MedWorm: History of Medicine Top 20

Jewish Midwives in Eretz Israel During the Late Ottoman Period, 1850-1918

Social History of Medicine — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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)

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Between the Ego and the Icepick: Psychosurgery, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatric Discourse.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:31:47 +0100

This article reconstructs the relations between the theory and practice of psychosurgery and a dynamic approach to mental illness. The article claims that psychosurgical discourse adopted key concepts from psychoanalytical discourse and that psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists and psychoanalysts incorporated the basic tenets of psychosurgery into their writings. Hence a common, eclectic discourse on psychosurgery was created, used by psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists and psychosurgeons alike and containing elements from both theories. This article addresses the far-reaching effects this discourse had on therapeutic practice and on the widespread mutual acceptance of psychosurgery. The article questions the distinction between somatic and dynamic approaches to mental illness, cl...

Political dreams, practical boundaries: the case of the Nursing Minimum Data Set, 1983-1990.

Nursing History Review — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:15:06 +0100

Authors: Hobbs J The initial development of the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) was analyzed based on archival material from Harriet Werley and Norma Lang, two nurses involved with the project, and American Nurses Association materials. The process of identifying information to be included in the NMDS was contentious. Individual nurses argued on behalf of particular data because of a strong belief in how nursing practice (through information collection) should be structured. Little attention was paid to existing practice conditions that would ultimately determine whether the NMDS would be used. PMID: 21329148 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing History Review)

Kenneth M. Pinnow, Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

(Source: Social History of Medicine)

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

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Shocking Waves at the Museum: The Bini-Cerletti Electro-shock Apparatus.

Medical History — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Authors: Aruta A PMID: 21792269 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)

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Local government health services in interwar England: problems of quantification and interpretation.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:00:06 +0100

This article provides a critical discussion of recent work on local government health care and health services in interwar England. A literature review examines case study approaches and comparative quantitative surveys, highlighting conventional and revisionist interpretations. Noting the differing selection criteria evident in some works, it argues that studies based upon a limited number of personal health services provide an insufficient basis for assessing local health activity and policy. There follows a regional study demonstrating various discrepancies between health financing data in local sources and those in nationally collated returns. These in turn give rise to various problems of assessment and interpretation in works relying on the latter, particularly ...

The beauty of anatomy: visual displays and surgical education in early-nineteenth-century london.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:15:02 +0100

Authors: Berkowitz C Summary:The early-nineteenth-century artist, anatomist, and teacher Sir Charles Bell saw anatomy and art as closely related subjects. He taught anatomy to artists and surgeons, illustrated his own anatomical texts, and wrote a treatise on the use of anatomy in art. The author explores the connections among visual displays representing human anatomy, aesthetics, and pedagogical practices for Bell and a particular group of British surgeon-anatomists. Creating anatomical models and drawings was thought to discipline the surgeon's hand, while the study of anatomy and comparative anatomy would discipline the artist's eye. And for Bell, beauty made drawings into better pedagogical tools. PMID: 21804185 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicin...

Suffering and Death among Early American Roentgenologists: The Power of Remotely Anatomizing the Living Body in Fin de Siècle America.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:45:03 +0100

The objective is to pinpoint as precisely as possible when and to what extent the roentgenologists knew of the life-threatening risks of X-ray exposure. Second, I articulate a partial explanation for their behavior that is rooted in the social power of remotely anatomizing the living body in fin de siècle American scientific and medical culture. PMID: 21551915 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)

Dr Heribert Schmidt's (1914-95) visit to Hong Kong in 1954 and the exchange of Chinese medicine between Hong Kong and Germany

Journal of Medical Biography — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100

Heribert Schmidt, a German doctor, was an expert on Chinese medicine and acupuncture. He was renowned in both clinical practice and research on acupuncture in Germany and European countries. In March 1954 he visited Hong Kong and the visit attracted much attention and sparked discussions on the value of Chinese medicine. This paper aims to analyse the speech made by Heribert Schmidt during his visit to Hong Kong and also the follow-up discussions about scientification of Chinese medicine after his speech. The situation in which Chinese medical staff were pushed to the periphery in Hong Kong since the 1950s is also discussed. This should help us better to understand how practitioners of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and Mainland China reacted to Heribert Schmidt's speech. (Source: Journal o...

Harley Street addresses and residents

Journal of Medical Biography — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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WILLIAM H. HELFAND. Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books. New York, The Grolier Club, The Sudley Press, 2002. 256 pp., illus. $40

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100

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Starvation, Disease and Death: Explaining Famine Mortality in Madras 1876-1878

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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...

"Because of their praiseworthy modesty, they consult too late": regime of hope and cancer of the womb, 1800-1910.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:00:06 +0100

"Because of their praiseworthy modesty, they consult too late": regime of hope and cancer of the womb, 1800-1910. Bull Hist Med. 2011;85(3):356-83 Authors: Löwy I Abstract Summary:The birth of the "do not delay" principle in cancer treatment has often been linked with developments in late nineteenth century: the rise of histology and cellular theory of malignancy that favored the definition of cancer as a local pathology, then the development of radical surgical techniques that transformed malignant tumors into a potentially curable condition. This text seeks to nuance this view. It points out important continuities in the understanding of the natural history of uterine cancers. At its center, the wish, already present in early nineteenth century, is to det...

Linda Bryder, Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

(Source: Social History of Medicine)

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The Rhetoric of Disfigurement in First World War Britain

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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)

The Laboratory and the Clinic Revisited: The Introduction of Laboratory Medicine into the Bergen General Hospital, Norway

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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...

Robert Tattersall, Diabetes: The Biography

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

(Source: Social History of Medicine)

Susan D. Jones, Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax

Social History of Medicine — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

(Source: Social History of Medicine)