The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present.

Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices...

This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by alternative, increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, politics, matter, subjectivity and human agency. This book examines how postcolonialism is renewing itself to meet the theoretical and empirical demands of a more-than-human world. Postcolonial research needs to critically engage with radical transitions suggested by the ontological turn and its related posthumanist developments. This is the first book to trace...