The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods themes and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine ; the final section analyses from broad chronological and geographical perspectives both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.