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  • Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

    Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

    by Waltraud Ernst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States

    1850-1950

    by Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, T.V. Sekher ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian History
    Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the ‘princely states’ that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two comparatively large ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

    Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.Its transnational perspective facilitates an understanding of the local and global factors that have had a bearing on alcohol consumption and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • India's Princely States

    People, Princes and Colonialism

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states.Contributions are from international, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst ...
    This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Stigma

    The Machinery of Inequality

    by Imogen Tyler ...
    Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day discrimination against Muslims, refugees and the 'undeserving poor', stigma has long been a means of securing the interests of powerful elites.In this ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain

    by Clare Hanson ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas across diverse cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the eugenic imagination. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Women, Education, and Agency, 1600–2000

    Edited by Jean Spence, Sarah Aiston, Maureen M. Meikle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education and the influence of educated women upon their social environment, to the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Violations of Trust

    How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People

    by Richard Hil ...
    Series series Welfare and Society
    The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of vulnerable children and young people. However, while public attention has focused on ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Comparative Criminology

    A Textbook

    by Hermann Mannheim ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume II of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part two of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the highly complex relationship between crime, the criminal law and certain burning moral issues of our ... Read more

    $65.99 USD