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Mark Jackson, The Routledge history of disease, 2016.&#160;The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout 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 identified 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.&#160;Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgements List of contributors1. Perspectives on the History of Disease - Mark JacksonPart One: Models2. Humours and Humoral Theory - Jim Hankinson3. Models of Disease in Ayurvedic Medicine - Dominik Wujastyk4. Religion, Magic and Medicine - Catherine Rider5. Contagion - Michael Worboys6. Emotions and Mental Illness - Elena Carrera7. Deviance as Disease: The Medicalization of Sex and Crime - Jana FunkePart Two: Patterns8. Pandemics - Mark Harrison9. Patterns of Animal Disease - Abigail Woods10. Patterns of Plague in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Europe - Samuel Cohn11. Symptoms of Empire: Cholera in Southeast Asia, 1820-1850 - Robert Peckham12. Disease, Geography, and the Market: Epidemics of Cholera in Tokyo in the Late Nineteenth Century - Akihito Suzuki13. Histories and Narratives of Yellow Fever in Latin America - Monica Garcia14. Race, Disease and Public Health: Perceptions of Māori Health - Katrina Ford15. Re-writing the ‘English disease’: Migration, Ethnicity and ‘Tropical Rickets’ - Roberta Bivins16. Social Geographies of Sickness and Health in Contemporary Paris: Toward a Human Ecology of Mortality in the 2003 Heat Wave Disaster - Richard KellerPart Three: Technologies17. Disability and Prosthetics in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century England - David Turner18. Disease, Rehabilitation and Pain - Julie Anderson19. From Paraffin to PIP: The Surgical Search for the Perfect Breast - Fay Bound Alberti20. Cancer Screening - David Cantor21. Medical Bacteriology: Microbes and Disease, 1870 – 2000 - Christoph Gradmann22. Technology and the `Social Disease’ - Helen Bynum23. Reorganising Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes and Bureaucratic Technologies in Post-War British General Practice - Martin Moore24. Before HIV: Venereal Disease Among Homosexually Active Men in the Anglo-American World - Richard McKayPart Four: Narratives25. Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages - Elma Brenner26. French Medical Consultations by Mail, 1600-1800 - Robert Weston27. The Clinical Narratives of James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817) - Brian Hurwitz28. Digital Narratives: 4 ‘Hits’ in the History of Migraine - Katherine Foxhall29. Case Notes and Madness - Alannah Tomkins30. Literature and Disease: A Novel Contagion - Sam Goodman31. When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures - Arthur Frank32. Living in the Present: Illness, Phenomenology, and Well-being - Havi CarelIndex Find all the information on the editor website (Routledge)