{"product_id":"the-routledge-history-of-disease-by-mark-jackson-9780367868819","title":"The Routledge History of Disease","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge History of Disease\u003c\/em\u003e 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. It presents 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised thematically, the chapters examine particular forms and conceptualisations of disease. Subjects range 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. The book also discusses the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.routledgehandbooks.com\/doi\/10.4324\/9781315543420.ch24\"\u003eRead here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608162255084,"sku":"9780367868819","price":116.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9f435960025b8dab467812ea9f344ab9.jpg?v=1778203021","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-routledge-history-of-disease-by-mark-jackson-9780367868819","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}