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Welcome to our History of Medicine


Catalogue, 201516
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Stress in PostWar Britain


Edited by Mark Jackson

Perspectives in Economic and Social History

Insanity and the


Lunatic Asylum in the
Nineteenth Century
Edited by Thomas Knowles
and Serena Trowbridge

The Body, Gender and Culture

Dear Reader,
I hope you are as excited as we are by some of the new
publications we have on offer in this catalogue. Our
monograph series Studies for the Society for the Social
History of Medicine (pp. 37) in particular has plenty to offer
the scholar of medical history. For those with a particular
interest in the early-modern period our Body, Gender and
Culture series (pp. 78) is especially relevant, with titles
such as Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
placing such events in to their wider social and legal context.
The analysis of the wider social and cultural implications of
medicine is a great strength of our list. This is shown clearly in
our Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series
(pp. 910). The essays in Victorian Medicine and Popular
Culture explore how the rise of scientific medicine impacted
on various aspects of society, for example how medicine and
the medical profession came to be portrayed in crime fiction of
the period.

Infanticide and
Abortion in Early
Modern Germany
Margaret Brannan Lewis

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Whatever your area of research I am sure that you will find


something of value in these pages. I would also be delighted
to hear from you with any suggestions for new works to add to
our ever-growing list.
Mark Pollard

Victorian Medicine
and Popular Culture
Edited by Louise Penner
and Tabitha Sparks

Publishing Director
mpollard@pickeringchatto.co.uk

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Studies for the


Society for the
Social History of
Medicine
Series Editors: David Cantor and
Keir Waddington
The series is concerned with all
aspects of health, illness and
medicine, from antiquity to the
present, in all parts of the globe. The
series is a collaboration between
Pickering & Chatto and the Society
for the Social History of Medicine
(SSHM).
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The Politics of Vaccination:


A Global History

Editors: Christine Holmberg,


Stuart Blume and Paul R
Greenough
Protecting public health is central to
the success of a modern government.
The essays in this edited collection
focus on the relationship between
vaccines, vaccination policies and
nation states, across the last two
centuries. Key campaigns against
major diseases in Europe, West Africa,
South and East Asia, and North
and South America are examined
in detail, to provide the first truly
global study of vaccine controversies.
Expert contributors provide a complex
historical analysis of vaccination that
will be of interest to historians, public
health scholars and policy makers.
Contributors
Jaime Benchimol, Niels Brimnes,
Ana Mara Carrillo, Eun Kyung Choi,
Britta Lundgren, Bill Muraskin,
Young-Gyung Paik, Elisha Renne,
Anna Smajdor, Andrea Stckl,
Dora Vargha and Julia Yongue
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine
c.256pp: 234x156: November 2015
HB 978 1 84893 583 9: 60/$99

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The Rockefeller Foundation,


Public Health and
International Diplomacy,
19201945
Josep L Barona
In the years after the First World
War, living conditions across much
of Europe were poor, and public
health authorities were forced to
focus on social issues such as diet and
sanitation. Based on extensive archival
research, this study examines the role
of the Rockefeller Foundation and the
League of Nations in improving public
health during the interwar period.
Barona argues that the Foundation
applied a model of business efficiency
to its ideology of spreading good
health: defining problems, identifying
opportunities and aiming at achievable
goals, creating a revolution in public
health practice.
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine
c.256pp: 234x156: July 2015
HB 978 1 84893 567 9: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/publichealth

Stress in Post-War Britain


Editor: Mark Jackson
In the years following World War II
the health and well-being of the
nation was of primary concern to the
British government. The essays in this
collection examine the relationship
between health and stress in post-war
Britain through a series of carefully
connected case studies.
Contributors
Nicole Baur, Ali Haggett, Val Harrington,
Sarah Hayes, Rhodri Hayward,
Edgar Jones, Jill Kirby, Jo Melling,
Chris Millard, Debbie Palmer, Ed Ramsden,
Pamela Richardson, Matthew Smith and
Allan Young
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine
c.256pp: 234x156: June 2015
HB 978 1 84893 473 3: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/stress

The Development of Scientific


Marketing in the Twentieth
Century: Research for Sales in the
Pharmaceutical Industry

Editors: Jean-Paul Gaudillire


and Ulrike Thoms
The global pharmaceutical industry is
currently estimated to be worth
$1 trillion. Contributors to this volume
chart the rise of scientific marketing
within the industry between 1920
and 1980. Case studies cover the
development of new drugs such as the
contraceptive pill, and the ever closer
integration of clinical research with
subsequent marketing campaigns.
Contributors
Christian Bonah, Tricia Close-Koenig,
Stephan Felder, Lucie Gerber, Nils Kessel,
Lisa Malich, Anne-Sophie Mazas and
Quentin Ravelli
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 22
288pp: 234x156: March 2015
HB 978 1 84893 559 4: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/marketing

Psychiatry and Chinese


History
Editor: Howard Chiang
This collection examines psychiatric
medicine in China across the early
modern and modern periods. Essays
focus on the diagnosis, treatment and
cultural implications of madness and
mental illness and explore the complex
trajectory of the medicalization of the
mind in shifting political contexts of
Chinese history.
provides a fascinating and important
historical backdrop to current debates in
Chinese mental health care. Digesting
the Medical Past

Contributors
Geoffrey Blowers, Hsiu-fen Chen, Nancy
N Chen, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Zhiying Ma,
Hugh Shapiro, Fabien Simonis, Peter Szto,
Brigid E Vance, Wen-Ji Wang, Shelley
Wang Xuelai and Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 21
288pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 438 2: 60/$99

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Institutionalizing the Insane


in Nineteenth-Century
England
Anna Shepherd
The nineteenth century brought
an increased awareness of mental
disorder, epitomized in the Asylum
Acts of 1808 and 1845. The desire
to contain or cure the afflicted led
to an unprecedented growth of
asylums across England and Wales.
Shepherd compares and contrasts
two very different institutions to
provide a nuanced account of the
nineteenth-century mental health
system. In doing so she explores issues
including the patient population, staff,
treatments and therapeutic outcomes,
incorporating an interrogation of the
accepted roles of class and gender.
there is much data to enjoy ... The
information about companions and
voluntary boarders is especially
valuable, and the direct comparison
between two differing asylums
particularly useful. Social History of
Medicine
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 20
240pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 431 3: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/insane

The Politics of Hospital


Provision in Early TwentiethCentury Britain
Barry M Doyle
Doyle examines the role of local and
national politics on hospitals. In the
years before the formation of the
Welfare State, access to hospital care
was limited by economic and social
factors which varied from place to
place. Ultimately, Doyle argues that
social and economic diversity created
a number of models for future health
care which rested on a combination of
voluntary and municipal provision.
offers a provocative, meticulously
researched and thoughtfully
written account of regional hospital
development in the pre-NHS period.
Digesting the Medical Past
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 19
320pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 433 7: 60/$99

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Health and Citizenship: Political


