Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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The series is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from antiquity to the present, in all parts of the globe. Its interests include the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions, and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, pharmacy, biomedical science and vernacular healing come within its ambit; as do hospitals and hospices, patients and politicians, priests and pill-pushers, wise-women and witches, and all concerned with medicine in its widest sense. Methodologically, the series welcomes approaches derived from social history, as well as relevant studies in economic, cultural, and intellectual history. It also seeks to encourage historical work that employs the insights of related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, demography, and epidemiology, as well as literary, science, and policy studies.

The series is a collaboration between Pickering and Chatto and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM). The SSHM has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the histories of medicine, welfare, public health, demography, anthropology, sociology, social administration and health economics. Its membership is drawn from those interested in a variety of disciplines, including history of health, welfare, medical science and practice.

We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Send your proposals for edited collections to:
Dr David Cantor
Office of History
National Institutes of Health
Bldg 45, Room 3AN38, MSC 6330
Bethesda, MD 20892-6330
USA
cantord@mail.nih.gov
Tel: 301-402-8915 (Direct); 301-496-6610 (Office)
Fax: 301-402-1434

Send your proposals for authored monographs to:
Dr Keir Waddington
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Humanities Building, Room 4.33
Cardiff University
Colum Drive
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 3EU
waddingtonK@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel: 029 208 76103

Readership

History of Medicine, Social and Economic History, Historical Sociology and Anthropology

Editorial board

Dr David Cantor is Deputy Director of the Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Dr Keir Waddington is Head of History and Welsh History at the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University

Published titles

• Locating Health : Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health
• Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century
• Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000
• A Modern History of the Stomach : Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800–1950
• Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain : The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder
• War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793–1830

Forthcoming titles

• Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970

  Ali Haggett

  (March 2012)

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