MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Social History of Medicine' source. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:01:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448357&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F859%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448357 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448356&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F858%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448356 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448355&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F857%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448355 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 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http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448348&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F847%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448348 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448348 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448347&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F845%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448347 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448346&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F844%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448346 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448346 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http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448339&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F835%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448339 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448338&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F833%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448338 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448337&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F832%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448337 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448337 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http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448327&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F818%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448327 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448326&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F816%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448326 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448326 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448325&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F815%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448325 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448324&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F813%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448324 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448324 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448323&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F796%3Frss%3D1 Avner Offer argues that the current increase in average body weight arises from a problem of self-control. Self-control is a central concept in Norbert Elias’ theory of civilizing processes, but Offer rejects this theory as an explanation for the trend. I show in this paper that Offer's rejection of this theory is based on invalid arguments. Furthermore, considering the empirical data, I demonstrate that the new environment of abundance is not accompanied by a general decline in self-control, as Offer argues, but leads to a differentiated increase in new forms of self-control, as can be explained by Elias' theory. Like Offer, I argue for an explanation for the trends in body weight from an anthropometric historical perspective. The starting point, however, should be social differenti... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448323 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448322&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F776%3Frss%3D1 The story of the relationship between diagnosis at the bedside and the bench has been filled with tensions by historians of medicine. However, unpublished sources such as hospital case notes, minute books and private notebooks provide evidence that elite physicians were enthusiastic about new diagnostic techniques. With case studies of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, this paper explores debates around the establishment and financing of the laboratories and their staff, along with patterns of diagnostic practice. In particular, the use of bacteriology by Barts' physician, Samuel Gee, is compared to his public and private writing on laboratory science. The laboratory and pathologists were quickly and routinely used at Barts by elite physicians, even ... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448322 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448321&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F758%3Frss%3D1 The article explores the everyday relationship between the laboratory and the clinic in the Bergen hospital in the 1890s. Many claims have been made by historians of medicine and science that such a relationship was likely to be dominated by conflict. Through an analysis of the establishment of a prosector position in the Bergen hospital, followed by a careful investigation of practice in the hospital in relation to diagnosis of tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever and cancer, the presumed conflict between the laboratory and clinic is explored. Instead of conflict, I find in general enthusiastic clinicians putting the laboratory techniques and technologies to use in the clinic for all their worth. The Bergen experience thus contributes to an ongoing trend where the conflict-oriented nar... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448321 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448320&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F739%3Frss%3D1 The relationship between the pursuit of science and the practice of medicine has been a theme of abiding interest among medical historians. For the past 30 years or so, historians have characterised that relationship largely in terms of divergence, tension and conflict. My contention is that that tension has been over-stated. In this paper, I show how the narrative of conflict came to dominate historians' accounts of science–medicine relations, and suggest some reasons why that narrative, rather than a more mutualistic understanding of science and medicine, enjoys such credibility among historians of medicine. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448320 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448319&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F720%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the institutionalisation of three such traditions of ‘Islamic Medicine’ and argues that the form they took drew directly upon the distinctive history of Islam in Bengal. