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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. 3–7) in particular has plenty to offerthe scholar of medical history. For those with a particular

interest in the early-modern period our Body, Gender and

Culture series (pp. 7–8) 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. 9–10). The essays in Victorian Medicine and Popular

Culture explore how the rise of scientic medicine impacted

on various aspects of society, for example how medicine andthe medical profession came to be portrayed in crime ction of

the period.

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

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

Publishing Director

[email protected]

Insanity and theLunatic Asylum in the

Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Tomas Knowles

and Serena rowbridge

Number 36

P E S H

Victorian Medicineand Popular Culture

Edited by Louise Pennerand Tabitha Sparks

S C N C

Infanticide andAbortion in EarlyModern Germany

Margaret Brannan Lewis

T B, G C

Stress in Post-

War Britain

Edited by Mark Jackson

S S S H M


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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 collectionfocus on the relationship between

vaccines, vaccination policies and

nation states, across the last twocenturies. Key campaigns against

major diseases in Europe, West Africa,South and East Asia, and Northand South America are examined

in detail, to provide the rst trulyglobal study of vaccine controversies.Expert contributors provide a complex

historical analysis of vaccination that will be of interest to historians, publichealth scholars and policy makers.

Contributors

Jaime Benchimol, Niels Brimnes,

Ana María Carrillo, Eun Kyung Choi,Britta Lundgren, Bill Muraskin,

Young-Gyung Paik, Elisha Renne,

Anna Smajdor, Andrea Stöckl,

Dora Vargha and Julia Yongue

Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicinec.256pp: 234x156: November 2015HB 978 1 84893 583 9: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/vaccination

The Rockefeller Foundation,

Public Health and

International Diplomacy,

1920–1945

Josep L Barona

In the years after the First World

War, living conditions across muchof Europe were poor, and publichealth authorities were forced to

focus on social issues such as diet andsanitation. Based on extensive archivalresearch, this study examines the role

of the Rockefeller Foundation and theLeague of Nations in improving publichealth during the interwar period.

Barona argues that the Foundationapplied a model of business efciencyto its ideology of spreading good

health: dening problems, identifyingopportunities and aiming at achievable

goals, creating a revolution in publichealth practice.

Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicinec.256pp: 234x156: July 2015HB 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 thenation was of primary concern to theBritish government. The essays in thiscollection examine the relationship

between health and stress in post-warBritain through a series of carefullyconnected 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 Medicinec.256pp: 234x156: June 2015HB 978 1 84893 473 3: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/stress

The Development of Scientic

Marketing in the Twentieth

Century: Research for Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Editors: Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ulrike Thoms

The global pharmaceutical industry iscurrently estimated to be worth$1 trillion. Contributors to this volume

chart the rise of scientic marketing within the industry between 1920and 1980. Case studies cover thedevelopment of new drugs such as the

contraceptive pill, and the ever closerintegration of clinical research withsubsequent marketing campaigns.

Contributors

Christian Bonah, Tricia Close-Koenig,

Stephan Felder, Lucie Gerber, Nils Kessel,

Lisa Malich, Anne-Sophie Mazas andQuentin Ravelli

Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine: 22288pp: 234x156: March 2015HB 978 1 84893 559 4: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/marketing

Psychiatry and Chinese

History

Editor: Howard Chiang

This collection examines psychiatricmedicine in China across the early

modern and modern periods. Essaysfocus on the diagnosis, treatment andcultural implications of madness and

mental illness and explore the complextrajectory of the medicalization of themind 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

ContributorsGeoffrey 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: 21288pp: 234x156: 2014HB 978 1 84893 438 2: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/psychiatrychina

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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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Institutionalizing the Insane

in Nineteenth-Century

England

Anna Shepherd

The nineteenth century broughtan increased awareness of mental

disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. The desireto contain or cure the aficted ledto an unprecedented growth of

asylums across England and Wales.Shepherd compares and contraststwo very different institutions to

provide a nuanced account of thenineteenth-century mental healthsystem. 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


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The Politics of Hospital

Provision in Early Twentieth-

Century 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 socialfactors which varied from place toplace. Ultimately, Doyle argues that

social and economic diversity createda 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


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Health and Citizenship: PoliticalCultures of Health in Modern Europe

Editors: Frank Huisman and

Harry Oosterhuis

Following the Second World War,

health was dened by a numberof international organizations as a

universal human right. It was thisfundamental principle that led to thedevelopment of modern-day systemsof collective funding, and health is

now at the top of the global politicalagenda. Contributors examine theextent to which the state can interfere

with the private lives of its citizens, therole of individual responsibility and ifany 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, Jörg Vögele and Kaat Wils


www.pickeringchatto.com/citizenship

Bacteria in Britain,

1880–1939

Rosemary Wall

Focusing on the years between theidentication of bacteria and theproduction of antibiotic drugs, Wall

presents a study into how medical bacteriology was integrated within both clinical practice and public

knowledge. Using a series of casestudies, she demonstrates how

physicians began to use bacteriologyas a diagnostic tool and how thepublic and lawyers argued aboutresponsibility for bacterial diseases

in workplaces and local communities. Wall examines particular outbreaksof anthrax and typhoid in detail,

addressing issues of local politics andpublic health.

