Cryptic Pregnancies and their Legal Consequences in Pre-Modern Finland
This article investigates a woman's total unawareness of being pregnant and the legal consequences of this phenomenon in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Finland. Totally unexpected births of viable neonates have an occurrence rate of 1 in 2,500 in the modern Western world. The term used for this phenomenon in history is ‘cryptic pregnancy’. It refers to the medically defined condition ‘denial of pregnancy’ in its extreme form, in which the pregnancy is revealed to the woman only with the birth of her baby. The accounts of cryptic pregnancy given by the usual suspects of infanticide were mainly tr...
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Rautelin, M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Into the Dark Domain: The UK Web Archive as a Source for the Contemporary History of Public Health
This article reports the results of an invited pilot project that explores methodological issues surrounding use of this archive. It asks how the relationship between UK public health and local government was represented on the web, drawing on the ‘declinist’ historiography to frame its questions. It points up some difficulties in developing an aggregate picture of web content due to duplication of sites. It also highlights their potential for thematic and discourse analysis, using both text and image, illustrated through an argument about the contradictory rationale for public health policy under New Labour. (...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gorsky, M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Robert G.W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton, Leech
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Eichberg, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Gerald N. Grob, Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Katz, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Davies, D. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Ruth J. Prince and Rebecca Marsland (eds), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Webel, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Angela N. H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bud, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Laurie B. Green, John McKiernan-Gonzalez and Martin Summers, (eds), Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gamble, V. N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939-45
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Millward, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Tiffany Watt Smith, On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brown, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard (eds), Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Reinarz, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Christopher Bonfield, Jonathan Reinarz and Teresa Huguet-Termes, (eds), Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sweetinburgh, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Nancy G. Siraisi, Communities of Learned Experience. Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Steinke, H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Louise Hill Curth, 'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse': Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Raber, K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, The Fifteenth Century XII: Society in an Age of Plague
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 24, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bowers, K. W. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
