Introduction / Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world / Medieval medicine / Early modern medicine / Health and medicine in the Enlightenment / Medicine and modernity / Contemporary history of medicine and health / Global and local histories of medicine : interpretative challenges and future possibilities / Chinese medicine / Medicine in Islam and Islamic medicine / Medicine in western Europe / History of medicine in eastern Europe, including Russia / Science and medicine in the United States of America / Public health and medicine in Latin America / History of medicine in sub-Saharan Africa / Medicine and colonialism in south Asia since 1500 / History of medicine in Australia and New Zealand / Childhood and adolescence / Medicine and old age / Death / Historical demography and epidemiology : the meta-narrative challenge / Chronic illness and disease history / Public health / The political economy of health care in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Health, work, and environment : a Hippocratic turn in medical history / History of science and medicine / Women, health, and medicine / Health and sexuality / Medicine and the mind / Medical ethics and the law / Medicine and species : one medicine, one history? / Histories of heterodoxy / Oral testimony and the history of medicine / Medical film and television : an alternative path to the cultures of biomedicine