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448319 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448318&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F700%3Frss%3D1 This paper attempts to evaluate competing theories forwarded by modern historians to explain the mortality caused by one of the most well-known famines in nineteenth-century India: the Madras famine of 1876–8. Some have suggested that the resumption of the monsoon rains after a period of prolonged drought created conditions favourable for the breeding and proliferation of malaria, deaths from which peaked after the worst period of starvation. Others have argued that the wave of mortality during the famine years can be traced to the dissemination of infectious diseases like cholera and dysentery by mobile, socially displaced populations. The paper finds that all of these explanations neglect a category of diseases which accounts for a third of all famine deaths. A re-assessment of the... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448318 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448317&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F686%3Frss%3D1 This article is an analysis of the use of Pervitin (metamphetamine) in National Socialist Germany after the introduction of the drug in 1938. Whereas earlier studies have focused on the supply of the drug, this study focuses on demand. Both an iatrogenic and a ‘Nazigenic’ interpretation of the history of metamphetamine use are reviewed. It is concluded that the use of Pervitin in the Third Reich was not only ‘pushed’ on the population by the Nazi political and military authorities, but also became endemic in German society as it addressed the needs and problems of various users including employees, housewives, and soldiers. The drug was a cultural ambiguity of life in Nazi Germany, integrated in everyday life, notwithstanding its regulation by drug laws. (Source: So... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448317 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448316&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F666%3Frss%3D1 This article asks why, and offers an account of British visual culture in which visual anxiety and aversion are of central importance. By comparing the rhetoric of disfigurement to the parallel treatment of amputees, an asymmetrical picture emerges in which the ‘worst loss of all’—the loss of one's face—is perceived as a loss of humanity. The only hope was surgery or, if that failed, prosthetic repair: innovations that were often wildly exaggerated in the popular press. Francis Derwent Wood was one of several sculptors whose technical skill and artistic ‘wizardry’ played a part in the improvised reconstruction of identity and humanity. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448316 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448315&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F643%3Frss%3D1 During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly concerned about an apparent increase in recorded morbidity. They attributed this increase to changes in sickness behaviour and a decline in the societies' ability to police sickness claims. These arguments have been echoed by a number of historians but others have suggested that the increase represented a real change in sickness experience. This paper addresses these arguments in three ways. It begins by exploring contemporary debates over morbidity change between 1870 and 1914. It then revisits the data on which many of these arguments were based. Finally, it presents new data from a recent study of the Hampshire Friendly Society, which shed fresh light on the pattern of age-specific morbidity... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448315 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448314&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F624%3Frss%3D1 Between 1837 and 1841, the New South Wales colonial government quarantined fifteen British and Irish ships, all for typhus. The article argues that the voyage destabilised the medical identity of fevers in general and typhus in particular. Yet, the political significance of the disease travelled intact, and fed directly into broader contemporary political debates in the Australian colonies about poverty, immigration and their political relationship with Britain. These quarantines provided a platform for colonists and immigrants to contest the causes and significance of the disease. Historiographically, the article contributes to debates about quarantine, politics and immigration. By emphasising the importance of the voyage as a pathological event, it contributes to our understanding of the... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448314 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448313&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F608%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the complex position of nineteenth-century women surgeons, employing the New Hospital for Women in London, with its all-female medical staff, as a case study. An examination of a variety of published and manuscript sources reveal that, while the Victorian woman surgeon was a reality, her position was a precarious one. A lack of clinical experience was a factor in her difficulties, but there were also a number of other concerns, not the least of which was antagonism from medical women themselves about the performance of surgical procedures by their female colleagues. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448313 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448312&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F588%3Frss%3D1 This article uses the highly publicised shooting of the retired policeman, Thomas Talbot in 1871 as its central theme in order to highlight a number of key topics concerning the management of civilian gunshot injuries in Ireland during the mid to late nineteenth century. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448312 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448311&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F570%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the subversive and violent metaphors used to describe these workers, which included carnival and wild animals. Although the pizzigamorti were not thought of as dishonourable, the descriptions applied to the workers were informed both by a general vocabulary of dangerous social groups and a specific Venetian dialect shaped by the context of the plague. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448311 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448310&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F554%3Frss%3D1 This study explores the gendered nature of surgical practice in early modern London and the ways in which women participated in the provision of care within the city's surgical households. The juxtaposition of domestic and occupational space and the logistics of patient care within surgical households provided fertile experiential training ground for female practitioners and necessitated partnerships between surgeons and their wives. Despite the ambivalence engendered in attitudes toward women's affiliation with the Barber-Surgeons' Company, surgery's relatively broad practical scope, lack of clearly defined educational prerequisites and emphasis on cooperative practice facilitated the involvement of female practitioners. By challenging narrowly defined actors' categories, this study argue... