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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 9, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Cover/Standing Material Source Type: research

The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Daniel, V. E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Horwitz, A. V. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brazelton, M. A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

A Disability History of the United States
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pruitt, L. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Enstad, N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870-c. 1995
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Berg, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Padilla, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

William Richard Gowers, 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Casper, S. T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Davis, F. R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seitz, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Cost of War--Then and Now: Commentary on "Neuro Psychiatry 1943"
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Fangerau, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Neuro Psychiatry 1943: The Role of Documentary Film in the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge and Promotion of the U.K. Psychiatric Profession
In 1943, Basil Wright produced a documentary film about the treatment of servicemen and civilians with psychological disorders at Mill Hill Emergency Medical Service Hospital. Funded by the Ministry of Information, Neuro Psychiatry was shot to convince influential clinicians and policy makers in North America that the British had developed expertise in the management of psychiatric casualties. By emphasizing novel and apparently effective interventions and excluding severe or intractable cases from the film, Wright encouraged an optimistic sense of achievement. Filmed at a time when victory was considered an eventual outco...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Rise of Emergency Medicine in the Sixties: Paving a New Entrance to the House of Medicine
Emergency medicine evolved into a medical specialty in the 1960s under the leadership of physicians in small communities across the country. This paper uses three case studies to investigate the political, societal, and local factors that propelled emergency medicine along this path. The case studies—Alexandria Hospital, Hartford Hospital, and Yale-New Haven Hospital—demonstrate that the changes in emergency medicine began at small community hospitals and later spread to urban teaching hospitals. These changes were primarily a response to public demand. The government, the American public, and the medical commu...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Merritt, A. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Efficacy and Enlightenment: LSD Psychotherapy and the Drug Amendments of 1962
The decline in therapeutic research with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the United States over the course of the 1960s has commonly been attributed to the growing controversy surrounding its recreational use. However, research difficulties played an equal role in LSD psychotherapy's demise, as they frustrated researchers' efforts to clearly establish the efficacy of treatment. Once the Kefauver Harris Drug Amendments of 1962 introduced the requirement that proof of efficacy be established through controlled clinical trials before a drug could be approved to market, the value of clinical research became increasingly de...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 21, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oram, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research