Cultures of Health in Modern Europe

Editors: Frank Huisman and


Harry Oosterhuis
Following the Second World War,
health was defined by a number
of international organizations as a
universal human right. It was this
fundamental principle that led to the
development of modern-day systems
of collective funding, and health is
now at the top of the global political
agenda. Contributors examine the
extent to which the state can interfere
with the private lives of its citizens, the
role of individual responsibility and if
any boundary occurs in terms of what
the state can realistically provide.
I would recommend it highly to anyone
concerned with contemporary health
care as well as policy history. Charles
E Rosenberg, Harvard University

Contributors
Rosemary Elliot, Larry Frohman, Anne
Hardy, Klasien Horstman, Evert Peeters,
Martin Powell, Matthew Ramsey, Ine van
Hoyweghen, Jrg Vgele and Kaat Wils
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 18
304pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 432 0: 60/$99

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Bacteria in Britain,
18801939
Rosemary Wall
Focusing on the years between the
identification of bacteria and the
production of antibiotic drugs, Wall
presents a study into how medical
bacteriology was integrated within
both clinical practice and public
knowledge. Using a series of case
studies, she demonstrates how
physicians began to use bacteriology
as a diagnostic tool and how the
public and lawyers argued about
responsibility for bacterial diseases
in workplaces and local communities.
Wall examines particular outbreaks
of anthrax and typhoid in detail,
addressing issues of local politics and
public health.
Wall's book clearly delivers a very
significant expansion of what we know
about the history of bacteriology.
Medical History
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 17
272pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 427 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/bacteria

Biologics, A History of Agents


Made From Living Organisms
in the Twentieth Century
Editors: Alexander von Schwerin,
Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig
The use of biologics drugs made
from living organisms has raised
specific scientific, industrial, medical
and legal issues. Each essay deals with
a case study of a biologic substance, or
group of biologics, and its use during
the twentieth century.
Historians who did not know they were
interested in biologics should take this
book seriously. Isis

Contributors
Klaus Angerer, Beat Bchi, Sven Bergmann,
Sophie Chauveau, Jean-Paul Gaudillire,
Christoph Gradmann, Lea Haller, Pim
Huijnen, Jonathan Simon and Ulrike Thoms
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 16
288pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 430 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/biologics

Human Heredity in the


Twentieth Century
Editors: Bernd Gausemeier,
Staffan Mller-Wille and
Edmund Ramsden
Contributors explore the interaction
of science, medicine and society in
determining how heredity was viewed
across the world during the politically
turbulent years of the twentieth
century.
critical reading for anyone interested in
a real view of the erratic progression of
science. All are engaging, well written,
and profusely referenced. CHOICE
Winner: CHOICE Outstanding
Academic Title Award, 2014

Contributors
Jenny Bangham, Ana Barahona, Francesco
Cassata, Anne Cottebrune, Soraya de
Chadarevian, Judith E Friedman, Pascal
Germann, Susan Lindee, Veronika
Lipphardt, Diane B Paul, Stephen
Pemberton, Mara Jess Santesmases,
Edna Surez-Diaz, Alexander von Schwerin
and Philip K Wilson
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 15
336pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 426 9: 60/$99

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Western Maternity and


Medicine, 18801990

Child Guidance in Britain,


19181955:

Editors: Janet Greenlees and


Linda Bryder
The contributors to this collection
look into the experiences of women
in the Western world going through
pregnancy and birth over the last
hundred years. Essays explore the
impact of the professionalization of
the medical services, the factors that
influenced women's decisions over
their choice of health care and whether
childbirth was seen as a natural or a
medical event.

The Dangerous Age of Childhood

Through rich case studies, the


contributors explore the diverse and
complex social, cultural and political
factors that have shaped maternity care,
vastly increasing our understanding
of these processes Hilary Marland,
University of Warwick

Contributors
Salim Al-Gailani, Angela Davis, Gayle
Davis, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Madonna
Grehan, Allison L Hepler and Alison Nuttall
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 14
240pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 434 4: 60/$99

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John Stewart
Stewart presents a history of child
guidance literature in Britain from
its origins in the years after the First
World War until the consolidation of
the welfare state. Concepts widely used
in this guidance also played a part in
broader social and cultural perceptions
of what constituted a childs healthy
emotional and psychological
development. This is the first study
of child guidance in this important
period and makes a significant
contribution to the historiography.
elegant, detailed, thoughtful ... A great
strength of his account is the use of the
local records of some clinics, especially
those in Scotland, offering an invaluable
basis for further local study. Bulletin
of the History of Medicine
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 12
256pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 429 0: 60/$99

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The Care of Older People:

A Medical History of Skin:


Scratching the Surface

Editors: Jonathan Reinarz and


Kevin Patrick Siena
With obvious and sometimes repellant
outward signs of malady, skin diseases
are often perceived as contagious, as
well as indicative of immorality. Such
connotations may have stemmed from
the buboes of syphilis, but the social
stigma of disfigurement is something
that still exists today. These essays
use case studies to chart the medical
history of skin from the eighteenth to
the twentieth century.
offers a thoughtful and carefully
assembled multi-faceted series of studies
on the representation of skin ... [an]
excellent and very useful collection.
Social History of Medicine

Contributors
Gemma Angel, Mechthild Fend, David
Gentilcore, Anne Kveim Lie, Richard A
McKay, Adrien Minard, James Moran,
Matthew L Newsom Kerr, Lynda Payne,
James F Stark, Kathleen Vongsathorn,
Philip K Wilson and Tania Woloshyn
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 10
304pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 413 9: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/skin

England and Japan, A Comparative Study

Modern German Midwifery,


18851960
Lynne Anne Fallwell
Between the late eighteenth and
the early twentieth century, the
industrialized world experienced a
transition in birth practices from the
holistic wise woman midwife to the
male medical specialist. While in many
countries this gendered struggle led
to a separation of midwifery from the
rest of modern medicine, in Germany
midwives took an active role in the
transition from traditional practice
to modern institutionalized health
care. Fallwell explores this transition
and sets it in its wider socio-historical
context, including the role of print
culture and the changes that occurred
before, during and after the Nazi
regime.
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 13
288pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 428 3: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/germanmidwifery

Mayumi Hayashi
Across the globe, populations are
getting older. Britain and Japan
are examples of two rapidly ageing
societies, and their governments face
increasing challenges in how to deal
with this situation. Unfortunately,
residential care still carries the stigma
of the British workhouse or the
Japanese obasuteyama (granny-dump
mountain) and is often viewed as a
last resort. Based on extensive archival
research and oral testimony, Hayashi
sets policy and practice at the national,
regional and local levels in their
historical contexts, offering a unique
comparison of the evolution of modern
residential care in England and Japan.
valuably dispels the deeply entrenched
belief that older people are much
more respected and cared for in Asian
countries such as Japan, than in
Western countries such as Britain. Pat
Thane, King's College London
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 11
320pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 417 7: 60/$99

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Toxicants, Health and


Regulation since 1945
Editors: Soraya Boudia and
Nathalie Jas
The number of potentially dangerous
substances is constantly increasing.
Though governments have introduced
measures to protect us, growth and
new developments in science and
technology mean that we are at greater
risk of exposure to toxic materials than
at any time in history. The papers in
this volume examine the concurrent
rise of pollutants and the regulations
designed to police their use.
well written and provides extensive
documentation. Recommended.
CHOICE

