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Waiting for the Flu: Cognitive Inertia and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19
This study looks at public awareness and understanding of the Spanish flu in the United States between June 1918, when the flu became "Spanish," and the end of September when the deadly second wave reached the majority of the country. Based on an extensive reading of local newspapers, it finds a near universal lack of preparation or panic or other signs of personal concern among those in the unaffected areas, despite extensive and potentially worrying coverage of the flu's progress. The normal reaction to news of the inexorable approach of a pandemic of uncertain virulence is anxiety and action. The Spanish flu produced ne...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 10, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Dicke, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Fighting for Business: The Limits of Professional Cooperation among American Doctors during the First World War
The American medical profession participated extensively in preparedness and mobilization for the First World War, with more than one in five doctors voluntarily enlisting in various branches of the Army and Navy Medical Corps. Medical officers were widely valorized for suspending their civilian careers and for sacrificing their professional income while in service. Because of the meager commissions that medical officers received by comparison with fees many doctors earned in established private medical practices, scores of county medical societies implemented organizational solutions to this business problem, with the hop...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - April 10, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Schafer, J. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ruis, A. R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Nature & Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Martucci, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kim, S. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Higuchi, T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Devine, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Flannery, M. A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bonea, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Sciences of the Soul. The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bakker, P. J. J. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wang, H.-y. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Commentary on Raquel A. G. Reyes, "Environmentalist Thinking and the Question of Disease Causation in Late Spanish Philippines"
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, S. D. Tags: Commentary Source Type: research