Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The French Connection 1. The Annales and Medical Historiography: Bilan et Perspectives 2. Twenty Years On: Problems of Historical Methodology in the History of Health 3. Montpelier Medical Students and the Medicalisation of 18th-Century France 4. Popular Culture and Knowledge of the Body: Infancy and the Medical Anthropologist Part II: Medical History and Historical Demography 5. Methodological Problems in Modern Urban History Writing: Graphic Representations of Urban Mortality 1750-1850 6. No Death Without Birth: The Implications of English Mortality in the Early Modern Period Part III: Computers and the History of Institutions 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Asylum 8. Hospital History: New Sources and Methods Part IV: The Qualitative and Quantitative 9. Madness, Suicide, and the Computer 10. Interfaces: Perspectives of Health and Illness in Early Modern England Index

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Porter, Roy; Wear, Andrew