Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

• Introduction
• List of Published Volumes, Pickering & Chatto
• Former Routledge Series

Introduction

Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 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 editors welcome formal proposals and initial enquiries for book proposals. Proposals should be at least six pages in length and between 15 and 20 pages if sample material is not available. However, the editors encourage the submission of a brief preliminary enquiry. Please send your enquiry on edited volumes to Dr David Cantor and on monographs to Dr Keir Waddington (addresses as below). An initial response can then be requested to test the water. For your formal proposal please see Pickering & Chatto's submission guidelines.

Editors