‘Wall's book clearly delivers a very

signicant 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: 2013HB 978 1 84893 427 6: £60/$99

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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 raisedspecic scientic, industrial, medicaland legal issues. Each essay deals witha case study of a biologic substance, or

group of biologics, and its use duringthe twentieth century.

‘Historians who did not know they were

interested in biologics should take this

book seriously.’ Isis

ContributorsKlaus Angerer, Beat Bächi, Sven Bergmann,

Sophie Chauveau, Jean-Paul Gaudillière,

Christoph Gradmann, Lea Haller, Pim

Huijnen, Jonathan Simon and Ulrike Thoms


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Human Heredity in the

Twentieth Century

Editors: Bernd Gausemeier,

Staffan Müller-Wille and

Edmund RamsdenContributors explore the interaction

of science, medicine and society indetermining how heredity was viewedacross the world during the politically

turbulent years of the twentiethcentury.

‘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, María Jesús Santesmases,

Edna Suárez-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/$99www.pickeringchatto.com/heredity


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Western Maternity and

Medicine, 1880–1990

Editors: Janet Greenlees and

Linda Bryder

The contributors to this collectionlook into the experiences of womenin the Western world going through

pregnancy and birth over the lasthundred years. Essays explore theimpact of the professionalization of

the medical services, the factors thatinuenced women's decisions overtheir choice of health care and whether

childbirth was seen as a natural or amedical event.

‘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


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Modern German Midwifery,

1885–1960

Lynne Anne Fallwell

Between the late eighteenth and

the early twentieth century, theindustrialized world experienced atransition in birth practices from the

holistic ‘wise woman’ midwife to themale medical specialist. While in manycountries this gendered struggle led

to a separation of midwifery from therest of modern medicine, in Germanymidwives took an active role in the

transition from traditional practiceto modern institutionalized healthcare. Fallwell explores this transition

and sets it in its wider socio-historicalcontext, including the role of print

culture and the changes that occurred before, during and after the Naziregime.


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Child Guidance in Britain,

1918–1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood

John Stewart

Stewart presents a history of childguidance literature in Britain fromits origins in the years after the First

World War until the consolidation ofthe welfare state. Concepts widely usedin this guidance also played a part in

broader social and cultural perceptionsof what constituted a child’s healthyemotional and psychological

development. This is the rst studyof child guidance in this important

period and makes a signicantcontribution 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


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The Care of Older People: England and Japan, A Comparative Study

Mayumi Hayashi Across the globe, populations are

getting older. Britain and Japanare examples of two rapidly ageingsocieties, 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 theJapanese obasuteyama (granny-dumpmountain) and is often viewed as a

last resort. Based on extensive archivalresearch and oral testimony, Hayashi

sets policy and practice at the national,regional and local levels in theirhistorical contexts, offering a uniquecomparison 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


www.pickeringchatto.com/care

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 diseasesare often perceived as contagious, as

well as indicative of immorality. Suchconnotations may have stemmed fromthe buboes of syphilis, but the social

stigma of disgurement is somethingthat still exists today. These essaysuse case studies to chart the medicalhistory 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


www.pickeringchatto.com/skin

Toxicants, Health and

Regulation since 1945

Editors: Soraya Boudia andNathalie Jas

The number of potentially dangeroussubstances is constantly increasing.

Though governments have introducedmeasures to protect us, growth andnew developments in science and

technology mean that we are at greaterrisk of exposure to toxic materials than

at any time in history. The papers inthis volume examine the concurrentrise of pollutants and the regulationsdesigned to police their use.

‘well written and provides extensive

documentation. Recommended.’

CHOICE

Contributors

Emmanuel Henry, Michelle Murphy,

Christopher Sellers, Sezin Topçu and

Didier Torny

Studies for the Society for the Social History of

Medicine: 9208pp: 234x156: 2013HB 978 1 84893 403 0: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/toxicants


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Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979

Editors: Anne Borsay and

Pamela Dale

The care of disabled children has

always been contested. From themiddle of the nineteenth century

families were increasingly encouraged,even coerced, to engage with approvedhealth and education services.These essays follow a chronological

progression while focusing on practicein 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

María José Báguena, Rosa Ballester,

Staffan Förhammar, Corrine Manning,Mike Mantin, José Martínez-Pérez,

Lee-Ann Monk, Marie C Nelson, María

Isabel Porras, Amy Rebok Rosenthal,

Matthew Smith, Pat Starkey, Steven

Thompson, Angela Turner and

Sue Wheatcroft


www.pickeringchatto.com/disabled

Desperate Housewives,

Neuroses and the Domestic

Environment, 1945–1970

Ali Haggett

The historical association betweenfemininity and neurosis is welldocumented. Many recent studies have

seen women’s mental health issuesin the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of

a lack of opportunity and the banalityof a domestic lifestyle. Although the

gure of the ‘desperate housewife’ isfamiliar to us, Haggett suggests thatmany women in the 1950s and 1960sled satisfying lives and that gender

roles, while very different, were oftenseen 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


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Nervous Disease in Late

Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

Heather R Beatty

This study, based on extensive useof eighteenth-century newspapers,hospital registers and case notes,

examines the experience of sufferingfrom nervous disease – a supposedlyupper-class malady. Beatty concludes

that, far from the stereotypedportrayal of nervous patients in

contemporary ction, ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a rm basis in eighteenth-centurymedical theory.