Contributors
Emmanuel Henry, Michelle Murphy,
Christopher Sellers, Sezin Topu and
Didier Torny
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 9
208pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 403 0: 60/$99

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Disabled Children:
Contested Caring, 18501979

Editors: Anne Borsay and


Pamela Dale
The care of disabled children has
always been contested. From the
middle of the nineteenth century
families were increasingly encouraged,
even coerced, to engage with approved
health and education services.
These essays follow a chronological
progression while focusing on practice
in a number of different countries.
opens up a new area of previously
unexplored territory for scholars from
a wide range of disciplines. Social
History of Medicine

Contributors
Mara Jos Bguena, Rosa Ballester,
Staffan Frhammar, Corrine Manning,
Mike Mantin, Jos Martnez-Prez,
Lee-Ann Monk, Marie C Nelson, Mara
Isabel Porras, Amy Rebok Rosenthal,
Matthew Smith, Pat Starkey, Steven
Thompson, Angela Turner and
Sue Wheatcroft
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 8
256pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 361 3: 60/$99

Nervous Disease in Late


Eighteenth-Century Britain:

A Modern History of the


Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine

The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

and British Society, 18001950

Heather R Beatty
This study, based on extensive use
of eighteenth-century newspapers,
hospital registers and case notes,
examines the experience of suffering
from nervous disease a supposedly
upper-class malady. Beatty concludes
that, far from the stereotyped
portrayal of nervous patients in
contemporary fiction, nervousness
was a legitimate medical diagnosis
with a firm basis in eighteenth-century
medical theory.

Ian Miller
This study is the first exploration of
the complex relationship between
the abdomen and modern British
society. It traces the development of
the management of gastric conditions
by various, often competing, members
of the medical profession, detailing
conflict between the ideas and values
of surgeons, physicians, psychologists
and gastroenterologists.

an admirable piece of work that sets out


the debate on nervousness in a helpful
and thorough way ... Beatty gives us
a balanced view of the real medical
context of a topic that has often been
examined with very different agendas
British Journal for the History of
Science
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 6
256pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 308 8: 60/$99

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Desperate Housewives,
Neuroses and the Domestic
Environment, 19451970
Ali Haggett
The historical association between
femininity and neurosis is well
documented. Many recent studies have
seen womens mental health issues
in the aftermath of the Second World
War as being a direct consequence of
a lack of opportunity and the banality
of a domestic lifestyle. Although the
figure of the desperate housewife is
familiar to us, Haggett suggests that
many women in the 1950s and 1960s
led satisfying lives and that gender
roles, while very different, were often
seen as equal.
we desperately need more such nuanced
and carefully evidenced historical
accounts of the social determinants
of mental illness. Mark Jackson,
University of Exeter
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 7
256pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 310 1: 60/$99

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War and the Militarization


of British Army Medicine,
17931830
Catherine Kelly
Drawing on rare manuscript sources,
Kelly examines how nearly twenty-five
years of sustained warfare affected
the professional identity embraced
by British doctors and thoroughly
militarized their approach to medicine.
She demonstrates the emergence of
the military medical officer and places
their work within the broader context
of changes to British medicine during
the first half of the nineteenth century.
should appeal to those with an interest
in military medicine and should
not be overlooked by scholars with
an interest in histories of medical
professionalization and medical
specialization, with whose work it also
engages. Isis
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 5
240pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 183 1: 60/$99

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makes an exemplary contribution to


the historical analysis of disease. Miller
joins an ongoing effort to use the history
of disease to knit together and illuminate
diverse aspects of social, environmental,
and scientific history Isis
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 4
208pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 181 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/stomach

Medicine in the Remote and


Rural North, 18002000
Editors: J T H Connor and
Stephan Curtis
This volume of thirteen essays focuses
on the health and treatment of the
peoples of northern Europe and
North America over the course of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
deserves to succeed in its aim to open
up the history of medical practice in
the sparsely populated regions of the
extreme north as a subject worthy of
the attention of historians. Annals of
Science

Contributors
Astri Andresen, Steven Cherry,
Megan J Davies, Marguerite Dupree,
Sren Edvinsson, Marianne Junila,
Linda Kealey, Francis King, ivind Larsen,
Sasha Mullally, Mette Rnsager and
Teemu Ryymin
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 3
320pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 157 2: 60/$99

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Locating Health: Historical and


Anthropological Investigations of Place
and Health

Editors: Erika Dyck and


Christopher Fletcher
The essays in this collection focus on
the dynamic relationship between
health and place. Through diverse
examples and perspectives, the
contributions offer new conceptual
and methodological insights,
enhancing both fields.
this volume serves as an important
starting point for what will doubtless be
an ongoing interdisciplinary debate on
the role of place in health and medicine,
and it has much to commend it. Social
History of Medicine

Contributors
Hugo DeBurgos, Alvin Finkel, Maureen
Lux, Stephen Mawdsley, Sasha Mullally,
Liza Piper, Jonathan Reinarz, Matthew
Smith, Susan Smith, Helen Vallianatos and
Marko Zivkovic
Studies for the Society for the Social History of
Medicine: 2
272pp: 234x156: 2010
HB 978 1 84893 149 7: 60/$99

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Meat, Medicine and Human


Health in the Twentieth
Century
Editors: David Cantor, Christian
Bonah and Matthias Drries
These essays explore the
relationship between the meat and
the pharmaceutical industries,
the slaughterhouse and the rise of
endocrinology, the therapeutic benefits
of meat extracts and the shortlived fate of liver ice-cream in the
treatment of pernicious anaemia. They
highlight a complicated array of often
contradictory attitudes towards meat
and human health.
an excellent contribution ... this well
organized and interesting book certainly
belongs on the shelves of university
libraries Journal of the History of
Medicine and Allied Sciences

Contributors
Rima D Apple, Michael J Broadway,
Jean-Paul Gaudillire, Susan Lederer,
Ilana Lowy, Naomi Pfeffer,
Jeffrey M Pilcher, Donald D Stull,
Ulrike Thoms and Keir Waddington

Studies for the Society


for the Social History
of Medicine 110
Series Editors: David Cantor and
Keir Waddington
Contains: Meat, Medicine and
Human Health in the Twentieth
Century; Locating Health;
Medicine in the Remote and Rural
North, 18002000; A Modern
History of the Stomach; War and
the Militarization of British Army
Medicine, 17931830; Nervous
Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century
Britain; Desperate Housewives,
Neuroses and the Domestic
Environment, 19451970; Disabled
Children; Toxicants, Health and
Regulation since 1945; A Medical
History of Skin
10 Volume Set
2588pp: 234x156: 2013
978 1 84893 475 7: 500/$840

Save 100/$150 on the


individual volume price
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The Body,
Gender and
Culture
Series Editor: Marjorie
Levine-Clark
Considers the body, gender and sex in
society and culture, from across the
world and from the medieval period
to the end of the twentieth century.
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Infanticide and Abortion in