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5448310 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5448310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5448309&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F3%2F535%3Frss%3D1 This article discusses the possibility of the involvement of Dominican friars with some aspects of medical study and teaching in thirteenth-century Paris. An edict of Canon Law from 1298 and similar Dominican legislation from 1299 restricted the number of religious who studied medicine. After a brief discussion of medical knowledge in the Orders of friars, the contents of a privately-owned thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript of medical texts of supplements to the articella will be examined. Twelve accompanying historiated initials are described, some of which depict Dominican friars or their assistants undertaking key medical tasks. The analysis of these is placed within the context of Dominican education and leads to the conclusion that in the thirteenth century at least, some of the e... 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http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095282 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095281&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F491%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095281 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095280&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F489%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095280 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095280 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095279&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F488%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095279 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095278&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F484%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095278 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095277&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F478%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095277 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095276&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F461%3Frss%3D1 This paper challenges the received view of the emergence of biomedical ethics as a distinct field. That account, championed by such scholars as David Rothman and Albert Jonsen, says that bioethics began when clinicians sought help from lay ‘outsiders’ because the traditional sources of medical ethics provided no guidance in deciding, for example, whom among many candidates should receive scarce haemodialysis treatments. Laypersons were expected to provide a moral skill clinicians lacked. But an examination of largely overlooked evidence from the period tells a different story. I argue that the received account overstates what those physicians who opened the doors to the outsiders expected laypersons to contribute. The historical materials at least partly contest the claim that ... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095276 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095275&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F445%3Frss%3D1 This article begins by exploring the history of vampiric phenomena and the various medical theories of vampirism. It discusses the change in emphasis in psychiatry from a psychotherapeutically-influenced exploration of the meaning of a particular symptom to a more ostensibly evidence-based, checklist approach. This reflects a wider shift in psychiatric culture. Articles from the psychiatric literature dealing with vampirism are reviewed in depth. The article argues that the clinical interpretation of vampirism may be useful as an indicator of shifting attitudes within psychiatric discourse. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095275 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095275 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095274&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F426%3Frss%3D1 This article documents the deployment of medical science to address the subsequent political crisis, particularly the Royal Commission chaired by prominent local researcher, Charles Kellaway. I argue that this inquiry was a critical experiment in narrowing the terms of reference for health from the social milieu to medical expertise. Strategies central to this rescripting were enlisting an all-medical Commission, transposing laboratory culture to the tragedy site and focusing blame on individual, behavioural aspects of contamination. Examining discourses of both lay and medical dissent suggests how this event fed into wider cultural negotiations, advancing the social stature of medical research while highlighting its potential value in federal control of health. (Source: Social History of ... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095274 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095273&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F407%3Frss%3D1 This paper looks at the education of tuberculous children in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1955. It shows that there were regional differences and deficiencies in the extent of provision in Northern Ireland. Although rates of tuberculosis were higher for Irish children than their English counterparts, the Irish School Medical Service was not developed until at least 16 years later than in England and Wales. Other regional differences are revealed in the paucity of open-air education. This was considered the ideal but places were available for comparatively few children. Many continued to attend the same school as before their diagnosis whilst others were nursed at home and did not receive any schooling. We can obtain a much deeper picture of the impact of these deficiencies on tuberculous ... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095273 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095272&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F389%3Frss%3D1 This article examines how debates surrounding the practice and development of maternity care in England between 1948, when the National Health Service (NHS) came into existence, and 1974, when a reorganisation of the service saw the local Public Health Departments being abolished, determined the maternity care available to Oxfordshire women. Based on 92 oral-history interviews, the article considers the services on offer to women, and their experiences of this provision, with reference to the themes of antenatal care, child birth and postnatal care. The article demonstrates that there were important changes in maternity care during the years 1948–1974, although there were also some notable continuities. However, it also shows that time period is not the only significant variable. The... