models of disease in Ayurvedic medicine / Dominik Wujastyk; Chapter 4. Religion, magic and medicine / Catherine Rider; Chapter 5. Contagion / Michael Worboys; Chapter 6. Emotions and mental illness / Elena Carrera; Chapter 7. Deviance as disease: the medicalization of sex and crime / Jana Funke
PART II. Patterns: Chapter 8. Pandemics / Mark Harrison; Chapter 9. Patterns of animal disease / Abigail Woods; Chapter 10. Patterns of plague in late medieval and early-modern Europe / Samuel Cohn, Jr.; Chapter 11. Symptoms of Empire: cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850 / Robert Peckham; Chapter 12. Disease, geography and the market: epidemics of cholera in Tokyo in the late nineteenth century / Akihito Suzuki; Chapter 13. Histories and narratives of yellow fever in Latin America / Mónica García; Chapter 14. Race, disease and public health: perceptions of Māori health / Katrina Ford; Chapter 15. Re-writing the "English disease": migration, ethnicity and "tropical rickets" / Roberta Bivins; Chapter 16. Social geographies of sickness and health in contemporary Paris: toward a human ecology of mortality in the 2003 heat wave disaster / Richard C. Keller
PART III. Technologies: Chapter 17. Disability and prosthetics in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / David M. Turner; Chapter 18. Disease, rehabilitation and pain / Julie Anderson; Chapter 19. From paraffin to PIP: the surgical search for the perfect breast / Fay Bound Alberti; Chapter 20. Cancer screening / David Cantor; Chapter 21. Medical bacteriology: microbes and disease, 1870-2000 / Christoph Gradmann; Chapter 22. Technology and the "social disease" / Helen Bynum; Chapter 23. Reorganising chronic disease management: diabetes and bureaucratic technologies in post-war British general practice / Martin D. Moore; Chapter 24. Before HIV: venereal disease among homosexually active men in England and North America / Richard A. McKay
PART IV. Narratives: Chapter 25. Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages / Elma Brener; Chapter 26. French medical consultations by mail, 1600-1800 / Robert Weston; Chapter 27. The clinical narratives of James Parkinson's Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817) / Brian Hurwitz; Chapter 28. Digital narratives: four "hits" in the history of migraine / Katherine Foxhall; Chapter 29. Case notes and madness / Alannah Tomkins; Chapter 30. Literature and disease: a novel contagion / Sam Goodman; Chapter 31. When bodies need stories in pictures / Arthur W. Frank; Chapter 32. Living in the present: illness, phenomenology, and well-being / Havi Carel.