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"The Glamour of Arabic Numbers": Pliny Earle's Challenge to Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
A well-established interpretation associates the nineteenth-century psychiatrist Pliny Earle's deflation of high cure rates for insanity with the onset of a persistent malaise in patient treatment and public health policy during the Gilded Age. This essay comes not to praise Earle but to correct and clarify interpretations, however well intentioned, that are incomplete and inaccurate. Several points are made: the overwhelming influence of antebellum enthusiasm on astonishing therapeutic claims; the interrogation of high "recovery" rates begun decades before Earle's ultimate provocation; and, however disruptive, the heurist...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Goodheart, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Music, Mechanism, and the "Sonic Turn" in Physical Diagnosis
The sonic diagnostic techniques of percussion and mediate auscultation advocated by Leopold von Auenbrugger and R. T. H. Laennec developed within larger musical contexts of practice, notation, and epistemology. Earlier, Francois-Nicolas Marquet proposed a musical notation of pulse that connected felt pulsation with heard music. Though contemporary vitalists rejected Marquet's work, mechanists such as Albrecht von Haller included it into the larger discourse about the physiological manifestations of bodily fluids and fibers. Educated in that mechanistic physiology, Auenbrugger used musical vocabulary to present his work on ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pesic, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Constitutional Therapy and Clinical Racial Hygiene in Weimar and Nazi Germany
The paper examines the history of constitutional therapy in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Focusing on Walther Jaensch's "Institute for Constitutional Research" at the Charité in Berlin, it shows how an entrepreneurial scientist successfully negotiated the changing social and political landscape of two very different political regimes and mobilized considerable public and private resources for his projects. During the Weimar period, his work received funding from various state agencies as well as the Rockefeller foundation, because it fit well with contemporary approaches in public hygiene and social medicine that emphasi...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hau, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tobbell, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kutcher, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Keel, T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Yudell, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Health Rights Are Human Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kluchin, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: De Barros, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender and Population Politics after Slavery
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gomez, P. F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Adler, J. L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Berger, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Medical Aid, Repression, and International Relations: The East German Hospital at Metema
Between 1984 and 1988, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) built a hospital in a remote part of Ethiopia, close to the Sudanese border. The project evolved in a complex combination of contexts, including the general foreign policy goals of the GDR, its specific alliance with Ethiopia, the famine of 1984–85, civil war in Ethiopia, and a controversial resettlement program by the government of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Though almost unknown today, it was a high-profile project at the time, which received the personal support both by Erich Honecker in the GDR and Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia. However, their interest w...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Borowy, I. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

An Asymmetrical Network: National and International Dimensions of the Development of Mexican Physiology
This article examines the history of Mexican physiology during the period 1910–60 when two noted investigators, José J. Izquierdo, first, and Arturo Rosenblueth, second, inscribed their work into an international network of medical research. The network had at its center the laboratory of Walter B. Cannon at Harvard University. The Rockefeller Foundation was its main supporter. Rosenblueth was quite familiar with the network because he worked with Cannon at Harvard for over ten years before returning to Mexico in the early 1940s. Izquierdo and Rosenblueth developed different strategies to face adverse conditio...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cueto, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research