‘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


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War and the Militarization

of British Army Medicine,1793–1830

Catherine Kelly

Drawing on rare manuscript sources,

Kelly examines how nearly twenty-ve years of sustained warfare affectedthe professional identity embraced

by British doctors and thoroughlymilitarized their approach to medicine.She demonstrates the emergence of

the ‘military medical ofcer’ and placestheir work within the broader contextof changes to British medicine during

the rst 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


www.pickeringchatto.com/armymedicine

A Modern History of the

Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicineand British Society, 1800–1950

Ian Miller

This study is the rst exploration ofthe complex relationship betweenthe abdomen and modern British

society. It traces the development ofthe management of gastric conditions by various, often competing, members

of the medical profession, detailingconict between the ideas and valuesof surgeons, physicians, psychologists

and gastroenterologists.

‘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 scientic history’ Isis


www.pickeringchatto.com/stomach

Medicine in the Remote and

Rural North, 1800–2000

Editors: J T H Connor and

Stephan Curtis

This volume of thirteen essays focuseson the health and treatment of thepeoples of northern Europe and

North America over the course of thenineteenth 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,Sören Edvinsson, Marianne Junila,

Linda Kealey, Francis King, Øivind Larsen,

Sasha Mullally, Mette Rønsager and

Teemu Ryymin


www.pickeringchatto.com/remote


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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 onthe dynamic relationship between

health and place. Through diverseexamples and perspectives, thecontributions offer new conceptualand methodological insights,

enhancing both elds.

‘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, MaureenLux, Stephen Mawdsley, Sasha Mullally,

Liza Piper, Jonathan Reinarz, Matthew

Smith, Susan Smith, Helen Vallianatos and

Marko Zivkovic


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Meat, Medicine and Human

Health in the Twentieth

Century

Editors: David Cantor, Christian

Bonah and Matthias Dörries

These essays explore the

relationship between the meat andthe pharmaceutical industries,the slaughterhouse and the rise of

endocrinology, the therapeutic benetsof meat extracts and the short-lived fate of liver ice-cream in the

treatment of pernicious anaemia. Theyhighlight a complicated array of oftencontradictory 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 Gaudillière, Susan Lederer,

Ilana Lowy, Naomi Pfeffer,

Jeffrey M Pilcher, Donald D Stull,

Ulrike Thoms and Keir Waddington


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Infanticide and Abortion in

Early Modern Germany

Margaret Brannan LewisUsing a wide range of contemporary

sources, Lewis presents a nuancedstudy into the changing nature ofinfanticide in Germany over three

centuries. Infanticide and abortion were complex crimes with a variety ofcauses, perpetrators and punishments.

These crimes and the reaction to themare placed in the wider context of theperiod.

The Body, Gender and Culturec.256pp: 234x156: December 2015HB 978 1 84893 554 9: £60/$99

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Sex, Identity and

Hermaphrodites in Iberia,

1500–1800

Richard Cleminson andFrancisco Vázquez García

Early modern European thought held

that men and women were essentiallythe same, with social forces creating

their differences. Such a view madethe existence of hermaphrodites easyto accept. During the seventeenthcentury, medical and legal arguments

began to turn against this ‘one-sex’model, with hermaphroditism seenas a medieval superstition. This

book traces this change in Iberia incomparison to the earlier shift inthought in northern Europe, and with

concurrent ideas in Latin America.

The Body, Gender and Culture: 16224pp: 234x156: 2013HB 978 1 84893 302 6: £60/$99

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The Body,Gender andCulture

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.

www.pickeringchatto.com/sshm10

Studies for the Societyfor the Social Historyof Medicine 1–10Series Editors: David Cantor and Keir Waddington

Contains: Meat, Medicine and

Human Health in the TwentiethCentury; Locating Health;

Medicine in the Remote and Rural

North, 1800–2000; A Modern History of the Stomach; War andthe Militarization of British Army

Medicine, 1793–1830; Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Desperate Housewives,

Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970; DisabledChildren; Toxicants, Health and

Regulation since 1945; A Medical

History of Skin10 Volume Set2588pp: 234x156: 2013978 1 84893 475 7: £500/$840

Save £100/$150 on theindividual volume price


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The Study of Anatomy in

Britain, 1700–1900

Fiona Hutton

Before the 1832 Anatomy Act the

only legal source of cadavers formedical use was the bodies of executedmurderers. As anatomy became the

dominant medical discipline of thenineteenth century, the need for bodies as a teaching tool increased

exponentially. Hutton looks atManchester and Oxford to providea comparative history of anatomical

study. The Appendix provides datarelating to numbers of medicalstudents and availability of bodies

compiled directly from contemporaryrecords.

