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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Mark Jackson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:14th Feb '13

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'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List 2018

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explores medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.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.

Featured as an 'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018

ISBN: 9780199668397

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1206g

692 pages