Professor Mark Jackson
Publications
Books
The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability, Oxford University Press, 2012.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Asthma: The Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Health and the Modern Home, New York, Routledge, 2007.
with K Calman, Forty Years of Medical Education, Special Issue of Medical Education, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady., Reaktion Books, 2006.
The Clinical and Laboratory Origins of Allergy, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2003.
Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Its Concealment, 1550-2000, Ashgate, 2002.
Articles
`”Divine stramonium”: the rise and fall of smoking for asthma’., Medical History, vol. 54, 2010, 171-194
Historical keywords: dust, Lancet, 2009
Illness and identity, Lancet, vol. 372, 2008, 1030-1031
John Freeman, hay fever and the origins of clinical allergy in Britain, 1900-1950., Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 34, no. 3, 2003, 473-490
Chapters
Pioneer or pariah? Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress, in Cantor D (eds) Shock, Adaptation and Stress in the Twentieth Century, Rochester US: University of Rochester Press, 2012
Introduction, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 1-17
`Permeating national boundaries: German and American influences on the emergence of “medico-pedagogy” in Edwardian England’., in Roelcke V,Weindling PJ,Westwood L (eds) International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany and the United States through World War II, Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2010, 30-47
with T Soderqvist, C Stillwell, Immunity and immunology, in Pickstone JV,Bowler P (eds) Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
A private line to medicine: the clinical and laboratory contours of allergy in the early twentieth century, in Kroker K,Keelan J,Mazumdar P (eds) Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology, Ashgate, 2007, 55-76
`Home sweet home: historical perspectives on health and the modern home, in Jackson M (eds) Health and the Modern Home, New York: Routledge, 2007, 1-17
`Allergy con amore’: psychosomatic medicine and the `asthmogenic home’ in the mid-twentieth century, in Jackson M (eds) Health and the Modern Home, Routledge, 2007, 153-174
Cleansing the air and promoting health: the politics of pollution in post-war Britain., in Berridge V,Loughlin K (eds) Medicine, the media and the mass market: producing health in the twentieth century, Routledge, 2005, 219-241
'A menace to the good of society': class, fertility and the feeble-minded in Edwardian England., in Digby A,Andrews J (eds) Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry, Amsterdam: Rodolphi, 2004, 271-294
Articles
`The pursuit of happiness: the social and scientific origins of Hans Selye’s natural philosophy of life’, History of Human Sciences, 2011
Historical keywords: infanticide, Lancet, 2006
Medical Education, special issue on the history of medical education to commemorate the 40th volume of Medical Education, , vol. 40, no. 3, 2006
Biography as history, Journal of Medical Biography, vol. 12, 2004, 63-65
Clinical and Laboratory Origins of Allergy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 34C, special Issue, 2003
Editorial: full of mercy and good fruits, Medical Education, vol. 37, 2003
Back to the future: history and humanism in medical education, Medical Education, vol. 36, 2002, 506-507
Introduction, Wellcome Trust Witness Seminar: Childhood Asthma and Beyond, 2001
Allergy: the making of a modern plague, Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 2001
In search of stability: Hans Selye and the biology of stress, Wellcome History, 1-4
Fiction in the archives? Sources for the Social history of infanticide, Archives, vol. 27, 173-185
Disease and Diversity in history: review article, Social History of Medicine, vol. 15