Early Modern Germany
Margaret Brannan Lewis
Using a wide range of contemporary
sources, Lewis presents a nuanced
study into the changing nature of
infanticide in Germany over three
centuries. Infanticide and abortion
were complex crimes with a variety of
causes, perpetrators and punishments.
These crimes and the reaction to them
are placed in the wider context of the
period.
The Body, Gender and Culture
c.256pp: 234x156: December 2015
HB 978 1 84893 554 9: 60/$99

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Sex, Identity and


Hermaphrodites in Iberia,
15001800
Richard Cleminson and
Francisco Vzquez Garca
Early modern European thought held
that men and women were essentially
the same, with social forces creating
their differences. Such a view made
the existence of hermaphrodites easy
to accept. During the seventeenth
century, medical and legal arguments
began to turn against this one-sex
model, with hermaphroditism seen
as a medieval superstition. This
book traces this change in Iberia in
comparison to the earlier shift in
thought in northern Europe, and with
concurrent ideas in Latin America.
The Body, Gender and Culture: 16
224pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 302 6: 60/$99

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Studies for the Society for the Social History of


Medicine: 1
272pp: 234x156: 2010
HB 978 1 84893 103 9: 60/$99

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The Study of Anatomy in


Britain, 17001900

Age and Identity in


Eighteenth-Century England

Old Age and Disease in Early


Modern Medicine

Fiona Hutton
Before the 1832 Anatomy Act the
only legal source of cadavers for
medical use was the bodies of executed
murderers. As anatomy became the
dominant medical discipline of the
nineteenth century, the need for
bodies as a teaching tool increased
exponentially. Hutton looks at
Manchester and Oxford to provide
a comparative history of anatomical
study. The Appendix provides data
relating to numbers of medical
students and availability of bodies
compiled directly from contemporary
records.

Helen Yallop
Aging is a fundamental aspect of the
human condition, yet different eras
have understood it in very different
ways and suggested very different
means of defining, measuring and
improving it. Yallop looks at how
people in eighteenth-century England
understood the lifelong process of
growing older, in order to reconstruct
a set of ideas about age, bodies,
identity and change. Advances in
science and medicine at this time
meant that scholars and doctors could
investigate why the body got older,
how aging was experienced and what
the aging body signified in society.

Daniel Schfer
This book looks at the historical roots
of the debate surrounding old age and
disease. It explores the topic from a
variety of perspectives, using medical,
literary and legal sources. Schfer
examines over 160 Latin texts from
Europe and America to challenge
medical conceptions of old age during
the early modern period.

a welcome addition to the literature of


human dissection in England ...based
on excellent research, and provides
an admirable analysis of corpse
procurement and the place of anatomy
in medical education. Social History
of Medicine
The Body, Gender and Culture: 13
224pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 421 4: 60/$99

Historians of the body and medicine will


welcome this significant contribution to
the history of ageing. Social History
of Medicine
The Body, Gender and Culture: 11
208pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 401 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/age

Glhan Balsoy
Epidemics, migration and territorial
losses led to population decline in
early nineteenth-century Turkey.
In response, Ottoman elites began
a programme of population growth,
based on increased birth rate and
reduced infant mortality. Three
policies were initiated to achieve this:
the professionalization of midwives, a
ban on abortion and greater medical
care during pregnancy. Balsoy uses
previously untapped archival sources
to examine these developments,
arguing that these changes caused
reproduction to become a political
experience.
[We] heartily recommend the book to
experts on nineteenth-century medicine
and genderIsis
The Body, Gender and Culture: 12
192pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 325 5: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/ottoman

The Body, Gender and Culture: 4


304pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 020 9: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/disease

Paracelsuss Theory of
Embodiment: Conception and
Gestation in Early Modern Europe

www.pickeringchatto.com/anatomization

The Politics of Reproduction


in Ottoman Society,
18381900

provides an impressively
knowledgeable and comprehensive
assessment of the understanding of old
age throughout the early modern period
and across Europe. Early Modern
Medicine

Anatomy and the


Organization of Knowledge,
15001850
Editors: Matthew Landers and
Brian Muoz
Across early modern Europe,
the growing scientific practice
of dissection prompted new and
insightful ideas about the human body.
This collection of essays explores the
impact of anatomical knowledge on
wider issues of learning and culture.
Contributors
Kevin L Cope, Nick Davis, Touba Ghadessi,
Jrme Goffette, Craig Ashley Hanson,
Hisao Ishizuka, Filippo Pierpaolo Marino,
Sarah Parker, Jonathan Simon, Mauro
Spicci, Ionut Untea, Amy Witherbee and
Charles T Wolfe
The Body, Gender and Culture: 9
272pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 321 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/anatomy

Amy Eisen Cislo


During his lifetime Paracelsus
produced a significant body of work
that includes ruminations about
alchemy, health, healing, mineralogy,
theology and nature. Cislo argues
that to understand his oevre, modern
scholars need to think beyond modern
categories of science and theology. By
focusing on the themes of conception
and gestation, she explores how
Paracelsuss theological and medical
interests overlapped, intertwined and
converged.
contains stimulating interpretations
and has the merit of highlighting
a number of original aspects in
Paracelsus's theory of conception.
Sixteenth Century Journal
The Body, Gender and Culture: 2
192pp: 234x156: 2010
HB 978 1 85196 995 1: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/paracelsus

Science and
Culture in the
Nineteenth
Century
Series Editor: Bernard Lightman
Includes studies of major
developments within the disciplines
as well as works on popular science.
The evolution of scientific ideas is
placed in its social, political, religious,
cultural, imperial and international
contexts.
www.pickeringchatto.com/scienceculture

Victorian Medicine and


Popular Culture

The Making of Modern


Anthrax, 18751920:

Editors: Louise Penner and


Tabitha Sparks
This collection of essays explores
the rise of scientific medicine and its
impact on Victorian popular culture.
Chapters include an examination of
Charles Dickenss involvement with
hospital funding, concerns over milk
purity and the theatrical portrayal of
drug addiction, plus a whole section
devoted to the representation of
medicine in crime fiction. This is
an interdisciplinary study involving
public health, cultural studies, the
history of medicine, literature and the
theatre, providing new insights into
Victorian culture and society.

