ISJ: HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY

Explores the history of health, disease, and medicine in the West: how health and disease were understood and addressed in the ancient world; how these ideas and experiences continued or changed in medieval Europe; ways in which the Scientific Revolution transformed understandings of how the body works and thus how disease would be addressed, and how this new understanding was incorporated into medical treatment and social policy over the next two centuries. Particular attention to disparities in understandings of, and access to, medial treatment as a condition of gender and social class and the degree to which new developments in the 18th and 19th centuries may or may not have altered these disparities.