Public Health in the Premodern World

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Chapters [6, 12, and 14] of this work are available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] open access licence. This part/these parts of the work is/are free to read on [the Oxford Academic platform] and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The public health movement is commonly (and incorrectly) characterized as a response to the ills of industrialization and modernization. Setting out to correct this misconception, this volume gathers sixteen studies on the deeper history and archaeology of public health from across the premodern globe. Each chapter vividly reconstructs preventative ideas and practices in a different region, critically engaging with the paradigm of 'healthscaping', or designing environments where health can bloom. Studies range from programs to fight fire in later medieval England and restrict the movements of poor migrants in the Low Countries, to invoking gendered spirits in central America, maintaining water infrastructures in Cairo, and creating visual prophylactics in Tibet. All of these programs had shortcomings and limitations, but tracing them collectively stresses two main points. First, there is a transregional justification for rejecting the concept of public health as a modern, industrial phenomenon embedded in Western biomedicine and beholden to centralised states and bureaucracies. Secondly, preventative biopolitics predate and transcend urban centers in Europe and can be documented for numerous civilizations in other world regions, as well as in the countryside, for both sedentary and mobile groups. The volume accordingly illustrates that public health has a far richer history than a recent set of ideas and practices developed in response to the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, and that communities across the globe defined and pursued health in different ways, using the social, intellectual, legal, and physical tools at their disposal. This has important implications for all those interested in histories of health, medicine, and science in the medieval world, as well as for understandings of modern public health programs.
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2026-02-11
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OUP Oxford
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G. Geltner is a social, cultural, and environmental historian with a focus on Europe, 1100-1550 and a broad comparative approach. He has published extensively on the history of crime and punishment, the mendicant orders, community health, and mining, increasingly in collaboration with archaeology and the paleo-sciences. Janna Coomans is Assistant Professor at the department of Medieval History, Utrecht University. Her research focuses on social history, public health, and environment in premodern cities. Her dissertation was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press). Between 2018-2021, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-project 'Healthscaping Urban Europe'. Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a medical historian who has worked on various aspects of Eurasian transmissions of knowledge. Within this general scope, she has published extensively on the multi-cultural aspects of Tibetan medicine, the transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Roads, as well as on the links between early Jewish medicine and other medical traditions.

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