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Image, text and Observatio: the Codex Kentmanus.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper examines the inter-relationship between image, text and object in the Codex Kentmanus, which is one of the earliest records of the plants in the botanical garden at Padua, studied by Johannes Kentmann (1518-77). The manuscript shows that "observation" for Kentmann involved a gradual process of assimilating knowledge from other physicians, apothecaries, and books in order to make the plants which were originally encountered at a specific time and place into a more generalised object of study for learned physicians. PMID: 19852380 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Early Science and Medicine)
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kusukawa S Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern GynaecologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - May 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Turner, W. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

"Law unto themselves": black women as patients and practitioners in North Carolina's campaign to reduce maternal and infant mortality, 1935-1953.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 14608847 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Nursing History Review)
Source: Nursing History Review - January 1, 2004 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Thomas KK Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

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Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00048-009-0358-x Journal NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und MedizinOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978 Journal Volume Volume 17 Journal Issue Volume 17, Number 4 / November, 2009 (Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine)
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals

Einstein, interaktiv und zum AnfassenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00048-008-0327-9Authors Christian Sichau, Deutsches Museum 80306 München Germany Journal NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und MedizinOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978 Journal Volume Volume 17 Journal Issue Volume 17, Number 1 / February, 2009 (Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine)
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - February 19, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals

Race and Medical Practice in Kansas City's Free Dispensary.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:Patient records from the Kansas City Free Dispensary, 1906-1912, provide material for a case study of race in early twentieth-century medicine. The dispensary was a free, racially integrated medical clinic operated for educational purposes by the University of Kansas. Little historical work has been done examining the role of race in routine medical practice. Medical records give insight to the development of durable clinical habits and rules of thumb. Practitioners at the Kansas City Free Dispensary showed clear racial inequities in their care, for example in the treatment of pain, but they did not acknowledge...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Crenner C Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Blancou, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Mania: A Short History of Bipolar DisorderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Grob, G. N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

'The keeper must himself be kept': visitation and the lunatic asylum in England, 1750-1850.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There was a growing disquiet in eighteenth-century England about the activities of private madhouses. Early legislation, in 1774, gave limited powers of registration and inspection to local magistrates.The exposure of flagrant abuses in both private and public institutions by a parliamentary select committee, in 1815, brought the question of visitation to the centre of the lunacy reform agenda. Subsequent legislation extended the responsibilities of magistrates and also established the principal of centralised oversight. An effective national system of regulation was finally created in 1845, with Commissioners in Lunac...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Smith L Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals

Receiving the rich, rejecting the poor: towards a history of hospital visiting in nineteenth-century provincial England.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The changing perceptions of visitors to hospitals in provincial England during the long nineteenth century are examined in this chapter. In particular, it discusses the experience of visitors to hospitals in nine general and specialist hospitals in Birmingham, England's 'second city'. Though the history of visitors in this provincial setting supports the general assumption that hospital governors received the rich and rejected the poor, this chapter demonstrates that attitudes to visitors were not always straightforward. Views of hospital governors and medical staff varied with medical specialism, hospital finances, an...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Reinarz J Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals

Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - February 25, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Riddle, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Magic and the physical world in thirteenth-century scholasticism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The turn to modern science in the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century is typically characterized as dependent on the novel adoption of a mechanical hypothesis for operations in nature. In fact, the Middle Ages saw a partial anticipation of this phenomenon in the scholastic physics of the thirteenth century. More precisely, it was just the two factors, denial of action at a distance and an emphasis on the primary materiality of causation, that constituted this early mechanism--or "protomechanism." The latter's emergence can be seen most clearly where scholastic thinkers-here, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aqu...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Marrone SP Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

The "experience-based medicine" of the thirteenth century.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We should not assume that medieval physicians did not take pains to found their practice upon evidence. Academic physicians at Montpellier ca. 1300 were cautious about accepting textbook claims for the powers of drugs, and tried to verify each drug's physiological effects before using it; yet they were also flexible, ready to believe that powerful new medicines might be discovered empirically that were unknown to their authorities or superficially inconsistent with existing knowledge. Likewise, physicians were careful to observe their patients closely and to try to identify the condition from which each was suffering, ...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: McVaugh M Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

The intellect naturalized: Roger Bacon on the existence of corporeal species within the intellect.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this paper I challenge the claim that Bacon considered the operation of species as limited to the physical and sensory levels and demonstrate that in his view, the very same species issued by physical objects operate within the intellect as well. I argue that in Bacon the concept of illumination plays a secondary role in the acquisition of knowledge, and that he regarded innate knowledge as dispositional and confused. What was left as the main channel through which knowledge is gained were species received through the senses. I argue that according to Bacon these species, representing their agents in essence, defini...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Raizman-Kedar Y Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

Footprints of "experiment" in early Arabic optics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study traces the early developments of the concept of experiment with a view of extending the subject in both content and approach. It extends the content of the subject slightly backward, prior to the methodological breakthroughs of the Optics of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen or Alhacen, d. ca. 1040), which are credited as a "significant landmark in the history of experimental science." And it extends the approach to the subject slightly forward, from the premise that early science was "largely carried out in books," to a close examination of the books through which the footprints of'experiment' may be traced. The point of...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kheirandish E Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

John Hilton (1805-78): anatomist and surgeonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
John Hilton was the foremost anatomist of his day. From only humble beginnings he became an anatomy demonstrator at Guy's Hospital. When appointed Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, his meticulous clinical skills, arising from his depth of anatomical knowledge, led him to develop many anatomical principles culminating in a series of lectures on ‘Rest and Pain’. For the first time the clinical importance of each was highlighted in surgical practice. By public demand the lectures were published as a book, still in print today, which brought a new emphasis to clinical anatomy that would permeate surgery thereafter. He bec...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - November 1, 2007 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Shenker, N., Ellis, H. Tags: Anatomists Source Type: journals

The White House Physician: A History from Washington to George W. BushEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Erlen, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Women or healers? Household practices and the categories of health care in late medieval Iberia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article intends to illustrate how women's significant contribution to healthcare can be mapped out by looking at the domestic space that is largely left outside the histories of medieval medicine. First, it explores the language that names women's activities to maintain health and alleviate illness, showing how words identifying women's capacities to heal come from everyday actions and belong to the semantic domain of women and mothers. The caring meanings ascribed to the words women, mothers, midwives, and nurses in the Iberian mother tongues conflate and describe a continuum of practice whose origin is the household...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 9, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cabré M Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Presidential Address: Quarantining Women: Venereal Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Concern about the infection of servicemen and essential war workers with venereal disease led the U.S. Public Health Service, with the cooperation of state and local health officials, to set up a national program of venereal disease quarantine hospitals during World War II. Although some of the hospitals eventually accepted men, the initial purpose of these facilities was to detain and treat venereally affected prostitutes and "promiscuous women" who were considered a threat to the war effort. Using quarantine powers, officials forcibly detained venereally infected women and treated them for their disease. Th...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Content TypeJournal Article JournalNTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & MedicineOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978 Journal VolumeVolume 15 Journal IssueVolume 15, Number 3 / August, 2007 (Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine)
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - July 18, 2007 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology Medicine Source Type: journals