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Louis Sambon and the Clash of Pellagra Etiologies in Italy and the United States, 1905-14
This article explores the extent to which the bacterial concept of disease acted as an obstacle to the understanding of deficiency diseases, by focusing on explorations into the cause of pellagra in the early twentieth century. In 1900, pellagra had been epidemic in Italy for 150 years and was soon to become so in the United States, yet the responses of medical investigators differed substantially. To account for these, the article reconstructs the sharply contrasting reactions to a provocative theory proposed by Louis Sambon. Applying a tropical diseases approach to pellagra, Sambon argued that pellagra had nothing at all...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gentilcore, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Animals, Pictures, and Skeletons: Andreas Vesalius's Reinvention of the Public Anatomy Lesson
In this paper, I examine the procedures used by Andreas Vesalius for conducting public dissections in the early sixteenth century. I point out that in order to overcome the limitations of public anatomical demonstration noted by his predecessors, Vesalius employed several innovative strategies, including the use of animals as dissection subjects, the preparation and display of articulated skeletons, and the use of printed and hand-drawn illustrations. I suggest that the examination of these three strategies for resolving the challenges of public anatomical demonstration helps us to reinterpret Vesalius's contributions to s...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 8, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Shotwell, R. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pape, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Maines, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Keller, R. C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Seat at the Table Problem: Broadening Reception for Historians of Medicine and Public Health
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Chowkwanyun, M. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research

The History of Medicine in Medical Education
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ludmerer, K. M. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research

Does History Matter? Commentary on "Making the Case for History in Medical Education"
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Arrizabalaga, J. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research

Making the Case for History in Medical Education
Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent obstacles, from limited resources to curricular time constraints and skepticism about whether history actually is essential for physicians. Recent proposals have suggested that history should ally itself with the other medical humanities and make the case that together they can foster medical professionalism. We articulate a different approach and make the case for history as an essential component of medi...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, D. S., Greene, J. A., Duffin, J., Harley Warner, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Nursing Under the Old Poor Law in Midland and Eastern England 1780-1834
This article uses data drawn from the overseers' accounts and supporting documentation in thirty-six parishes spread over four English counties, to answer three basic questions. First, what was the character, extent, structure, range of activities, and remuneration of the nursing labor force under the Old Poor Law between the late eighteenth century and the implementation of the New Poor Law in the 1830s? Second, were there regional and intra-regional differences in the scale and nature of spending on nursing care for the sick poor? Third, how might one explain such differences? The article suggests that nursing became an ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: King, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"Made Up from Many Experimentall Notions": The Society of Apothecaries, Medical Humanism, and the Rhetoric of Experience in 1630s London
This article examines an important new manuscript discovery: a set of lectures delivered at the Society of Apothecaries in 1634 by four members of the Society. No evidence of the intellectual and methodological assumptions of the apothecaries in this period has previously been known; the article contextualizes the lectures, and identifies the authors—a prominent group of apothecaries centered on the controversial John Buggs and the botanist Thomas Johnson. It then proceeds to discuss the contents of the lectures, which consist, to a remarkable extent, of reflections on the nature of physic and pharmacy inspired by th...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Levitin, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Anatomical Mercury: Changing Understandings of Quicksilver, Blood, and the Lymphatic System, 1650-1800
This article argues that mercury had a distinct meaning in anatomy, which was initially influenced by alchemical and classical understandings of mercury. Moreover, it demonstrates that the choice of mercury as an anatomical injection mass was deliberate and informed by an intricate cultural understanding of its materiality, and that its use in anatomical preparations and its perception as an anatomical material evolved with the understanding of the circulatory and lymphatic systems. By using the material culture of anatomical mercury as a starting point, I seek to provide a new, object-driven interpretation of complex and ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hendriksen, M. M. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Panic and Culture: Hysterike Pnix in the Ancient Greek World
Starting perhaps in the second century BCE, and with Hippocratic precedent, ancient medical writers described a condition they called hysterike pnix or "uterine suffocation." This paper argues that uterine suffocation was, in modern terms, a functional somatic syndrome characterized by chronic anxiety and panic attacks. Transcultural psychiatrists have identified and described a number of similar panic-type syndromes in modern populations, and a plausible theory of how they work has been advanced. These insights, applied to the ancient disease of hysterike pnix, demystify the condition and illuminate the experience of the ...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mattern, S. P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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