‘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


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The Politics of Reproduction

in Ottoman Society,1838–1900

Gülhan Balsoy

Epidemics, migration and territoriallosses led to population decline in

early nineteenth-century Turkey.In response, Ottoman elites begana programme of population growth,

based on increased birth rate andreduced infant mortality. Threepolicies were initiated to achieve this:

the professionalization of midwives, a ban on abortion and greater medical

care during pregnancy. Balsoy usespreviously untapped archival sourcesto examine these developments,arguing that these changes caused

reproduction to become a politicalexperience.

‘[We] heartily recommend the book to

experts on nineteenth-century medicine

and gender’’ Isis


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Age and Identity in

Eighteenth-Century England

Helen Yallop

Aging is a fundamental aspect of the

human condition, yet different erashave understood it in very different ways and suggested very different

means of dening, measuring andimproving it. Yallop looks at howpeople in eighteenth-century England

understood the lifelong process ofgrowing older, in order to reconstructa set of ideas about age, bodies,

identity and change. Advances inscience and medicine at this timemeant that scholars and doctors could

investigate why the body got older,how aging was experienced and what

the aging body signied in society.

‘Historians of the body and medicine will

welcome this signicant contribution to

the history of ageing.’ Social History

of Medicine


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Anatomy and the

Organization of Knowledge,

1500–1850

Editors: Matthew Landers and

Brian Muñoz

Across early modern Europe,the growing scientic practiceof dissection prompted new and

insightful ideas about the human body.This collection of essays explores theimpact of anatomical knowledge on

wider issues of learning and culture.

Contributors

Kevin L Cope, Nick Davis, Touba Ghadessi,

Jérôme Goffette, Craig Ashley Hanson,

Hisao Ishizuka, Filippo Pierpaolo Marino,Sarah Parker, Jonathan Simon, Mauro

Spicci, Ionut Untea, Amy Witherbee and

Charles T Wolfe


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Old Age and Disease in Early

Modern Medicine

Daniel Schäfer

This book looks at the historical roots

of the debate surrounding old age anddisease. It explores the topic from a variety of perspectives, using medical,

literary and legal sources. Schäferexamines over 160 Latin texts fromEurope and America to challenge

medical conceptions of old age duringthe early modern period.

‘provides an impressively

knowledgeable and comprehensive

assessment of the understanding of old

age throughout the early modern period

and across Europe.’ Early Modern

Medicine


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Paracelsus’s Theory of

Embodiment: Conception andGestation in Early Modern Europe

Amy Eisen Cislo

During his lifetime Paracelsus

produced a signicant body of workthat includes ruminations about

alchemy, health, healing, mineralogy,theology and nature. Cislo arguesthat to understand his oevre, modernscholars need to think beyond modern

categories of science and theology. Byfocusing on the themes of conception

and gestation, she explores howParacelsus’s theological and medicalinterests 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


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Adolphe Quetelet, Social

Physics and the Average Men

of Science, 1796–1874

Kevin Donnelly

Adolphe Quetelet was an inuentialscientist whose controversial work onsocial physics was praised by American

reformers, but condemned by JohnStuart Mill and Charles Dickens. Hislong and distinguished career brought

him into contact with many of the Victorian intellectual elite, including

Goethe, Malthus, Babbage, Herscheland Faraday. His theories even helpedinspire Dostoyevsky to write Crimeand Punishment . Donnelly presentsthe rst scholarly biography ofQuetelet, exploring his contribution to

quantitative reasoning and his placein nineteenth-century intellectualhistory.

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Centuryc.256pp: 234x156: June 2015HB 978 1 84893 568 6: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/quetelet

Victorian Medicine and

Popular Culture

Editors: Louise Penner and

Tabitha Sparks

This collection of essays exploresthe rise of scientic medicine and itsimpact on Victorian popular culture.

Chapters include an examination ofCharles Dickens’s involvement withhospital funding, concerns over milk

purity and the theatrical portrayal ofdrug addiction, plus a whole sectiondevoted to the representation of

medicine in crime ction. This isan interdisciplinary study involvingpublic health, cultural studies, the

history of medicine, literature and thetheatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society.

Contributors

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 Centuryc.256pp: 234x156: June 2015HB 978 1 84893 569 3: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/vmpc

The Medical Trade Catalogue

in Britain, 1870–1914

Claire L Jones

By the late nineteenth century,advances in medical knowledge,

technology and pharmaceuticalsled to the development of a thriving

commercial industry. The medicaltrade catalogue became one of themost important means of promoting

the latest tools and techniques topractitioners. Drawing on over 400catalogues produced between 1870

and 1914, Jones presents a studyof the changing nature of medical

professionalism. She examines theuse of the catalogue in connectingthe previously separate worlds ofmedicine and commerce and discusses

its importance to the study of printhistory 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: 22256pp: 234x156: 2013

HB 978 1 84893 443 6: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/medicat

The Making of Modern

Anthrax, 1875–1920: Uniting Local, National and Global

Histories of Disease

James F Stark

From the mid-nineteenth centuryonwards a number of previously

unknown conditions were recordedin both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in

diverse locations, by the end of thecentury these diseases were unitedunder the banner of ‘anthrax’. Stark

examines anthrax in terms of local,national and global signicance, andconstructs a narrative that spans

public, professional and geographicdomains.

