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Editorial NoteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Editorial Note Source Type: journals

History, Policy and the Social History of MedicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The History and Policy network at www.historyandpolicy.org is an initiative designed to make relevant aspects of historians' research accessible to those involved in deliberating over public policy. Originally founded as a website in 2002, it is now a growing network of professional historians who are assisted by a full-time external relations office. There are now over 80 policy papers on the website, from ancient to modern history, many of them derived from research in the social history of medicine. From the personal perspective of one of the network's founders, the article briefly outlines the nature and purpose of His...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Szreter, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Diabetes in the Tropics: Race, Place and Class in India, 1880-1965Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A disease predominantly of India's urban middle class and increasingly common in modern India, diabetes attracted little state medical attention either before or in the decades immediately following Indian independence in 1947. It did, however, give rise to an extensive medical literature, generated by both Indian and British doctors, pathologists and medical researchers, who understood the disease not just in terms of class susceptibility and the consequences of colonial modernity, but also in relation to racial and environmental characteristics. The rise of ‘tropical diabetes’ in India thus reflected and exem...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Arnold, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Confronting Rabies and Its Treatments in Colonial Madagascar, 1899-1910Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article considers, in turn, colonial health priorities, connections between Malagasy cures and Pasteurian remedies, as well as issues of accommodation, resistance and rumour in a colonial context.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jennings, E. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

But is it [History of] Medicine? Twenty Years in the History of the Healing Arts of ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article sets out to give an account of changes to the map of the history of Chinese medicine in the last 20 years. Concentrating mainly on English language secondary sources, it charts shifting aspirations for social history of medicine in China, the impact of anthropology and the tensions between local and large-scale histories. On the one hand, there is a focus on cultural difference, and the articulation of unique styles of perception, where practitioner historians are seen to have an advantage. On the other, historians of China are shown to be facing the challenge of writing in a global context. The paper acknowle...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lo, V. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Public Health and Modernisation: The First Campaigns in China, 1915-1916Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on the campaigns in three cities. It demonstrates how they championed the ideas of hygiene and sanitation and stimulated officialdom into creating new public health institutions. The campaigns became an essential element in the promotion of the idea of a modern state during a period in which China was characterised by a high degree of political instability.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bu, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Roy Porter Student Prize Essay * Boils, Pushes and Wheals: Reading Bumps on the Body in Early Modern EnglandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bodily bumps in early modern England were not simply collections of humors that needed to be lanced and drained. Diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of skin swellings comprised a deeply rich semiotics that both patients and healers read according to a range of biographical factors, incidents, sensations, observations and experiences. Using diaries and case histories in seventeenth-century surgical texts, this article explores how both patients and healers read and treated bodily bumps. It then looks at patients and healers together during medical encounters in order to show how both parties' interpretations and observations...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Weisser, O. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Hospital Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Post-Colonial Development ImpasseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The pattern of hospital development was set in colonised sub-Saharan countries in the early twentieth century on the basis of the demands of the colonial project and the strategies of missions. In the immediate post-independence period, democratic and egalitarian policy in some countries pointed to the expansion of health services to under-served areas. However, the idealism associated with independence waned and more pronounced tensions emerged. Plans for expanded primary health care systems were sacrificed in favour of hospital services for a privileged elite. Over the same period, a group of international agencies have ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: McPake, B. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

'It was a bridge from life to death': Hospitals during the Food Crisis, Greece 1941-1944Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The famine in occupied Greece between 1941 and 1943 was a deadly one with important short- and long-term effects on society at large. This paper focuses on the effect the famine had on the operation of two hospitals, those of Hios and Hermoupolis. The unique availability of patients' registers for both hospitals means that questions relating to the hospital's role and how they were utilised by the population during the famine can be addressed. Thus the paper examines the identity of patients, how long they stayed in the hospital, the outcomes of their stay and the diseases from which they suffered. Comparisons are made wit...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hionidou, V. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Notes on ContributorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Notes on Contributors Source Type: journals

Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English LiteratureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Williams, G. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern EnglandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brockliss, L. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment EuropeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Marshall, P. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine': Religion, Medicine and Culture in John Wesley's Primitive PhysicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Shuttleton, D. E. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman EmpireEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Popper, N. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Elmer, P. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mukharji, P. B. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge and the 'Opening' of JapanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Aldous, C. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial MexicoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Morfin, L. M. Tags: Focus on Early Modern Medicine Source Type: journals

Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus DelectiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Biernoff, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilizations in the United StatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mezzano, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hall, L. A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Gesunder Leben: Die Lebensreformbewegung im 20. JahrhundertEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hau, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy LivingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Forth, C. E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle: The Making of a 'Central Problem'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oosterhuis, H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Thomson, M. Tags: Book Reviews 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: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lee, B. R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American SocietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lowy, I. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the CaribbeanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wald, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Curar, Sanar y Educar. Enfermedad y Sociedad en Mexico, Siglos XIX y XXEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Eraso, Y. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

