A Cultural History of Medicine: Volumes 1-6

by Roger Cooter (Editor)

Overview

A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of medicine from antiquity through to the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350451643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/19/2024
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.65(h) x 3.20(d)

About the Author

Roger Cooter is an independent scholar specializing in the history of medicine. He is the author of Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine (2013, with Claudia Stein), and the editor of In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880 - 1940 (2011) and Medicine in the 20th Century (2014, with John Pickstone).

Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity (500BCE-800CE)
Edited by Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University, UK)

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages (800-1450)
Edited by Iona McCleery (University of Leeds, UK)

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance (1450-1650)
Edited by Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick, UK)

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)
Edited by Lisa Smith (University of Essex, UK)

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)
Edited by Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK)

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age (1920-2000+)
Edited by Todd Meyers (Wayne State University, USA)