Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter are both at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

Introduction; The Art and Science of Medicine; The Place of Medicine; What is Specific to Western Medicine?; The Historiography of Medicine; Medical Care; Body Systems; The Anatomical Tradition; The Microscopical Tradition; The Physiological Tradition; The Biochemical Tradition; The Pathological Tradition; The Immunological Tradition; Clinical Research; Theories of Life, Health, and Disease; The Concepts of Health, Illness, and Disease; Ideas of Life and Death; Humoralism; Environment and Miasmata; Contagion/Germ Theory/Specificity; Nosology; The Ecology of Disease; Fevers; Constitutional and Hereditary Disorders; Mental Diseases; Nutritional Diseases; Endocrine Diseases; Tropical Diseases; Cancer; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Diseases of Civilization; Understanding Disease; Unorthodox Medical Theories; Non-Western Concepts of Disease; Folk Medicine; Arab-Islamic Medicine; Chinese Medicine; Indian Medicine; Clinical Medicine; The History of the Doctor–Patient Relationship; The Art of Diagnosis: Medicine and the Five Senses; The Science of Diagnosis: Diagnostic Technology; The History of Medical Ethics; Women and Medicine; Drug Therapies; Physical Methods; Surgery (Traditional); Surgery (Modern); Psychotherapy; Childbirth; Childhood; Geriatrics; Medicine in Society; The History of the Medical Profession; Medical Education; The Hospital; Medical Institutions and the State; Public Health; Epidemiology; The History of Personal Hygiene; A General History of Nursing: 1800–1900; The Emergence of Para-Medical Professions; Psychiatry; Health Economics: Finance, Budgeting, and Insurance; Medicine, Ideas, and Culture; Medicine and Colonialism; Internationalism in Medicine and Public Health; Medicine and Anthropology; Religion and Medicine; Charity Before c.1850; Medical Philanthropy After 1850; Medicine and Architecture; Medicine and Literature; War and Modern Medicine; Pain and Suffering; Medical Technologies: Social Contexts and Consequences; Medicine and the Law; Medical Sociology; Demography and Medicine; Medicine, Mortality, and Morbidity