Locating Medical History

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8548-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field that accommodates a remarkable diversity of practitioners and approaches.

At a time when medical history is facing profound choices about its future, these scholars explore the discipline in the distant and recent past in order to rethink its missions and methods today. They discuss such issues as the periodic estrangement of medical history from medicine, the influence of Foucault on the writing of medical history, and the shifts from social to cultural history and back again. Chapters explore the early history of the field, its transformations since the 1970s, and its prospects for the future.

With diverse constituencies, a multiplicity of approaches, styles, and aims is both expected and desired. This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, to provide a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve.

Contributors: Olga Amsterdamska, University of Amsterdam; Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allan M. Brandt, Harvard Medical School; Theodore M. Brown, University of Rochester; Roger Cooter, University College London; Martin Dinges, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung; Alice Domurat Dreger, Michigan State University; Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University; Elizabeth Fee, National Library of Medicine; Mary E. Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University; Danielle Gourevitch, École Pratique des Hautes Études; Anja Hiddinga, University of Amsterdam; Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East Anglia; Alfons Labisch, Heinrich-Heine-University; Hans-Uwe Lammel, University of Rostock; Sherwin B. Nuland, Yale University; Vivian Nutton, University College London; Roy Porter, formerly University College London; Susan M. Reverby. Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rütten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huisman, Frank

Warner, John Harley

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Medical Histories
Part I: Traditions
Chapter 2. To Whom Does Medical History Belong? Johann Moehsen, Kurt Sprengel, and the Problem of Origins in Collective Memory
Chapter 3. Charles Daremberg, His Friend Émile Littré, and Positivist Medical History
Chapter 4. Bildung in a Scientific Age: Julius Pagel, Max Neuburger, and the Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 5. Karl Sudhoff and ''the Fall'' of German Medical History
Chapter 6. Ancient Medicine: From Berlin to Baltimore
Chapter 7. Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist
Part II: A Generation Reviewed
Chapter 8. ''Beyond the Great Doctors'' Revisited: A Generation of the ''New'' Social History of Medicine
Chapter 9. The Historiography of Medicine in the United Kingdom
Chapter 10. Social History of Medicine in Germany and France in the Late Twentieth Century: From the History of Medicine toward a History of Health
Chapter 11. Trading Zones or Citadels? Professionalization and Intellectual Change in the History of Medicine
Chapter 12. The Power of Norms: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, and the History of Medicine
Chapter 13. Postcolonial Histories of Medicine
Part III: After the Cultural Turn
Chapter 14. ''Framing'' the End of the Social History of Medicine
Chapter 15. The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 16. Making Meaning from the Margins: The New Cultural History of Medicine
Chapter 17. Cultural History and Social Activism: Scholarship, Identities, and the Intersex Rights Movement
Chapter 18. Transcending the Two Cultures in Biomedicine: The History of Medicine and History in Medicine
Chapter 19. A Hippocratic Triangle: History, Clinician-Historians, and Future Doctors
Chapter 20. Medical History for the General Reader
Chapter 21. From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health Policy
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Warner, John Harley
John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor and Chair of the History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of history and of American studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective and Against the Spirit of System.

Huisman, Frank
Frank Huisman is a professor in the history of medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Department of History at Maastricht University. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef and co-editor of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief.

Frank Huisman is a professor in the history of medicine at the University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Department of History at Maastricht University. He is the author of Stadsbelang en standsbesef and co-editor of Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief. John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor and Chair of the History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of history and of American studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective and Against the Spirit of System.