| The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine Contributor(s): Jackson, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0199546495 ISBN-13: 9780199546497 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $175.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 610.9 |
| LCCN: 2011499894 |
| Series: Oxford Handbook |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.1" W x 9.8" (2.95 lbs) 696 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine. |