Uniting Local, National and Global

Contributors

Adolphe Quetelet, Social


Physics and the Average Men
of Science, 17961874
Kevin Donnelly
Adolphe Quetelet was an influential
scientist whose controversial work on
social physics was praised by American
reformers, but condemned by John
Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens. His
long and distinguished career brought
him into contact with many of the
Victorian intellectual elite, including
Goethe, Malthus, Babbage, Herschel
and Faraday. His theories even helped
inspire Dostoyevsky to write Crime
and Punishment. Donnelly presents
the first scholarly biography of
Quetelet, exploring his contribution to
quantitative reasoning and his place
in nineteenth-century intellectual
history.
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
c.256pp: 234x156: June 2015
HB 978 1 84893 568 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/quetelet

Meredith Conti, Marc Ducusin, Meegan


Kennedy, Julie Kraft, Kevin A Morrison,
Cheryl Blake Price, Jacob Steere-Williams
and Ellen J Stockstill
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
c.256pp: 234x156: June 2015
HB 978 1 84893 569 3: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/vmpc

Histories of Disease

James F Stark
From the mid-nineteenth century
onwards a number of previously
unknown conditions were recorded
in both animals and humans. Known
by a variety of names, and found in
diverse locations, by the end of the
century these diseases were united
under the banner of anthrax. Stark
examines anthrax in terms of local,
national and global significance, and
constructs a narrative that spans
public, professional and geographic
domains.
entertaining and enlightening
reading ... provides a very convincing
historical explanation of just why
anthrax, regarded as a veterinary
condition in large parts of the globe,
enjoyed such a unique career in human
medicineMedical History
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 21
272pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 446 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/anthrax

The Medical Trade Catalogue


in Britain, 18701914
Claire L Jones
By the late nineteenth century,
advances in medical knowledge,
technology and pharmaceuticals
led to the development of a thriving
commercial industry. The medical
trade catalogue became one of the
most important means of promoting
the latest tools and techniques to
practitioners. Drawing on over 400
catalogues produced between 1870
and 1914, Jones presents a study
of the changing nature of medical
professionalism. She examines the
use of the catalogue in connecting
the previously separate worlds of
medicine and commerce and discusses
its importance to the study of print
history more widely.
clearly shows the symbiotic relationship
between medicine and commerce in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries ... an important contribution
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 22
256pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 443 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/medicat

Vision, Science and


Literature, 18701920:
Ocular Horizons

Martin Willis
Willis explores the role of vision and
the culture of observation in Victorian
and modernist ways of seeing. He
charts the characterization of vision
through four organizing principles
small, large, past and future to
survey Victorian conceptions of what
vision was. He then explores how this
Victorian vision influenced twentiethcentury ways of seeing, when
anxieties over visual truth became
entwined with modernist rejections of
objectivity.
abounds with incisive readings and
innovative conjunctions. Victorian
Studies
Winner: British Society for
Literature and Science Annual
Prize, 2011
Winner: Cultural Studies in
English Prize, 2012
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 15
320pp: 234x156: 2011
HB 978 1 84893 234 0: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/ocular

Typhoid in Uppingham:
Analysis of a Victorian Town and School
in Crisis, 18757

Nigel Richardson
Richardson explores public health
strategy and central-local government
relations during the mid-nineteenth
century, using Uppingham as a case
study. This study illuminates wider
themes in Victorian public medicine,
including the difficulty of diagnosing
typhoid before breakthroughs in
bacteriological research, the problems
faced in implementing reform and the
length of time it took London ideas
and practice to filter into rural areas.
meticulously researched and carefully
analysed ... manages to illuminate the
wider picture of medicine and public
health in rural England in the midVictorian period. Victorian Studies
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 5
288pp: 234x156: 2008
HB 978 1 85196 991 3: 60/$99

Sanitation in Urban Britain,


15601700

Drink in the Eighteenth and


Nineteenth Centuries

Leona Jayne Skelton


Popular belief holds that throwing
the contents of a chamber pot into
the street was a common occurrence
during the early modern period. In
this first comparative analysis of
towns and cities across England and
Scotland, Skelton demonstrates that
this was not the case. Using a wide
range of public and private records
and by examining contemporary
environmental regulations, this study
shows that individuals, local councils
and national government invested
significant amounts of time, effort
and resources into maintaining clean
streets and civic spaces.

Editors: Susanne Schmid and


Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
The two hundred years covered in this
volume saw the emergence of urban
public places connecting drinking and
sociability. The case studies explore
drinking culture from a variety of
perspectives, including literature,
history, anthropology and the history
of medicine.

Perspectives in Economic and Social History


c.256pp: 234x156: November 2015
HB 978 1 84893 592 1: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/sanitation

www.pickeringchatto.com/typhoid

Medicine and Modernism:


A Biography of Henry Head

L S Jacyna
This is the first in-depth study of the
English neurologist and polymath
Sir Henry Head (18611940). Head
bridged the gap between science and
the arts. He was a published poet who
had close links with such figures as
Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon,
whilst his research into the nervous
system and the relationship between
language and the brain broke new
ground. Jacyna argues that these
advances must be contextualized
within wider Modernist debates about
perception and language.
Jacyna has given us an accomplished,
scholarly, and insightful account of an
era. Brain
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 6
353pp: 234x156: 2008
HB 978 1 85196 907 4: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/henryhead

Insanity and the Lunatic


Asylum in the Nineteenth
Century
Editors: Thomas Knowles and
Serena Trowbridge
The nineteenth-century asylum was
the scene of both terrible abuses
and significant advancements in
treatment and care. The essays in this
collection look at the asylum from
the perspective of the place itself its
architecture, funding and purpose
and at the experience of those who
were sent there.
delivers with alacrity and aplomb. It
was a pleasure to read Mad, bad and
desperate crime and insanity in
Victorian England

Contributors
Elaine Bailey, Claire Chatterton, Amanda
Finelli, Helen Goodman, Kostas Makras,
Bernard Melling, Shawn Phillips, Jennifer
Wallis, Will Wiles and Rebecca Wynter
Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 36
256pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 452 8: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/insanity

recommended to anyone with a serious


interest in drink, wine or spirits, coffee
or cocoa, from health cure to moral
danger Jon Mee, University of York

Contributors
Brian Cowan, Monika Elbert, Karen
Harvey, Gunther Hirschfelder, Norbert
Lennartz, Rolf Lessenich, Anja MllerWood, Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann, Jonathan
Reinarz, Caroline Rosenthal, Elmar
Schenkel, John Carter Wood, Rebecca
Wynter and Eva-Sabine Zehelein
Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 29
256pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 436 8: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/drink

Residential Institutions in
Britain, 17251970:
Inmates and Environments

Editors: Jane Hamlett, Lesley


Hoskins and Rebecca Preston
The essays in this collection explore
organizational intentions and
inhabitants experiences in a diverse
range of British residential institutions
during a period when such provision
was dramatically increasing. The book
addresses inmates, environments and
interactions, with essays focusing on
questions of authority, resistance,
agency, domesticity and the material
world.
Contributors
John Black, Jeremy Boulton, Fiona Fisher,
Louise Hide, Michelle Johansen, Mary
Clare Martin, Matthew L Newsom Kerr,
Krisztina Robert, Stephen Soanes and
William Whyte
Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 27
256pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 366 8: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/inmates

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Welfare and Old Age in


Europe and North America:

Sentiment and the Magdalen


Hospital: Luxury, Virtue and the

The Development of Social Insurance

Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture

South Africa

Editor: Bernard Harris


Over the last twenty years, historians
have become increasingly interested
in the role of non-state organizations
in the development of welfare services.
This study is particularly focused on
the role of friendly societies and other
insurance bodies in the provision of
aid for the elderly and the sick.

Mary Peace
Sentimentalism became popular
in the eighteenth century, part of
the philosophical idea that truth
is founded on emotion or moral
sentiment. Peace uses the London
Magdalen Hospital for Penitent
Prostitutes as a prism through
which to explore the sentimental
writing of this period. She charts
the moral struggle between luxury
and libertinism, and shows how
the sentimental narrative used by
writers including Fielding, Sterne and
Rousseau was appropriated by radicals
such as Mary Wollstonecraft and
Amelia Opie.