‘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

medicine’ Medical History

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 21272pp: 234x156: 2013HB 978 1 84893 446 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/anthrax

Vision, Science and

Literature, 1870–1920: Ocular Horizons

Martin Willis

Willis explores the role of vision andthe culture of observation in Victorian

and modernist ways of seeing. Hecharts the characterization of visionthrough four organizing principles

– small, large, past and future – tosurvey Victorian conceptions of what vision was. He then explores how this

Victorian vision inuenced twentieth-century ways of seeing, when

anxieties over visual ‘truth’ becameentwined with modernist rejections ofobjectivity.

‘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: 2011HB 978 1 84893 234 0: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/ocular

www.pickeringchatto.com/scienceculture

Science andCulture in the

NineteenthCentury

Series Editor: Bernard Lightman

Includes studies of major

developments within the disciplines

as well as works on popular science.

The evolution of scientic ideas is

placed in its social, political, religious,

cultural, imperial and international

contexts.


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Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School

in Crisis, 1875–7

Nigel Richardson

Richardson explores public health

strategy and central-local governmentrelations during the mid-nineteenth

century, using Uppingham as a casestudy. This study illuminates widerthemes in Victorian public medicine,

including the difculty of diagnosingtyphoid before breakthroughs in bacteriological research, the problemsfaced in implementing reform and the

length of time it took London ideasand practice to lter into rural areas.

‘meticulously researched and carefully

analysed ... manages to illuminate the

wider picture of medicine and public

health in rural England in the mid-

Victorian period.’ Victorian Studies

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 5 288pp: 234x156: 2008HB 978 1 85196 991 3: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/typhoid

Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Henry Head

L S Jacyna

This is the rst in-depth study of theEnglish neurologist and polymath

Sir Henry Head (1861–1940). Head bridged the gap between science andthe arts. He was a published poet who

had close links with such gures asThomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon, whilst his research into the nervous

system and the relationship betweenlanguage and the brain broke newground. Jacyna argues that these

advances must be contextualized within wider Modernist debates aboutperception and language.

‘Jacyna has given us an accomplished,

scholarly, and insightful account of an

era.’ Brain

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 6353pp: 234x156: 2008HB 978 1 85196 907 4: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/henryhead

Sanitation in Urban Britain,

1560–1700

Leona Jayne Skelton

Popular belief holds that throwing

the contents of a chamber pot intothe street was a common occurrenceduring the early modern period. In

this rst comparative analysis oftowns and cities across England andScotland, Skelton demonstrates that

this was not the case. Using a widerange of public and private recordsand by examining contemporary

environmental regulations, this studyshows that individuals, local councilsand national government invested

signicant amounts of time, effortand resources into maintaining cleanstreets and civic spaces.

Perspectives in Economic and Social History

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

www.pickeringchatto.com/sanitation

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 signicant advancements intreatment and care. The essays in this

collection look at the asylum fromthe perspective of the place itself – itsarchitecture, 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, AmandaFinelli, Helen Goodman, Kostas Makras,

Bernard Melling, Shawn Phillips, Jennifer

Wallis, Will Wiles and Rebecca Wynter

Perspectives in Economic and Social History: 36256pp: 234x156: 2014HB 978 1 84893 452 8: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/insanity

Drink in the Eighteenth and

Nineteenth Centuries

Editors: Susanne Schmid and

Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

The two hundred years covered in this volume saw the emergence of urbanpublic places connecting drinking and

sociability. The case studies exploredrinking culture from a variety ofperspectives, including literature,

history, anthropology and the historyof medicine.

‘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 Müller- Wood, Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann, Jonathan

Reinarz, Caroline Rosenthal, Elmar

Schenkel, John Carter Wood, Rebecca

Wynter and Eva-Sabine Zehelein


www.pickeringchatto.com/drink

Residential Institutions in

Britain, 1725–1970: Inmates and Environments

Editors: Jane Hamlett, LesleyHoskins and Rebecca Preston

The essays in this collection exploreorganizational intentions andinhabitants’ experiences in a diverse

range of British residential institutionsduring a period when such provision was dramatically increasing. The book

addresses inmates, environments andinteractions, with essays focusing onquestions 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: 2013HB 978 1 84893 366 8: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/inmates


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Welfare and Old Age in

Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance

Editor: Bernard Harris

Over the last twenty years, historianshave become increasingly interestedin the role of non-state organizations

in the development of welfare services.This study is particularly focused onthe role of friendly societies and other

insurance bodies in the provision ofaid for the elderly and the sick.

