STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
In recent years, the social history of medicine has become recognised as a major field of historical enquiry. Aspects of health, disease, and medical care now attract the attention not only of social historians but also of researchers in a broad spectrum of historical and social science disciplines. The Society for the Social History of Medicine, founded in 1969, is an interdisciplinary body, based in Great Britain but international in membership. It exists to forward a wide-ranging view of the history of medicine, concerned equally with biological aspects of normal life, experience of and attitudes to illness, medical thought and treatment, and systems of medical care. Although frequently bearing on current issues, this interpretation of the subject makes primary reference to historical context and contemporary priorities. The intention is not to promote a sub-specialism but to conduct research according to the standards and intelligibility required of history in general. The Society publishes a journal, Social History of Medicine, and holds at least three conferences a year. Its series, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, does not represent publication of its proceedings, but comprises volumes on selected themes, often arising out of conferences but subsequently developed by the editors.
Life, Death and the Elderly
Edited by Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
Edited by Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones
In the Name of the Child
Edited by Roger Cooter
Reassessing Foucault Power, Medicine and the Body
Edited by Colin Jones and Roy Porter