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Medicine, Law and the State in Imperial Russia
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Burton, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing from Head to Toe
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gibbs, F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brown, C. G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Just What Do Physicians Do? Unexpected Continuities from Sixteenth-Century Padua
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Howell, J. Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Bedside Teaching and the Acquisition of Practical Skills in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Padua
Very little is known to this point about the practical skills which sixteenth-century physicians needed and applied at the bedside and even less about how these skills were taught to students. Drawing on student notebooks and on printed collections of consilia by Padua professors, this paper outlines the different settings in which case-centered and, more specifically, bedside teaching was imparted in mid-sixteenth-century Padua. It describes the range of diagnostic and therapeutic skills that students acquired thanks to this hands-on training at the patient's bedside, from uroscopy and feeling the pulse to the manual expl...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Stolberg, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Testing of Sanocrysin: Science, Profit, and Innovation in Clinical Trial Design, 1926-31
This article provides a detailed analysis of the origins and significance of the 1926 clinical trial of Sanocrysin, a gold compound thought at the time to be useful in the treatment of tuberculosis. This experiment is generally considered to be the first clinical trial in the United States that used a formal system of randomization to divide research subjects into treatment and nontreatment groups; it was probably also the first clinical trial in the United States to use placebo shams in a nontreatment control group to overcome the problem of what researchers at the time called "psychic influence." As such, it was an extre...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gabriel, J. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God": Rethinking the Place of Religion in Postwar U.S. Medical History
Drawing on a large cache of letters to John and Frances Gunther after the death of their son as well as memoirs and fiction by bereaved parents, this essay challenges the assumptions of secularization that infuse histories of twentieth-century American medicine. Many parents who experienced the death of children during the postwar period relied heavily on religion to help make sense of the tragedies medicine could not prevent. Parental accounts included expression of belief in divine intervention and the power of prayer, gratitude for God's role in minimizing suffering, confidence in the existence of an afterlife, and acce...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Golden, J., Abel, E. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Environmentalist Thinking and the Question of Disease Causation in Late Spanish Philippines
This article examines the work and ideas of nineteenth-century Spanish colonial and patriotic Filipino physicians regarding disease causation in the tropical environment of the Philippines. It will focus on two key developments—Spanish environmentalist thinking and the emerging fields of microscopy and bacteriology. Much like the British and French colonialists, Spaniards viewed tropical climates as insalubrious and conducive to disease, perceiving themselves as constitutionally at risk in hot places, ill-suited, exposed, and vulnerable to so-called native diseases. By the 1880s, however, young Filipino researchers, ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Reyes, R. A. G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Founding of Walter Reed General Hospital and the Beginning of Modern Institutional Army Medical Care in the United States
When Walter Reed United States Army General Hospital opened its doors in 1909, the Spanish-American War had been over for a decade, World War I was in the unforeseeable future, and army hospital admission rates were steadily decreasing. The story of the founding of Walter Reed, which remained one of the flagship military health institutions in the United States until its 2011 closure, is a story about the complexities of the turn of the twentieth century. Broad historical factors—heightened imperial ambitions, a drive to modernize the army and its medical services, and a growing acceptance of hospitals as ideal place...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Adler, J. L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Cover/Standing Material Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Cover/Standing Material Source Type: research

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The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 9, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Stern, A. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Saving Babies?: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 9, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Freidenfelds, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 9, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Stroud, E. C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research