‘a very useful collection of well-

researched 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 León-Sanz, Jerònia Pons Pons,

Danièle Rigter, Margarita Vilar Rodríguez,

Jochen Streb, Paolo Tedeschi and

Robert A A Vonk


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Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870–1950

Mazie Hough

Drawing extensively from agency

records, newspaper accounts,sociological studies and courtdocuments, Hough explores the

experiences of rural white unwedmothers 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: 2010HB 978 1 85196 400 0: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/unwed

Sentiment and the Magdalen

Hospital: Luxury, Virtue and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Mary Peace

Sentimentalism became popularin the eighteenth century, part ofthe philosophical idea that truth

is founded on emotion or moralsentiment. Peace uses the LondonMagdalen Hospital for Penitent

Prostitutes as a prism through which to explore the sentimental writing of this period. She charts

the moral struggle between luxuryand libertinism, and shows howthe sentimental narrative used by

writers including Fielding, Sterne andRousseau was appropriated by radicalssuch as Mary Wollstonecraft and

Amelia Opie.

c.256pp: 234x156: February 2016HB 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

inuential in the analysis of space in a variety of disciplines, most notably in

geography and politics. This collectionof essays is the rst to focus on whatFoucault termed ‘heterotopias’, spacesthat exhibit multiple layers of meaning

and reveal tensions within society.Contributors explore the concept ofheterotopia by examining a range of

contested spaces, including oatingasylums, hospitals, nomadic camps, wind farms and national borders.

Contributors

Stella Bolaki, Tom Bristow, Iain Chambers,

Fabienne Collignon, Abdulrazak Gurnah,

Diane Morgan, Mauro Pala and

Zoë Wicomb

240pp: 234x156: March 2015HB 978 1 84893 462 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/heterotopia

Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and

South Africa

Editor: Poonam Bala

Focusing on India and South Africa

during the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies, the essays in this collection

address power and enforcedmodernity as applied to medicine.Clashes between traditional methodsof healing and the practices brought in

by colonizers are explored across bothterritories.

‘Anyone interested in the mechanics of

medical colonialism and its persistent

impacts, meanings and interactions,

will benet 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: 22240pp: 234x156: 2014HB 978 1 84893 465 8: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/colonialmedicine

Picturing Women’s Health

Editors: Francesca Scott,

Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung

The essays in this collectionexamine women in diverse roles;mother, socialite, celebrity, medical

practitioner and patient. The widerange of commentators allows a

diverse picture of women’s health inthis period. Findings are discussed within the historical, medical,

sociological, literary and art historical

contexts of the period to make a trulyinterdisciplinary 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: 2014HB 978 1 84893 424 5: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/picturing


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Sex, Reproduction and

Darwinism

Editors: Filomena de Sousa and

Gonzalo Munévar

This collection of essays looks atsexuality and reproduction from anevolutionary perspective. Covering

experimental discoveries as well astheoretical investigations, the volumeexplores the relationship between

evolution and other areas of human behaviour.

‘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: 2012HB 978 1 84893 264 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/reproduction

Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity,

1721–1814

Kelly McGuire

McGuire examines the presentationof suicide within the genre of the

eighteenth-century novel as both afeminine action and a declaration ofnational identity. She argues that the

cultural medium of the novel affordsa space to examine representations of

suicide, as female characters do notmerely take their lives in these works but sacrice themselves to another orto a larger cause.

‘proves the reward of bringing multiple

disciplinary lenses to bear upon the

phenomenon of suicide and its broad

cultural resonance.’ Eighteenth-

Century Fiction

Gender and Genre: 8304pp: 234x156: 2012HB 978 1 84893 110 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/dying

Organisms and Personal

Identity: Individuation and the Workof David Wiggins

A M Ferner

David Wiggins’s contribution tometaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but the connections

between his work and recent issues inthe philosophy of biology have beenoverlooked. This study demonstrates

how Wiggins’s work can contribute to,as well as benet from, contemporary

debate in this eld. Biologicalindividuality, anti-reductionismand natural kind determinism areamong the topics explored, along with

an overview of the history of braintransplantation.

History and Philosophy of Biologyc.256pp: 234x156: June 2016

HB 978 1 84893 573 0: £60/$99www.pickeringchatto.com/organisms

Romantic Biology, 1890–1945

Maurizio Esposito

Emerging over the late nineteenthand early twentieth centuries,organismal biology stemmed not

from the work of Darwin and hiscircle, but was inspired by Romanticnatural philosophers, embryologists,

anatomists and physiologists. Espositopresents a historiography of organicistand 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 historyand 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: 1272pp: 234x156: 2013HB 978 1 84893 420 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/organismal

Research Objects in their

Technological Setting

Editors: Bernadette Bensaude-

Vincent, Sacha Loeve, AlfredNordmann and Astrid Schwarz

By examining objects that hold aprominent place in contemporary

science and technology, contributorsto this collection present a newdirection in the philosophy of

technoscience. Core concepts fromresearch in emerging disciplinessuch as nanotechnology, molecular

medicine and the environmentalsciences are explored via a diverserange of object-based case studies.

Objects are wide-ranging and include Arctic ice cores, stem cells, heroinand nuclear waste, but all testify to

technological innovation.

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 Technosciencec.256pp: 234x156: October 2015HB 978 1 84893 584 6: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/objects

Reasoning in Measurement

Editors: Nicola Mößner and Alfred Nordmann

How can we measure intelligenceor quality of life? Building on recent

developments in the sciences, thiscollection offers new understanding ofthe epistemology of measurement. The

case studies foster important dialogue between disparate elds, exploringdiverse topics such as brain imaging,

sexual orientation and seismology. By

taking an interdisciplinary perspective,these essays highlight the signicanceof both qualitative and quantitativeapproaches to scientic 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 Schöttler, Eran Tal,

Thomas Vogt and Laura Dassow Walls

History and Philosophy of Technosciencec.256pp: 234x156: September 2015HB 978 1 84893 602 7: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/measurement2


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Scientists’ Expertise as

Performance: Between State and Society, 1860–1960

Editors: Joris Vandendriessche,

Evert Peeters and Kaat Wils

The essays in this collection exploreour reliance on experts within a

historical context and across a widerange of elds, including agriculture,engineering, health sciences and

labour management. Contributorsargue that experts were highlyaware of their audiences and used

performance to gain both scienticand popular support.

ContributorsJennifer Karns Alexander, Katja Bruisch,

Raf de Bont, Margo De Koster, David Freis,

Graeme Gooday, Frank Huisman, Martin

Kohlrausch, Per Lundin, David Niget,

Niklas Stenlås and Martin Theaker

History and Philosophy of Technoscience: 6c.256pp: 234x156: April 2015HB 978 1 84893 527 3: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/expertise

The Future of Scientic

Practice: 'Bio-Techno-Logos'

Editor: Marta Bertolaso

Focusing on cell dynamics,

molecular medicine and robotics,contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological andtheoretical ways of thinking. They

argue that the direction of modernscience means that these areas can no

longer be explored independently butmust be integrated if we are to betterunderstand the world.

Contributors

Dino Accoto, Marco Buzzoni, Federico

Boem, Giovanni Boniolo, Antonio Diéguez,

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 2015HB 978 1 84893 562 4: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/BTL

Monstrous Births and Visual

Culture in Sixteenth-Century

Germany

Jennifer Spinks

Physically deformed children andanimals were a source of fascination

and fear in early modern Europe. Thisstudy is an examination of printedrepresentations of monstrous birthsin German-speaking Europe from the

end of the fteenth and through thesixteenth 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: 2009HB 978 1 85196 630 1: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/monstrousbirths

Breast Cancer in the

Eighteenth Century

Marjo Kaartinen

Early modern physicians and surgeons

tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicinesand radically improving operating

techniques. Kaartinen explores theemotional responses of patients andtheir 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 eld of

medical history.’ Social History of

Medicine

Studies for the International Society for Cultural History: 4256pp: 234x156: 2013HB 978 1 84893 364 4: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/cancer

Liberating Medicine,

1720–1835

Editors: Tristanne Connolly and

Steve Clark

During the eighteenth centurymedicine became an autonomousdiscipline and practice. Surgeons

justied themselves as skilledpractitioners and set themselves

apart from the 'barber-surgeons' ofearly modernity. The essays in thiscollection focus on a range of medicalnarratives including Daniel Defoe on

plague and public perceptions of theKing's mental illness.

ContributorsJames Robert Allard, Gavin Budge,

David Chandler, Megan Coyer, Molly

Desjardins, George C Grinnell, Hisao

Ishizuka, Clark Lawlor, Susan Matthews,

Kimiyo Ogawa, Sharon Ruston, Aris

Saraanos, Richard C Sha and Wayne Wild

The Enlightenment World: 10320pp: 234x156: 2009HB 978 1 85196 632 5: £60/$99

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 ofthe liberal literary-medical cultureof the Scottish Enlightenment. They

used poetry as an accessible form tocommunicate emerging psychological,cultural and moral ideas.

The Enlightenment World: 9304pp: 234x156: 2009HB 978 1 85196 955 5: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/reason

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 thelarge, 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: 2007HB 978 1 85196 923 4: £60/$99

www.pickeringchatto.com/alchemists


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Memoirs of the Court of

George III

General Editor: Michael Kassler

George III was one of the longestreigning British monarchs, rulingover most of the English-speaking world from 1760 to 1820. Despite his

longevity, George’s reign was one ofturmoil. Britain lost its colonies in the War of American Independence and

the European political system changeddramatically in the wake of theFrench Revolution. Closer to home,

problems with the King’s health led toa constitutional crisis.

This edition presents four rst-hand

accounts which record signicantevents, including the American andFrench Revolutions and the ‘madness’

of George III.

4 Volume Setc.1664pp: 234x156: March 2015978 1 84893 469 6: £350/$625

www.pickeringchatto.com/george

The Miscellaneous Writings

of Tobias Smollett

Editors: O M Brack , Leslie Chilton and Walter H Keithley

Tobias Smollett (1721–71) is bestknown as a novelist; however this

prolic and talented author was alsoa notable historian, literary critic,translator, medical writer and satirist.

This volume will help us to reassess

our understanding of Smollett bypresenting some of his most signicantmiscellaneous writings in a new

critical edition. Most of these textshave not been republished since theeighteenth century. This edition is the

nal work of distinguished Smollettscholar, O M Brack, Jr (1938–2012).

The Pickering Mastersc.400pp: 234x156: May 2015HB 978 1 84893 503 7: £100/$180

www.pickeringchatto.com/smollett

Sanitary Reform in Victorian

Britain

General Editor: Michelle Allen-

Emerson

Sanitary reform was one of the great

debates of the nineteenth century.Unprecedented urban growth

signicantly increased the spread ofdisease, presenting new challengesto public health. This edition makes

available for the rst time a modern,edited collection of rare nineteenth-century documents specically

addressing sanitary reform. It includesmaterial on Glasgow, Edinburgh,Manchester, Dublin and London,

giving a nationwide perspective on theconditions of British urban life.

