title: The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (Oxford Handbooks)
author: Mark Jackson
description: <br />Featured as an '<strong>Essential Purchase</strong>' on <em>Doody's</em> Core Titles List for 2018
zlib_text: The History of Medicine
  A Beginner’s Guide
  “As ever Mark Jackson offers us a humane and expansive view of
  the past to inform our vision of the future. As well as being a
  fantastic introduction to the history of medicine, this book is
  essential reading at a time when medical humanities scholars are
  for the first time working closely with clinicians and scientists to
  influence the direction of medical practice and therapy.”
  Jane Macnaughton – Professor of Medical Humanities,
   
  Durham University
  “Clearly written, up-to-date and informative, it will allow any
  reader (as well as any student of the history of medicine) to
  better understand those ethical, moral and cultural questions we
  face daily in our interaction with health care in new and
  surprising ways.”
  Sander Gilman – Distinguished Professor of the Liberal
   
  Arts and Sciences, Emory University
  “In one short book, Jackson has transformed the way we
  understand the theory and practice of medicine.”
  Joanna Bourke – Professor of History, 