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Investigating "Mass Hysteria" in Early Postcolonial Uganda: Benjamin H. Kagwa, East African Psychiatry, and the Gisu
This article uses Kagwa's investigation to explore some of the difficulties facing East Africa's first generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry. During this period, psychiatrists worked in an intellectual climate that was both attempting to deal with the legacy of colonial racism, and which placed faith in African psychiatrists to reveal more culturally sensitive insights into African psychopathology. The epidemics were the first major challenge for psychiatrists such as Kagwa precisely because they appeared to confirm what colonial psychiatrists had been warning for years—that west...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pringle, Y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Alfred Russel Wallace's Medical Libertarianism: State Medicine, Human Progress, and Evolutionary Purpose
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and explorer of South America and the Malay Archipelago, secured his place in history by independently discovering the theory of natural selection. His letter outlining the theory was sent from Ternate in eastern Indonesia and received at Down House, according to Charles Darwin (1809–82), on June 18, 1858, prompting the now-famed evolutionist to rush his languishing manuscript to press. Wallace's contributions to evolutionary biology, biogeography, and anthropology are well known, but his medical views have received far less attention. Within the context of a stride...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Flannery, M. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

One > Sex>: Observations, Suppositions, and Airy Speculations on Fetal Sex Anatomy in British Scientific Literature, 1794-1871
This article explores some key British medical and allied scientific texts, with reference to associated Continental literature, as a means of illustrating the complexity of the two-sex paradigm and the unexpected transformation of gender possibilities that it helped produce through the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century. Discourses surrounding the first direct observations of the earliest development of fetal urinogenital anatomy were pivotal. The prevailing view that the incipient embryo was sexually undifferentiated (a paragon of the one-sex paradigm) was challenged by the Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brooks, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Diabetes and "Defective" Genes in the Twentieth-Century United States
In the decades following the discovery of insulin, eugenicists grew concerned that more diabetics would survive into their reproductive years and contribute "defective" genes to the gene pool. Insulin thus came to be seen as both a blessing for the individual and a problem for the future of humankind. Nevertheless, diabetics in the United States were neither prevented nor discouraged from reproducing. I argue that this stemmed from the widespread belief that diabetes was a disease primarily of middle-class whites, who possessed positive traits that outweighed their particular genetic defect. Historians of eugenics have dem...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - December 16, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tuchman, A. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

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Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hogan, A. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Campos, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Weikart, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Moore, K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mix, L. A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Nielsen, K. E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Katz, J. G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - October 6, 2014 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Stephens, E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research