‘a highly valuable scholarly resource

that touches on almost all the concerns

of contemporary historians ofnineteenth-century medicine.’ Social

History of Medicine

Part I: 3 Volume Set1296pp: 234x156: 2012978 1 84893 163 3: £275/$495

Part II: 3 Volume Set1280pp: 234x156: 2013978 1 84893 164 0: £275/$495

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The History of Suicide in

England, 1650–1850

Editors: Mark Robson, Paul S

Seaver, Kelly McGuire, JeffreyMerrick and Daryl Lee

This edition draws together a rangeof sources from the early modern

era through to the industrial age, toshow the changes and continuitiesin responses to the social, political,

legal and spiritual problems thatself-murder posed, and to illustratethe nature of the lively and vibrant

contemporary debates about anddepictions of suicide.

Part I documents suicides from the

early modern period, including anin-depth look at the Earl of Essex’ssuicide in the Tower of London. Part II

considers changes and continuities inthe press accounts of the suicides of

important public gures, such as theradical MP Samuel Whitbread; lawyerand campaigner against the deathpenalty, Samuel Romilly; and prime

minister, Lord Castlereagh.



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Depression and Melancholy,

1660–1800

General Editors: Leigh Wetherall

Dickson and Allan Ingram

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide

range of terms were used. ‘Melancholy’carried enormous weight, culturallyand medically and was one of the

two conrmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volumeprimary resource collection is the

rst large-scale study of depressionacross an extensive period. Dividedchronologically, each volume

addresses a particular theme.

‘an excellent anthology suited for

introductory as well as advanced

purposes of study.’ BARS Bulletin

4 Volume Set1264pp: 234x156: 2012978 1 84893 086 5: £350/$625

www.pickeringchatto.com/melancholy


Major WorksPickering & Chatto’s 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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The History of Old Age in

England, 1600–1800

Editors: Lynn Botelho, Susannah

R Ottaway and Anne Kugler

This eight-volume reset edition bringstogether selections from medicaltreatises, sermons, petitions, legal

documents, parish records, almshouseaccounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and

medical understanding of old age inpre-industrial England.

‘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



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The Correspondence of Dr

William Hunter

Editor: Helen Brock

Born in Scotland, William Hunter

pursued an extensive medicaleducation in Glasgow, Edinburgh,

London and Paris before settling inLondon where he made his name as ananatomist and obstetrician.

Hunter’s prominent position in

London’s scientic and artisticcircles, his extensive medical andconnoisseurial contacts in Scotland

and Europe and his network ofstudents, make his correspondence aunique record of the Enlightenment.

This edition presents all of hisknown correspondence, drawingupon archives around the world. The

letters are presented chronologicallyand interspersed with new editorialmaterial to create a fascinating

narrative about this important era ofmedical and scientic discovery.

‘[Brock’s] remorseless detective work in

tracking down letters and identifying

references in correspondence is evident

throughout these pages.’ Medical

History

The Pickering Masters2 Volume Set906pp: 234x156: 2008

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Eighteenth-Century British

Midwifery

Editor: Pam Lieske

Scholars of the British Enlightenment

who study obstetrical historytraditionally focus on the rise ofthe male-midwife and competition

between the sexes. By reprinting infacsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth,

this comprehensive twelve-volumecollection gives readers a muchdeeper, more nuanced understanding

of midwives, midwifery students and women in labour.

‘These books should be part of every

respectable library dealing with the

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Journal of the History of Medicine

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Tea and the Tea-Table inEighteenth-Century England

General Editor: Markman Ellis

In the eighteenth century tea andcoffee were both recent arrivals to

English culture and commoditiesof conspicuous and luxuriousconsumption. Unlike coffee however,

tea retained its luxury status – its highcost and associated rarity making it afavourite drink at Court.

This four-volume, reset collection

covers: tea in natural historyand medical writing; literary

representations of tea-drinking;tea, commerce and the East IndiaCompany; and the politics of tea.

4 Volume Set1424pp: 234x156: 2010978 1 84893 025 4: £350/$625

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Famine and Disease in

Ireland

Editors: Leslie Clarkson and

E Margaret Crawford

The Great Famine of 1845–9 remainsthe great climacteric in Irish history.Ireland without the Great Famine

would be an Ireland without anemigrant history, without the IrishDiaspora, without the tales of the

dispossessed, and without the mythsand realities that shape the culture ofthe nation. The documents reproduced

in this collection are concerned withIreland up to and including the GreatFamine and are also relevant to the

contemporary world. They are usedto answer questions as to a country’s vulnerability to famine, the reactions

of government and society, the causes

of death and the options available todoctors and healthcare practitioners.

‘researchers on the history of medical

statistics, sanitary reform and the

politics of medicine in Ireland will all

nd this a useful addition to the library

shelves.’ Irish Economic and Social

History Journal

5 Volume Set2416pp: 234x156: 2005978 1 85196 791 9: £450/$795

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