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"Breaking the Chain of Poverty": Family Planning, Community Involvement, and the Population Council-Office of Economic Opportunity Alliance
The Office of Economic Opportunity–Population Council program is an example of a mid-twentieth-century federal government/private foundation cooperative effort to place family planning and maternal health at the center of a fight against entrenched poverty. These joint efforts were the trend in family planning and maternal health provision by the 1960s and had two overlapping but also contradictory goals. The first was to provide contraceptive services to poor women to reduce the numbers of poor children, thus relieving the poor of added mouths to feed. Popular fears of a population explosion, mounting welfare rolls,...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 6, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Nelson, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Forward Surgery and Combat Hospitals: The Origins of the MASH
The U.S. Army adopted forward surgical hospitals (SHs) during World War I on the advice of the British and French armies. The purposes were not just to save lives, but to benefit the military by returning more patients to duty and reducing the size of the hospital system through fewer infections and shorter hospital stays. The Army examined the utility of the units at the end of the war and retained them for any future conflicts, but opposition also survived. The question was the utility for the Army: was it worth making a substantial investment, and reducing care for other wounded soldiers, for the most grievously wounded...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 6, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Marble, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show
In 2002, Gunther von Hagens's display of plastinated corpses opened in London. Although the public was fascinated by Body Worlds, the media largely castigated the exhibition by dismissing it as a resuscitated Victorian freak show. By using the freak show analogy, the British press expressed their moral objection to this type of bodily display. But Body Worlds and nineteenth-century displays of human anomalies were linked in more complex and telling ways as both attempted to be simultaneously entertaining and educational. This essay argues that these forms of corporeal exhibitionism are both examples of the dynamic relation...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 6, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Durbach, N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Scientific Strategy and Ad Hoc Response: The Problem of Typhoid in America and England, c. 1910-50
In the early twentieth century, death rates from typhoid in European cities reached an all time low. By contrast, death rates in America were six times as high, and the American public health community began a crusade against the disease in 1912. In the 1920s, hopes for greater control of the disease focused not just on sewers and drinking water supplies, but on the newly established scientific means of immunization, the supervision of food-related pathways of infection, and the management of healthy carriers. The management of carriers, which lay at the core of any typhoid control program, proved an intractable problem, a...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 6, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hardy, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The New Commentary Section: A Venture into the Middle Distance
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 6, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Crenner, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Savelli, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hirshbein, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ruis, A. R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kluchin, R. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Edington, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream * History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950 in Sinica Leidensia * Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Courtwright, D. T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Translating Leprosy: The Expert and the Public in Stanley Stein's Anti-stigmatization Campaigns, 1931-60
This article examines three campaigns through which patient activist Stanley Stein sought to combat the stigmatized connotations of the word "leprosy." In 1931, soon after starting the first patient newspaper at the U.S. national leprosy hospital at Carville, Stein became convinced of the necessity of finding an alternative to "leprosy." His ensuing campaign to promote the use of the words "Hansen's Disease" to describe the condition from which he and fellow Carville patients suffered became his most passionate and life-long project. In the 1950s, Stein became involved in efforts to change the translation of "leprosy" in t...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: John, H. V. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

German Battle Casualties: The Treatment of Functional Somatic Disorders during World War I
World War I witnessed the admission of large numbers of German soldiers with neurological symptoms for which there was no obvious organic cause. This posed a considerable challenge for the military and medical authorities and resulted in an active discussion on the etiology and treatment of these disorders. Current historiography is reliant on published physician accounts, and this represents the first study of treatment approaches based on original case notes. We analyzed patient records from two leading departments of academic psychiatry in Germany, those at Berlin and Jena, in conjunction with the contemporaneous medica...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Linden, S. C., Jones, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Kinderheilkunde and Continental Connections in Child Health: The "Glasgow School Revisited"--Again
The last two hundred years or so have seen the transformation of medical practice from a clinical art to the application of science to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. There has been a historical debate about how the use of technology and discoveries of the laboratory have become integrated within medical practice. In trying to understand the evolution of "scientific medicine," this has generally focused on the tensions between the differing cultures, persons, and professions of the "laboratory" and "clinic" and sought to explain how they were resolved within specific institutions. This paper looks again at the "Gla...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Weaver, L. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position, and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital, 1895-99
This article examines the professional roots of the hospital almoner, a position which has been widely neglected in medical history. The first almoner was Miss Mary Stewart, a former Charity Organization Society employee, appointed at the Royal Free Hospital of central London in 1895. The Royal Free was a charitable hospital which offered free medical treatment to patients considered morally deserving but unable to afford medical care elsewhere. The role expected of Stewart was to means test patients in order to ensure that only those deemed "appropriate" received free medical treatment, and to establish the extent to whic...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 8, 2013 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cullen, L. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research