Editor: Poonam Bala


Focusing on India and South Africa
during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the essays in this collection
address power and enforced
modernity as applied to medicine.
Clashes between traditional methods
of healing and the practices brought in
by colonizers are explored across both
territories.

a very useful collection of wellresearched essays on a topic that has


recently assumed growing importance
Social Policy & Administration

Contributors
John Benson, Nicholas Broten,
J C Herbert Emery, Martin Gorsky,
Timothy W Guinnane, Aravinda Guntupalli,
Andrew Hinde, Tobias A Jopp,
Pilar Len-Sanz, Jernia Pons Pons,
Danile Rigter, Margarita Vilar Rodrguez,
Jochen Streb, Paolo Tedeschi and
Robert A A Vonk
Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 21
288pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 189 3: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/welfare

Rural Unwed Mothers:


An American Experience, 18701950

Mazie Hough
Drawing extensively from agency
records, newspaper accounts,
sociological studies and court
documents, Hough explores the
experiences of rural white unwed
mothers in Maine and Tennessee.
This is a fresh and much needed
microscopic view of a neglected topic ...
Recommended. CHOICE
Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 4
256pp: 234x156: 2010
HB 978 1 85196 400 0: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/unwed

c.256pp: 234x156: February 2016


HB 978 1 84893 494 8: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/sentiment

The Globalization of Space:


Foucault and Heterotopia

Editors: Mariangela Palladino and


John Miller
The work of Michel Foucault has been
influential in the analysis of space in a
variety of disciplines, most notably in
geography and politics. This collection
of essays is the first to focus on what
Foucault termed heterotopias, spaces
that exhibit multiple layers of meaning
and reveal tensions within society.
Contributors explore the concept of
heterotopia by examining a range of
contested spaces, including floating
asylums, hospitals, nomadic camps,
wind farms and national borders.
Contributors
Stella Bolaki, Tom Bristow, Iain Chambers,
Fabienne Collignon, Abdulrazak Gurnah,
Diane Morgan, Mauro Pala and
Zo Wicomb
240pp: 234x156: March 2015
HB 978 1 84893 462 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/heterotopia

Medicine and Colonialism:


Historical Perspectives in India and

Anyone interested in the mechanics of


medical colonialism and its persistent
impacts, meanings and interactions,
will benefit from these fascinating
and diverse new contributions which
are deeply researched and lucidly
presented. Allan M Brandt, Harvard
University

Contributors
Jeffrey M Jentzen, Steve Phatlane,
Howard Phillips, Katherine Royer,
Jonathan Saha, Arabinda Samanta,
Samiparna Samanta, Natasha Sarkar,
Sally Swartz and Russel Viljoen
Empires in Perspective: 22
240pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 465 8: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/colonialmedicine

Picturing Womens Health


Editors: Francesca Scott,
Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung
The essays in this collection
examine women in diverse roles;
mother, socialite, celebrity, medical
practitioner and patient. The wide
range of commentators allows a
diverse picture of womens health in
this period. Findings are discussed
within the historical, medical,
sociological, literary and art historical
contexts of the period to make a truly
interdisciplinary study.
The thought-providing work will be
valuable for collections in women's
history and the history of medicine ...
Highly recommended. CHOICE

Contributors
Claire Brock, Katherine Ford, Alexandra
Lewis, Hilary Marland, Andrew McInnes,
Joseph Morrissey, Sarah Richardson,
Tabitha Sparks and Susannah Wilson
Warwick Series in the Humanities: 4
224pp: 234x156: 2014
HB 978 1 84893 424 5: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/picturing

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Sex, Reproduction and


Darwinism

Organisms and Personal


Identity: Individuation and the Work

Research Objects in their


Technological Setting

Editors: Filomena de Sousa and


Gonzalo Munvar
This collection of essays looks at
sexuality and reproduction from an
evolutionary perspective. Covering
experimental discoveries as well as
theoretical investigations, the volume
explores the relationship between
evolution and other areas of human
behaviour.

of David Wiggins

Editors: Bernadette BensaudeVincent, Sacha Loeve, Alfred


Nordmann and Astrid Schwarz
By examining objects that hold a
prominent place in contemporary
science and technology, contributors
to this collection present a new
direction in the philosophy of
technoscience. Core concepts from
research in emerging disciplines
such as nanotechnology, molecular
medicine and the environmental
sciences are explored via a diverse
range of object-based case studies.
Objects are wide-ranging and include
Arctic ice cores, stem cells, heroin
and nuclear waste, but all testify to
technological innovation.

addresses an exciting topic and includes


sections on some of the most relevant
and interesting issues ... The variety
of perspectives allows readers to
appreciate the complexity of the topics
under discussion. Inmaculada de
Melo-Martin, Weill Cornell Medical
College Cornell University

Contributors
Pieter R Adriaens, Jens Bast, Julia Sandra
Bernal, William M Brown, Lucrecia Burges,
Camilo J Cela-Conde, Andreas De Block,
Ronald de Sousa, Eve-Marie Engels,
Jagdish Hattiangadi, Victor S Johnston,
Ken Kraaijeveld, Elisabeth Lloyd, Marcos
Nadal, Lesley Newson and David N Reznick
288pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 264 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/reproduction

Dying to be English:
Suicide Narratives and National Identity,
17211814

Kelly McGuire
McGuire examines the presentation
of suicide within the genre of the
eighteenth-century novel as both a
feminine action and a declaration of
national identity. She argues that the
cultural medium of the novel affords
a space to examine representations of
suicide, as female characters do not
merely take their lives in these works
but sacrifice themselves to another or
to a larger cause.
proves the reward of bringing multiple
disciplinary lenses to bear upon the
phenomenon of suicide and its broad
cultural resonance. EighteenthCentury Fiction
Gender and Genre: 8
304pp: 234x156: 2012
HB 978 1 84893 110 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/dying

A M Ferner
David Wigginss contribution to
metaphysics, logic and ethics has been
widely recognized, but the connections
between his work and recent issues in
the philosophy of biology have been
overlooked. This study demonstrates
how Wigginss work can contribute to,
as well as benefit from, contemporary
debate in this field. Biological
individuality, anti-reductionism
and natural kind determinism are
among the topics explored, along with
an overview of the history of brain
transplantation.
History and Philosophy of Biology
c.256pp: 234x156: June 2016
HB 978 1 84893 573 0: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/organisms

Romantic Biology, 18901945


Maurizio Esposito
Emerging over the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries,
organismal biology stemmed not
from the work of Darwin and his
circle, but was inspired by Romantic
natural philosophers, embryologists,
anatomists and physiologists. Esposito
presents a historiography of organicist
and holistic thought through an
examination of the work of leading
biologists from Britain and America.
He shows how this work relates to
earlier Romantic thought and sets it
within the wider context of the history
and philosophy of the life sciences.
useful for advanced audiences
interested in the history of science and
foundations of biological philosophies.
Summing Up: Recommended. CHOICE
Shortlisted for the Marc-Auguste
Pictet Prize, 2014
History and Philosophy of Biology: 1
272pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 420 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/organismal