La Clinica: A Doctor's Journey Across BordersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ablard, J. D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Antimicrobial Drugs: Chronicle of a Twentieth-Century Medical TriumphEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hamilton-Miller, J. M. T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial AsylumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Takabayashi, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD From Clinic to CampusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mold, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Dying to Get High: Marijuana as MedicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Snelders, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for SurvivalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Melling, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: King, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making LawEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Neuner, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and TelevisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hayward, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Bringing Medicine to Virtual LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Baur, N. Tags: On Site Source Type: journals

Visualizing and Explaining PregnancyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Zwijnenberg, R. Tags: On Site Source Type: journals

Notes on Book ReviewersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 29, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Notes on Book Reviewers Source Type: journals

From Poison Peddlers to Civic Worthies: The Reputation of the Apothecaries in Georgian EnglandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Trust is not automatically granted to providers of professional services. The doctors of Georgian England were, by later standards, deficient in medical knowhow, particularly before the mid-nineteenth-century scientific understanding of antiseptics, and much satirised. Nonetheless, the emergence of a coherent medical profession indicates that the picture was far more intricate and positive than the satirists implied. Patients sought care as well as cure; and medical practitioners had no problems in finding custom. This essay reassesses the apothecaries’ role in the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners diff...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Corfield, P. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

'Manchu Anatomy': Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Beginning in the last decade of the seventeenth century, the French Jesuits Joachim Bouvet and Dominique Parrenin instructed the Kangxi Emperor in contemporary anatomical knowledge. Parrenin's instruction resulted in a Manchu anatomical atlas containing Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. This paper uses this case to examine the role of anatomy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European understandings of China and its medicine. I argue that the authority which Bouvet and Parrenin afforded anatomical knowledge gained from dissection informed their comparisons of Chinese and European medical learning. I ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Asen, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Sex, Masturbation and Foetal Death: Filipino Physicians and Medical Mythology in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a case study of the Filipino elite's engagement with western medicine, this article looks at the writings of two brothers who studied in Paris in the 1880s, Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera (1857–1925) and Félix Pardo de Tavera (1859–1932). It focuses first on Trinidad's observations on folk beliefs and popular medicine in the Philippines, and secondly on Félix's doctoral dissertation, in which he examined the causes of foetal death during early pregnancy. Both the Pardo de Tavera brothers found the methods of modern scientific medicine to be greatly superior in diagnosing and treating disease than ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Reyes, R. A. G. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Paul Ehrlich's Colonial Connections: Scientific Networks and Sleeping Sickness Drug Therapy Research, 1900-1914Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Between 1900 and 1914, a major sleeping sickness epidemic arose in many parts of Africa. Despite the competitive nature of European science in this period, the German immunologist Paul Ehrlich developed a collaborative transnational network of researchers and clinicians who worked together to carry out drug therapy trials on sleeping sickness patients in numerous African colonies. This kind of collaboration was possible when researchers shared complementary goals, and collectively this network played a significant role in shaping part of the European response to controlling an epidemic disease in Africa. Together with demo...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Neill, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Shell-Shock and Psychological Medicine in First World War BritainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues that conceptual frameworks of pre-war medicine provided models of mind-body relations which allowed doctors to recognise the emotional origins of shell-shock on the outbreak of war. Distinct schools of ‘physical’ and ‘psychological’ thought only emerged in 1916; physical theories persisted beyond 1918; and the war had an uneven effect on engagement with psychodynamic theories. Adoption of psychological vocabulary outstripped understanding, and widespread dissemination also resulted in hostility. Shell-shock marked an important moment in the emergence of the distinct disciplines o...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Loughran, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Families and Institutions for Shell-Shocked Soldiers in Australia after the First World WarEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article offers a fresh perspective on the treatment of shell-shocked soldiers by examining families' involvement in their institutionalisation in Australia after the First World War. It explores how kin mobilised the repatriation discourse of ‘preference’ to secure treatment for veterans in segregated mental hospitals which separated military cases from ‘confirmed civilian lunatics’. This article argues that by asserting that ex-servicemen were a more deserving class of patient, veterans' kin strategically deployed the stigma of mental illness to ensure better quality care for ex-servicemen, pr...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Larsson, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Strengthening the Will: Public Clinics for the Nervously Ill in Sweden in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the development of state-run clinics for the nervously ill in Sweden in the interwar years. After the establishment of the Royal Board of Pensions in 1914, an institution for the care of the chronically neurotic was high on the agenda of this governmental agency. The Swedish state became actively involved in the fight against nervous illnesses, and the primary goal of these state-financed clinics was to turn neurotic patients into productive citizens. Neurotics were seen as a large group of potential invalids who might become a heavy burden on the national economy. They needed to be provided with effe...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pietikainen, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

'That Won-Ton Soup Headache': The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968-1980Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper examines the ‘discovery’ of the Chinese restaurant syndrome in 1968 and subsequent reactions by the medical community, scientists, public health authorities and the general public to dangers posed by the common food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) and by Chinese cooking more generally. It argues that Chinese restaurant syndrome was, at its core, a product of a racialised discourse that framed much of the scientific, medical and popular discussion surrounding the condition. This particular debate brought to the surface a number of widely held assumptions about the strangely ‘exotic’, &...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 1, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mosby, I. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals