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Clare Pilsworth. Healthcare in Early Medieval Northern Italy: More to Life than Leeches?
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 24, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Graham, B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Waging War on Mosquitoes: Scientific Research and the Formation of Mosquito Brigades in French West Africa, 1899-1920
While the majority of colonial public health officials in Africa intermittently used measures for mosquito containment, the government of French West Africa made the creation of what were called mosquito brigades into a vital element of urban sanitary policy. The project seemed to offer a chance to curb the impact of mosquito-borne disease on the colonial economy. Yet, despite the full support of sanitary policy on the federal, colonial, and local levels, the government found that conducting a "War on Mosquitoes" was far more difficult than they originally envisioned. The colonial government's mosquito brigades were unders...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 24, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Strother, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883: Weighing the Roles of Professor William Smith Forbes and Senator William James McKnight
Effective Anatomical Acts transformed medical education and curtailed grave-robbing. William S. Forbes, Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, authored the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1867, but it was ineffective. In December of 1882, Forbes and accomplices were charged with grave-robbing. Forbes was acquitted in early 1883, but his accomplices were all convicted; nevertheless, these events precipitated a strengthened Anatomy Act in 1883. Forbes was crowned the Father of the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act and was revered by the Philadelphia medical community for his personal sacrifices for medical ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 24, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wright, J. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650-1720)
This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in science, commerce, and society. Modern research has mostly focused on the first of these, largely due to the abundance of medico-historical data. While appreciating these findings, this article proposes to integrate the medical trajectory in a richer narrative, by drawing particular attention to the acculturation of the bark in commerce and society. Although the evidence we have for these two trajectories is still sketchy and disproportionate, it can nevertheless help us to make sense of sources that have no...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 24, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Klein, W., Pieters, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Geoffrey Keynes's Two-Fold Vision: Medical Savant-Connoisseur and Literary Bibliographer
This article argues that these endeavors did not inhabit separate worlds, but rather his bibliographic methods of collecting and sorting were deeply interwoven with his therapeutic practices and medical ways of knowing. The article also examines the profound influence his engagement with the works of William Blake had on his battle against the reigning medical orthodoxy and on the humanity of his relationship with his patients. It concludes that Keynes’ story sheds light on a now distant medico-cultural world where literary studies, often centered on book collecting and critique, were not only highly valued, but were...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 24, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kutcher, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Tamara Giles-Vernick, L. A. James, and J. R. Webb, eds. Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control * Ruth J. Prince and Rebecca Marsland, eds. Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives * Wenzel Geissler, ed. Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ngalamulume, K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Don B. Olsen. True Valor: Barney Clark and the Utah Artificial Heart
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: McKellar, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

James C. Mohr. Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Korostyshevsky, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Diane Kiesel. She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Smith, S. L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Charissa J. Threat. Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Fairman, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Ulf Schmidt. Secret Science. A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ede, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

S. D. Lamb. Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lanzoni, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Anne Hardy. Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Steere-Williams, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Bridie Andrews. The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 * Sean Hsiang-lin Lei. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Chiang, H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Melissa N. Stein. Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Summers, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research