Contributors
Kevin C Elliot, Aant Elzinga, Jennifer
Gabrys, Peter Galison, Christopher Kelty,
Hugh Lacey, Lucie Laplane, Colin Milburn,
Sophie Poirot-Delpech, Jens Soentgen,
Pierre Teissier, Simone van den Burg and
Cheryce von Xylander
History and Philosophy of Technoscience
c.256pp: 234x156: October 2015
HB 978 1 84893 584 6: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/objects

Reasoning in Measurement
Editors: Nicola Mner and
Alfred Nordmann
How can we measure intelligence
or quality of life? Building on recent
developments in the sciences, this
collection offers new understanding of
the epistemology of measurement. The
case studies foster important dialogue
between disparate fields, exploring
diverse topics such as brain imaging,
sexual orientation and seismology. By
taking an interdisciplinary perspective,
these essays highlight the significance
of both qualitative and quantitative
approaches to scientific practice,
where models, images, instruments
and methods all play a major role.
Contributors
Mieke Boon, Emily K Brock, Hasok Chang,
Donna J Drucker, Godfrey Guillaumin,
Liv Hausken, Andreas Kaminski, Patrick
Maynard, Leah McClimans, Teru Miyake,
Laura Perini, Tobias Schttler, Eran Tal,
Thomas Vogt and Laura Dassow Walls
History and Philosophy of Technoscience
c.256pp: 234x156: September 2015
HB 978 1 84893 602 7: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/measurement2

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Scientists Expertise as
Performance: Between State and
Society, 18601960

Editors: Joris Vandendriessche,


Evert Peeters and Kaat Wils
The essays in this collection explore
our reliance on experts within a
historical context and across a wide
range of fields, including agriculture,
engineering, health sciences and
labour management. Contributors
argue that experts were highly
aware of their audiences and used
performance to gain both scientific
and popular support.
Contributors
Jennifer Karns Alexander, Katja Bruisch,
Raf de Bont, Margo De Koster, David Freis,
Graeme Gooday, Frank Huisman, Martin
Kohlrausch, Per Lundin, David Niget,
Niklas Stenls and Martin Theaker
History and Philosophy of Technoscience: 6
c.256pp: 234x156: April 2015
HB 978 1 84893 527 3: 60/$99

Monstrous Births and Visual


Culture in Sixteenth-Century
Germany
Jennifer Spinks
Physically deformed children and
animals were a source of fascination
and fear in early modern Europe. This
study is an examination of printed
representations of monstrous births
in German-speaking Europe from the
end of the fifteenth and through the
sixteenth century.
Well researched and with thoughtful
use of primary sources, this book is a
welcome and necessary addition to the
nascent scholarship on the complex
subject of monsters in the early modern
period. Renaissance Quarterly
Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World: 5
224pp: 234x156: 2009
HB 978 1 85196 630 1: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/monstrousbirths

Breast Cancer in the


Eighteenth Century

Editor: Marta Bertolaso


Focusing on cell dynamics,
molecular medicine and robotics,
contributors explore the interplay
between biological, technological and
theoretical ways of thinking. They
argue that the direction of modern
science means that these areas can no
longer be explored independently but
must be integrated if we are to better
understand the world.
Contributors
Dino Accoto, Marco Buzzoni, Federico
Boem, Giovanni Boniolo, Antonio Diguez,
Nicola Di Stefano, Giampaolo Ghilardi,
Alessandro Giuliani, Wenceslao J Gonzalez,
Eugenio Guglielmelli, Sui Hang, Cecilia
Laschi, Alfredo Marcos, Miles MacLeod,
Zsuzsa Pavelka and Kumar Selvarajoo
History and Philosophy of Technoscience: 5
256pp: 234x156: March 2015
HB 978 1 84893 562 4: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/BTL

Editors: Tristanne Connolly and


Steve Clark
During the eighteenth century
medicine became an autonomous
discipline and practice. Surgeons
justified themselves as skilled
practitioners and set themselves
apart from the 'barber-surgeons' of
early modernity. The essays in this
collection focus on a range of medical
narratives including Daniel Defoe on
plague and public perceptions of the
King's mental illness.
Contributors
James Robert Allard, Gavin Budge,
David Chandler, Megan Coyer, Molly
Desjardins, George C Grinnell, Hisao
Ishizuka, Clark Lawlor, Susan Matthews,
Kimiyo Ogawa, Sharon Ruston, Aris
Sarafianos, Richard C Sha and Wayne Wild
The Enlightenment World: 10
320pp: 234x156: 2009
HB 978 1 85196 632 5: 60/$99

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The Future of Scientific


Practice: 'Bio-Techno-Logos'

Liberating Medicine,
17201835

Marjo Kaartinen
Early modern physicians and surgeons
tried desperately to understand
breast cancer, testing new medicines
and radically improving operating
techniques. Kaartinen explores the
emotional responses of patients and
their families to the disease in the long
eighteenth century.
The joy of this book is the way it uses
medical case notes and receipt books to
give voice to cancer patients themselves
... a valuable addition to the field of
medical history. Social History of
Medicine
Studies for the International Society for Cultural
History: 4
256pp: 234x156: 2013
HB 978 1 84893 364 4: 60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/cancer

www.pickeringchatto.com/liberatingmedicine

Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of


Romantic-Era Psychologists

Michelle Faubert
Faubert focuses on a group of
psychologist-poets who grew out of
the liberal literary-medical culture
of the Scottish Enlightenment. They
used poetry as an accessible form to
communicate emerging psychological,
cultural and moral ideas.
The Enlightenment World: 9
304pp: 234x156: 2009
HB 978 1 85196 955 5: 60/$99

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Alchemists of Human Nature:


Psychological Utopianism in Gross, Jung,
Reich and Fromm

Petteri Pietikainen
This study places the utopian impulse
within the historical context of the
large, violent socio-political narratives
of the early twentieth century.
A fascinating historical analysis ...
extensively researched, well written,
and well documented, this will be a
valuable resource to those interested in
these four men or in utopian societies.
Highly recommended CHOICE
304pp: 234x156: 2007
HB 978 1 85196 923 4: 60/$99

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Major Works
Pickering & Chattos Major Works
are made up of primary resource
documents or critical editions of rare
or unpublished material.
Scholarly apparatus usually includes
an extensive introduction, volume
introductions, headnotes, endnotes
and an index.
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Memoirs of the Court of


George III
General Editor: Michael Kassler
George III was one of the longest
reigning British monarchs, ruling
over most of the English-speaking
world from 1760 to 1820. Despite his
longevity, Georges reign was one of
turmoil. Britain lost its colonies in the
War of American Independence and
the European political system changed
dramatically in the wake of the
French Revolution. Closer to home,
problems with the Kings health led to
a constitutional crisis.
This edition presents four first-hand
accounts which record significant
events, including the American and
French Revolutions and the madness
of George III.
4 Volume Set
c.1664pp: 234x156: March 2015
978 1 84893 469 6: 350/$625

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The Miscellaneous Writings


of Tobias Smollett

The History of Suicide in


England, 16501850

Editors: O M Brack, Leslie Chilton


and Walter H Keithley
Tobias Smollett (172171) is best
known as a novelist; however this
prolific and talented author was also
a notable historian, literary critic,
translator, medical writer and satirist.

