The social and cultural histories of medicine

Title: The social and cultural histories of medicine
Creator: Coleborne, Catharine
Relation: Routledge international handbook of critical issues in health and illness p. 11-22
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003185215
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: This chapter examines the historical context for the study of health and illness from a global perspective. It focuses on the social and cultural histories of medicine from the early modern period to the present. Specific themes covered in this chapter are world history and disease; medical education; and social medicine and the role of the physician-historian. The chapter also highlights methods and approaches to the history of medicine, including health encounters, medical authority, and geographies of health, and the patient's voice. Foregrounding new and emerging scholarship in the global histories of medicine, such as biomedicine and its future; health activism; planetary health; and mental health, the chapter sets the scene for the volume with its range of themes in critical issues in health and illness, and situates these historically for the multidisciplinary reader.
Subject: behavioral sciences; health and social care; social sciences; sports and leisure
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439448
Identifier: uon:40931
Identifier: ISBN:9781032027951
Language: eng

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