The Routledge History of Disease

637 Pages·2016·13.571 MB·English

by  Mark Jackson

THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY
OF DISEASE
The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medi-
cine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease through-
out the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and
perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be iden-
tified in the past and that continue to influence our present.
Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations
of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening
practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and
the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris,
as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand
the social and cultural contexts of disease. The book is divided into four sections,
focusing in turn on historical models of disease, shifting temporal and geographical
patterns of disease, the impact of new technologies on categorizing, diagnosing and
treating disease, and the different ways in which patients and practitioners, as well as
novelists and playwrights, have made sense of their experiences of disease in the past.
International in scope, chronologically wide-ranging and illustrated with images
and maps, this comprehensive volume is essential reading for anyone interested in
the history of health through the ages.
Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Exeter. His
publications include The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2013), The Ox-
ford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), Asthma: The Biography (2009), Health
and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Infan-
ticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550–2000 (ed., 2002), The
Borderland of Imbecility (2000), and New-born Child Murder (1996).
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THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY
OF DISEASE
Edited by Mark Jackson
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Names: Jackson, Mark, 1959- , editor.
Title: The Routledge history of disease / [edited by] Mark Jackson.
Other titles: Routledge histories.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |
Series: The Routledge histories | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016004659| ISBN 9780415720014 (hardback :
alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315543420 (ebook)
Subjects: | MESH: Disease Outbreaks—history
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Perspectives on the history of disease 1
MARK JACKSON
PART I
Models 19
2 Humours and humoral theory 21
R. J. HANKINSON
3 Models of disease in ayurvedic medicine 38
DOMINIK WUJASTYK
4 Religion, magic and medicine 54
CATHERINE RIDER
5 Contagion 71
MICHAEL WORBOYS
6 Emotions and mental illness 89
ELENA CARRERA
7 Deviance as disease: the medicalization of sex and crime 109
JANA FUNKE
PART II
Patterns 127
8 Pandemics 129
MARK HARRISON
9 Patterns of animal disease 147
ABIGAIL WOODS
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CONTENTS
10 Patterns of plague in late medieval and early-modern Europe 165
SAMUEL COHN, JR.
11 Symptoms of Empire: cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820–1850 183
ROBERT PECKHAM
12 Disease, geography and the market: epidemics of cholera in
Tokyo in the late nineteenth century 202
AKIHITO SUZUKI
13 Histories and narratives of yellow fever in Latin America 221
MÓNICA GARCÍA
14 Race, disease and public health: perceptions of Māori health 239
KATRINA FORD
15 Re-writing the ‘English disease’: migration, ethnicity and
‘tropical rickets’ 257
ROBERTA BIVINS
16 Social geographies of sickness and health in contemporary
Paris: toward a human ecology of mortality in the 2003 heat
wave disaster 279
RICHARD C. KELLER
PART III
Technologies 299
17 Disability and prosthetics in eighteenth- and
early nineteenth-century England 301
DAVID M. TURNER
18 Disease, rehabilitation and pain 320
JULIE ANDERSON
19 From paraffin to PIP: the surgical search for the perfect breast 335
FAY BOUND ALBERTI
20 Cancer screening 358
DAVID CANTOR
21 Medical bacteriology: microbes and disease, 1870–2000 378
CHRISTOPH GRADMANN
22 Technology and the ‘social disease’ 402
HELEN BYNUM
23 Reorganising chronic disease management: diabetes and
bureaucratic technologies in post-war British general practice 420
MARTIN D. MOORE
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CONTENTS
24 Before HIV: venereal disease among homosexually
active men in England and North America 439
RICHARD A. MCKAY
PART IV
Narratives 459
25 Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages 461
ELMA BRENNER
26 French medical consultations by mail, 1600–1800 474
ROBERT WESTON
27 The clinical narratives of James Parkinson’s Essay on
the Shaking Palsy (1817) 491
BRIAN HURWITZ
28 Digital narratives: four ‘hits’ in the history of migraine 512
KATHERINE FOXHALL
29 Case notes and madness 529
ALANNAH TOMKINS
30 Literature and disease: a novel contagion 547
SAM GOODMAN
31 When bodies need stories in pictures 565
ARTHUR W. FRANK
32 Living in the present: illness, phenomenology, and well-being 581
HAVI CAREL
Index 600
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
11.1 ‘Index Map Shewing the Places Chiefly Visited by the
Epidemick’ 187
11.2 ‘Map of the Countries Visited by the Epidemic Cholera From
the Year 1817 to the Year 1830, inclusive’ 188
11.3 ‘General Track of Epidemics in Eastern Asia’ 194
12.1 Korerabyo fusegi no zukai (Illustrated Guide for the
Prevention of Cholera), 1877 211
12.2 Tosei zatsugo ryukō machin fusegi (Contemporary miscellany
on the battle of the epidemic of measles), c. 1860 214
15.1 ‘The Great Goal: Good Health’ 260
17.1 Thomas Rowlandson, Amputation (London: S. Fores, 1793) 305
17.2 A Broken Leg, or the Carpenter the Best Surgeon (London: Laurie
and Whittle, 1800) 309
20.1 ‘I’m Confused’, Times Herald Tribune (Late Final South
Edition) 367
25.1 Woodcut showing a leprosy examination in Hans von
Gersdorff, Feldtbuch der Wundtartzney, Frankfurt-am-Main:
Hermann Gülfferich, 1551, fo. LXXXv 463
27.1 Greenwood map of Hoxton and Shoreditch 1827 493
27.2 Cheapside in 1823 503
27.3– St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch, London,
27.4 circa 1800 504
29.1 Cartoon drawn by Ernest Taylor, patient in the Wonford
House Asylum, 1913, giving a visual depiction of his being
‘horribly tortured by electricity’ 538
31.1 ‘The pain only increases . . .’, from H. Pekar and J. Brabner,
Our Cancer Year, art by Frank Stack 569
31.2 ‘Time passes. He needs to take a leak’, from H. Pekar and
J. Brabner, Our Cancer Year, art by Frank Stack 570
31.3 ‘She attacks the chair’, from H. Pekar and J. Brabner,
Our Cancer Year, art by Frank Stack 571
31.4 ‘I’m not going to get pneumonia’, from H. Pekar and
J. Brabner, Our Cancer Year, art by Frank Stack 572
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ILLUSTRATIONS
31.5 Page from ‘Stress’ (‘Wait a minute, that flashback reminded
me . . .’), from Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir
in Comics by Miriam Engelberg 573
31.6 ‘Two autobiographies became hugely important to me’,
from Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A
Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney 577
Table
12.1 The number of patients, the incidence rate of cholera, the
size of the population, and the population density of the
15 wards of Tokyo. 205
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