Editors: Mark Robson, Paul S


Seaver, Kelly McGuire, Jeffrey
Merrick and Daryl Lee
This edition draws together a range
of sources from the early modern
era through to the industrial age, to
show the changes and continuities
in responses to the social, political,
legal and spiritual problems that
self-murder posed, and to illustrate
the nature of the lively and vibrant
contemporary debates about and
depictions of suicide.

This volume will help us to reassess


our understanding of Smollett by
presenting some of his most significant
miscellaneous writings in a new
critical edition. Most of these texts
have not been republished since the
eighteenth century. This edition is the
final work of distinguished Smollett
scholar, O M Brack, Jr (19382012).
The Pickering Masters
c.400pp: 234x156: May 2015
HB 978 1 84893 503 7: 100/$180

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Sanitary Reform in Victorian


Britain
General Editor: Michelle AllenEmerson
Sanitary reform was one of the great
debates of the nineteenth century.
Unprecedented urban growth
significantly increased the spread of
disease, presenting new challenges
to public health. This edition makes
available for the first time a modern,
edited collection of rare nineteenthcentury documents specifically
addressing sanitary reform. It includes
material on Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Manchester, Dublin and London,
giving a nationwide perspective on the
conditions of British urban life.
a highly valuable scholarly resource
that touches on almost all the concerns
of contemporary historians of
nineteenth-century medicine. Social
History of Medicine
Part I: 3 Volume Set
1296pp: 234x156: 2012
978 1 84893 163 3: 275/$495
Part II: 3 Volume Set
1280pp: 234x156: 2013
978 1 84893 164 0: 275/$495

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Part I documents suicides from the


early modern period, including an
in-depth look at the Earl of Essexs
suicide in the Tower of London. Part II
considers changes and continuities in
the press accounts of the suicides of
important public figures, such as the
radical MP Samuel Whitbread; lawyer
and campaigner against the death
penalty, Samuel Romilly; and prime
minister, Lord Castlereagh.
Part I: 4 Volume Set
1584pp: 234x156: 2012
978 1 85196 980 7: 350/$625
Part II: 4 Volume Set
1808pp: 234x156: 2012
978 1 85196 981 4: 350/$625

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Depression and Melancholy,


16601800
General Editors: Leigh Wetherall
Dickson and Allan Ingram
As a psychiatric term depression
dates back only as far as the midnineteenth century. Before then a wide
range of terms were used. Melancholy
carried enormous weight, culturally
and medically and was one of the
two confirmed forms of eighteenthcentury insanity. This four-volume
primary resource collection is the
first large-scale study of depression
across an extensive period. Divided
chronologically, each volume
addresses a particular theme.
an excellent anthology suited for
introductory as well as advanced
purposes of study. BARS Bulletin
4 Volume Set
1264pp: 234x156: 2012
978 1 84893 086 5: 350/$625

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The History of Old Age in


England, 16001800

Eighteenth-Century British
Midwifery

Famine and Disease in


Ireland

Editors: Lynn Botelho, Susannah


R Ottaway and Anne Kugler
This eight-volume reset edition brings
together selections from medical
treatises, sermons, petitions, legal
documents, parish records, almshouse
accounts, private letters, diaries and
ballads, to investigate cultural and
medical understanding of old age in
pre-industrial England.

Editor: Pam Lieske


Scholars of the British Enlightenment
who study obstetrical history
traditionally focus on the rise of
the male-midwife and competition
between the sexes. By reprinting in
facsimile primary texts on eighteenthcentury midwifery and childbirth,
this comprehensive twelve-volume
collection gives readers a much
deeper, more nuanced understanding
of midwives, midwifery students and
women in labour.

Editors: Leslie Clarkson and


E Margaret Crawford
The Great Famine of 18459 remains
the great climacteric in Irish history.
Ireland without the Great Famine
would be an Ireland without an
emigrant history, without the Irish
Diaspora, without the tales of the
dispossessed, and without the myths
and realities that shape the culture of
the nation. The documents reproduced
in this collection are concerned with
Ireland up to and including the Great
Famine and are also relevant to the
contemporary world. They are used
to answer questions as to a countrys
vulnerability to famine, the reactions
of government and society, the causes
of death and the options available to
doctors and healthcare practitioners.

University libraries would do well to


purchase the collection, as many aspects
will be valuable for instructors who
offer research seminars in early modern
social history. Social History
Part I: 4 Volume Set
1232pp: 234x156: 2008
978 1 85196 869 5: 350/$625
Part II: 4 Volume Set
1584pp: 234x156: 2009
978 1 85196 870 1: 350/$625

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These books should be part of every


respectable library dealing with the
history of medicine in general and of
midwifery or obstetrics in particular.
Journal of the History of Medicine
and the Allied Sciences
Part I: 4 Volume Set
1600pp: 234x156: 2007
978 1 85196 842 8: 350/$625
Part II: 4 Volume Set
1632pp: 234x156: 2008
978 1 85196 843 5: 350/$625

The Correspondence of Dr
William Hunter
Editor: Helen Brock
Born in Scotland, William Hunter
pursued an extensive medical
education in Glasgow, Edinburgh,
London and Paris before settling in
London where he made his name as an
anatomist and obstetrician.
Hunters prominent position in
Londons scientific and artistic
circles, his extensive medical and
connoisseurial contacts in Scotland
and Europe and his network of
students, make his correspondence a
unique record of the Enlightenment.
This edition presents all of his
known correspondence, drawing
upon archives around the world. The
letters are presented chronologically
and interspersed with new editorial
material to create a fascinating
narrative about this important era of
medical and scientific discovery.
[Brocks] remorseless detective work in
tracking down letters and identifying
references in correspondence is evident
throughout these pages. Medical
History

Part III: 4 Volume Set


1968pp: 234x156: 2009
978 1 85196 874 9: 350/$625

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researchers on the history of medical


statistics, sanitary reform and the
politics of medicine in Ireland will all
find this a useful addition to the library
shelves. Irish Economic and Social
History Journal
5 Volume Set
2416pp: 234x156: 2005
978 1 85196 791 9: 450/$795

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Tea and the Tea-Table in


Eighteenth-Century England
General Editor: Markman Ellis
In the eighteenth century tea and
coffee were both recent arrivals to
English culture and commodities
of conspicuous and luxurious
consumption. Unlike coffee however,
tea retained its luxury status its high
cost and associated rarity making it a
favourite drink at Court.
This four-volume, reset collection
covers: tea in natural history
and medical writing; literary
representations of tea-drinking;
tea, commerce and the East India
Company; and the politics of tea.
4 Volume Set
1424pp: 234x156: 2010
978 1 84893 025 4: 350/$625

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The Pickering Masters


2 Volume Set
906pp: 234x156: 2008
978 1 85196 904 3: 225/$395

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