Mark Jackson

Broschiertes Buch

Global History of Medicine

Beschreibung

A volume exploring the history of medicine across continents and countries from ancient to modern times, examining the changing systems of medicine in Eastern and Western traditions, comparing alternative medical practices, and introducing readers to how historians have captured the multiple approaches to healing adopted by different cultures.

Autor

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. He has served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine and Research Resources funding committees, as Senior Academic Advisor (Medical Humanities) to the Wellcome Trust, and as a member of the History sub-panel for REF 2014. He has taught modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy of science for over thirty years at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to both medical and history students, and has been involved in teaching medical history to GCSE and A level students. His books include The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (2011), The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2012), Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945-85 (ed., 2015), and The Routledge History of Disease (ed., 2016). He is currently writing a book on the history of the midlife crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9780198803188
• ISBN-10: 0198803184
• Artikelnr.: 49297700