Shauna Devine Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Schultz, J. E. Tags: Focus on Learning from Pain Source Type: research
George Weisz, Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mold, A. Tags: Focus on Learning from Pain Source Type: research
Rob Boddice (ed.), Pain and Emotion in Modern History
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Goldberg, D. Tags: Focus on Learning from Pain Source Type: research
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Boddice, R. Tags: Focus on Learning from Pain Source Type: research
Translating Smoke Signals: West German Medicine and Tobacco Research, 1950-1970
The article examines West German medical discourse about smoking and lung cancer. Drawing on articles in medical journals and the press, books by physicians, documents in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and the German Federal Archive, it reconstructs the extent, sources and interpretation of tobacco-related knowledge. Medical writers, it finds, were well-informed about Nazi-era German and postwar international research. Researchers and physicians generally accepted the science of critical tobacco research by the 1960s. They did not, however, advance lung cancer and smoking to the status of a public-health crisis or ca...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Harsch, D. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Image of the Self-Sacrificing Doctor: Medicine, Taxes and Unemployment in 1930s Turkey
This article aims to problematise this discourse through the way the doctors utilised it pragmatically to resolve certain issues that were important for their community. Two controversies will form the focus of the paper: the first concerns the employment problem of new graduates of the Faculty of Medicine. The second is the income tax controversy that took place between the doctors and government in the first half of the 1930s, during the preparations of a new tax law. In the final part of this article, I will argue that these two controversies are linked to the question of advancement of medical knowledge. (Source: Socia...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Guvenc-Salgirli, S. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Black Celebrities, Selfhood, and Psychiatry in the Civil Rights Era: The Wiltwyck School for Boys and the Floyd Patterson House
This paper contends that a color-blind psychologisation of black interiority constituted one way in which activists imagined African Americans as both fully human and deserving of equal citizenship during the long civil rights era. Between 1954 and 1964, the Wiltwyck School for Boys, a reform school with a predominantly black student body in Esopus, New York, expanded their therapeutic services into Manhattan, creating one of the US's first psychiatric aftercare programmes. Singer Harry Belafonte and boxing champion Floyd Patterson, two black culture heroes linked to the civil rights movement, lent their support as the Wil...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Doyle, D. A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Class, Health and the Proposed British Anthropometric Survey of 1904
This article examines the state of anthropometric knowledge in the late nineteenth century, and the genesis and rejection of the 1904 survey. It reviews the political, medical and moral opinions which were cited both for and against its implementation, focusing particularly on the perceived reluctance of the working class to be measured. The decision of Campbell-Bannerman's government to institute only school medical inspections suggests that this was an area in which Liberal values ultimately prevented too close an interference with British bodies. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Juzda Smith, E. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Fashioning a Role for Medicine: Alexandre-Louis-Paul Blanchet and the Care of the Deaf in Mid-nineteenth-century France
This article illuminates the strategies pursued in the production and reception of medical knowledge, by examining the controversies around Parisian physician Alexandre Blanchet during the mid-nineteenth century. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Arnaud, S. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
'A Burden on the County': Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire
This article explores the responses of the Poor Law authorities, asylum superintendents and Lunacy Commissioners to the huge influx of Irish patients into the Lancashire public asylum system, a system facing intense pressure in terms of numbers and costs, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In particular, it examines the ways in which patients were passed, bartered and exchanged between two sets of institution—workhouses and asylums. In the mid-nineteenth century removal to asylums was advocated for all cases of mental disorder by asylum medical superintendents and the Lunacy Commissioners; by its end, asyl...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cox, C., Marland, H. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
From Women's Expectations to Scientific Specimens: The Fate of Miscarriage Materials in Nineteenth-Century America
This article explores physicians' and women's descriptions of miscarriage in late-nineteenth-century America. As the science of human embryology developed, doctors in the USA began seeking out miscarriage cases in order to access fetal and embryonic tissues, spurring increased medical interest in pregnancy. But women played a key role in this new medical and scientific world as well. Facing increasing restrictions upon their control over fertility, many American women understood miscarriage to be a relief, or even a joy. These positive reactions aided the medical acquisition of the newly valued specimens. Women and their d...
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Withycombe, S. K. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
This article explores the social and cultural meanings attached to the poxed body through an analysis of Spanish medical, literary, and patient sources. How was the poxed body understood in everyday contexts? How did social concerns affect medical discourse on the disease? What strategies did the ill use to navigate the socially-charged repercussions of visible symptoms? Ultimately, patients developed techniques of obfuscation and ambivalence to manage the social framing of their diseased bodies evident in medical and popular literature. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Berco, C. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gravelle, N. L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Virginia Berridge, Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Courtwright, D. T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb (eds), Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Neelakantan, V. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