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095272 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095271&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F370%3Frss%3D1 This article uses analysis of the personal health records of users of Edinburgh's maternity charities to argue that the process of medicalisation was begun by these charities, and preceded the introduction of the Edinburgh Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme in 1917. However, whilst it is argued that initially the Scheme had limited impact, the article concludes that its funding and stability offered the opportunity for more dynamic management of abnormal pregnancies. Thus this encouraged a gradual shift in attitude to birth from an essentially physiological event to a potentially pathological incident. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095271 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095270&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F352%3Frss%3D1 This article adds a comparative perspective to a growing body of research exploring the establishment and provision of local birth control clinics in the UK before and after 1945. The cities of Liverpool and Bradford represent two extremes of birth control clinic development in the twentieth century. In Liverpool, a voluntary Mother's Welfare Clinic opened in 1926 and had three branch clinics in the city by 1960. Bradford did not obtain its first voluntary birth control clinic until 1960. To explain this differential in clinic development, the article draws on the role played by individuals, voluntary, medical and municipal authorities, religious opposition, patient demand, as well as population and immigration debates. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095270 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095269&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F334%3Frss%3D1 This article shows that, as the practice of natural healing was professionalised, Naturheilkunde was stripped of its association with lay healers and ‘quacks’. In the process, natural therapies moved from the medical margins to the mainstream. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095269 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095268&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F316%3Frss%3D1 How did the diagnosis and treatment of lunacy in Western Australia intersect with Indigenous control by whites, and attitudes to Indigenous Western Australians in general, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historical analyses of the pre-1960s period are fragmentary, but there seems to have been about 30 cases of Indigenous persons being charged or diagnosed with lunacy in the period from 1870 to 1914, the overwhelming majority of whom were from remote and sparsely-settled areas of Western Australia. The constant ill-treatment to which most Indigenous people were subjected by whites, combined with often-terrifying internecine warfare between local clans or families, makes these diagnoses problematic. There is little evidence that white professionals made any connection b... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095268 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095267&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F299%3Frss%3D1 This article summarises the activity of the midwives, the nature of their work and their contribution to the midwifery profession in Eretz Israel. Studying two categories of midwives—traditional midwives and certified midwives—the article highlights the defining properties of each group by comparing their different professional methods and characteristics. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095267 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095266&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F281%3Frss%3D1 Today, hypochondriasis is a mental disturbance characterized by unfounded fear of serious illness, but in the seventeenth century, it was a common physical condition. Over the next 150 years in Great Britain, the disorder was transformed. What had been an affliction of abdominal organs became a disorder of the nervous system and brain, and finally the mind. Two factors contributed to this change. One was a shift in the social context of emerging medical knowledge. As medical practice moved from bedside to hospital, illnesses that had involved the whole person came to reside in bodily organs. Hypochondriasis became illness without somatic disease. The other was a change in English society that altered the disorder's social significance. During the Enlightenment, hypochondriasis became, on t... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095266 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095265&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F260%3Frss%3D1 London experienced a city-wide rise in infant mortality in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth century. This was a period of rapid population growth at the suburban margins but little change in the city centre. The fates of London infants, between approximately 1550 and 1750, in a sample of the city centre, and Clerkenwell in the poorer northern suburbs, are examined. Levels of infant mortality are considered in the context of infant feeding practices and the disease environment. High levels of endemic infection during the first half of the seventeenth century, particularly in the suburbs, are suggested by an examination of the timing and duration of epidemic mortality. A shift in customary infant feeding practices among middle-class Londoners in... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095265 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095265 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095264&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F244%3Frss%3D1 This article investigates the role of the medical examination in municipal poor relief programmes between 1570 and 1620. Documents from the city of Nördlingen, a community of approximately 10,000 people in 1600, suggest that municipal facilities addressed a range of serious illnesses for a wide spectrum of the population. Practitioners were influenced by their Galenic medical milieu but ultimately focused on a range of practical resource questions rather than the diagnosis of an individual's disease. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5095264 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5095264 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5095263&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F2%2F226%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the representation of medicine and medical practitioners in the dramatic interludes (entremeses) of early modern Spain, highlighting the way these short works dramatise the contact between academic and popular medical practices. Dramatic interludes, frequently ignored by historians of literature, constitute a valuable resource for the historian interested in seventeenth-century representations of medicine and medical practitioners. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and unofficial medical practitioners regularly appear on stage, providing historians with a fascinating view of the social currency of medical images during a time when drama was almost a national obsession. By exploring the characterisation of a number of medical practitioners—including physicians, ... 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and highlights the possibilities of ‘being able to learn’ as an aim for history of medicine research. For this case study, processes of research and learning allow consideration of the ‘dilemma of paternalism’ and the interaction between history, policy and practice. How can students enter into discourses about learning? How could this discourse help to make university systems of administration and assessment provide a more appropriate environment for staff and students to ‘be able to learn’? (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636202 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636201&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F142%3Frss%3D1 Historians are increasingly required to produce research that makes an impact. This is particularly the case for medical historians, partly because of our funders' expectations, but also because there is a sense that medical history can inform today's thorny debates about health. Unfortunately, many historians struggle to make an impact. I suggest that participating in medical conferences (broadly defined), not only provides opportunities to make an impact on the medical community, but also offers chances to observe and participate in medical history as it happens. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636201 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636200&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F125%3Frss%3D1 This article is a study of health, illness and traumatic injury in the chronicles of Fernão Lopes, who wrote in Portugal in the first half of the fifteenth century, focusing on the events of 1383–5, a period of civil war and foreign invasion. Arguing that Lopes made use of a series of medical ‘emplotments’ to construct his history, this study approaches medieval medicine in as broad a sense as possible engaging with the role of moral and bodily health in a dramatic tale of political ambition and national resurgence. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636200 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636199&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F108%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the image of the female healer in a variety of western medieval secular literary texts. Whilst many depictions of the female healer corroborate the findings of recent studies of women's medical practice, the occasional divergences shed light on changes in cultural, religious and societal values. An advantage to viewing female healers in a literary context is the ability it affords the reader to observe her in her total context—as a physician, but also as a wife, possibly a mother, a queen or a member of a village. In each of these situations, a woman's healing is depicted as an innate quality of her femininity. The work of the female healer is at once natural and aberrant. Her literary image serves not only to elucidate those qualities, but also shows how the ba... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636199 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636198&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F92%3Frss%3D1 This paper examines the discussions of ‘magical’ cures found in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century English pastoral manuals (texts designed to teach the clergy how to preach and hear confessions). It discusses these writers' attitudes to spoken and written charms and non-verbal amulets, and compares them with a selection of charms and amulets found in contemporary medical texts. The paper discusses the reasons why authors of pastoral manuals condemned certain kinds of cure as ‘magical’, and argues that they were more concerned about cures that involved words than about non-verbal amulets. It also argues that a significant number, although not all, of the charms described in thirteenth-century medical texts would have been acceptable to many authors of pastoral... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636198 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636197&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F74%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on the latter tradition, which was based on the translations into Latin of the Greek treatises Diseases of Women I and II. These translations, referred to here as Latin Diseases of Women and On the Diverse Afflictions of Women, contain a wealth of recipes, which are examined in detail. I ask whether recipes that had been first written down in the fifth century BC could still form the basis of gynaecological practice in the Middle Ages, and whether the act of translation transformed medical practice. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636197 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636196&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F57%3Frss%3D1 Although English vernacular medicine of the late ninth to twelfth centuries draws heavily upon the classical and sub-classical tradition, classical authorities are almost never cited. In fact, citations of any kind are very rare, and the majority of authorities cited in texts compiled before the Norman Conquest are themselves English. Only in the twelfth century are Galen and Hippocrates mentioned for the first time. This suggests a rather self-sufficient medical community in England, with limited historical awareness or contact with wider developments, at least until new Latin medical texts came in from the continent in the eleventh century. (Source: Social History of Medicine) Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636196 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636195&cid=s_31001_163_f&fid=31001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshm.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F24%2F1%2F41%3Frss%3D1 lfric (writing about ad 1000) decries the use of enchantments and witchcraft in healing; our hope should be in God. Each of the six extant medical texts in Old English contains elements which are not strictly medical, which I refer to as ‘extra’. I concentrate on the differing use of amulets, incantations, rituals and special exotic ingredients in the texts, ranging from the two translations from Latin in the Apuleius Complex, to the compilation in two books which we call Bald's Leechbook, extant in the same mid-tenth-century manuscript as the brief Leechbook III, and finally to the ‘medical commonplace book’ usually called Lacnunga, ‘Remedies’, dating from about ad 1000. The Lacnunga has the most folkloric elements, but also the most intensive use of Ch... Social History of Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636195 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4636195