Series: Social Histories of Medicine

This is the first publication to investigate the rise of alcohol as a medical problem within a variety of countries and political and cultural contexts. The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policymakers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons' ideas...

Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950 explores the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world and examines where it might be found. This volume shifts focus from top-down histories of health and medicine that emphasise states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres on the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present....

This book focuses on the policies, politics and management of health care in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1973. It explores the development of Northern Irish health care from its highly localist and fragmented origins to the most centrally managed system within the National Health Service. At the core of this analysis is an exploration of the interest groups that...