Bill Luckin, Death and Survival in Urban Britain, 1800-1950
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Steere-Williams, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Matthews-Grieco, S. F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton and Bruce T. Moran (eds), Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Fransen, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Marilyn Nicoud, Le prince et les medecins: pensee et pratiques medicales a Milan (1402-1476)
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brenner, E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Isla Fay, Health and the City: Disease, Environment and Government in Norwich, 1200-1575
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gibbs, F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Zubin Mistry, Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500-900
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Müller, W. P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Ido Israelowich, Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Curtis, T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Patricia A. Baker, The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World
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Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Flemming, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
The Records of Stannington Childrens Sanatorium: Charting Half a Century of Tuberculosis Care
This article explores the historic records of Stannington Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium focusing largely on the 5,041 patient records and 14,660 radiographs that make up the bulk of the collection and span from the 1930s to the 1960s. By taking a handful of illustrations from within the collection, it aims to demonstrate the various avenues of research available as well as the unique nature of the collection owing to its focus on children, with the comprehensive nature of its records making it invaluable. The sanatorium’s records are made particularly pertinent by the fact that they span the pre- to the po...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Rushton, K. Tags: Sources and Resources Source Type: research
The Age of Scientific Gynaecological Masseurs. 'Non-intrusive Male Hands, Female Intimacy, and Womens Health around 1900
The closing decades of the 19th century saw the dawn of a new and popular trend in scientific Gynaecology: genital- or uterine massage. The method was invented by a Swedish Army Major and was extremely intimate, even judged by gynaecological standards. In retrospect the method can be understood as something that helped clear away the last traces of resistance preventing physicians to, in an obvious a non-shameful manner, approach women's reproductive organs and their associated problems. In an attempt to understand the method's popularity and scientific success better, it is related to a larger tension-filled debate found ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ottosson, A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
'A Plea for the Lancet: Bloodletting, Therapeutic Epistemology, and Professional Identity in Late Nineteenth-century American Medicine
Despite the declining use of bloodletting, American physicians vigorously debated its therapeutic value throughout the final decades of the nineteenth century. This debate was a terrain upon which physicians expressed deeply held ideas about professional identity and clinical epistemology. Many bloodletting proponents saw its continued defence as a way of affirming the superiority of mainstream physicians over irregular practitioners as well as the epistemological priority of clinical experience over laboratory knowledge; others sought to reconcile the practice of bloodletting with the latest physiological and bacteriologi...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anders, E. O. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Weighting for Health: Management, Measurement and Self-surveillance in the Modern Household
Histories of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine emphasise the rise of professional and scientific authority, and suggest a decline in domestic health initiatives. Exploring the example of weight management in Britain, we argue that domestic agency persisted and that new regimes of measurement and weighing were adapted to personal and familial preferences as they entered the household. Drawing on print sources and objects ranging from prescriptive literature to postcards and ‘personal weighing machines’, the article examines changing practices of self-management as cultural norms initially dic...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bivins, R., Marland, H. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
Under the Covers? Commerce, Contraceptives and Consumers in England and Wales, 1880-1960
This article provides a much needed commercial perspective to the gradual growth in consumption of birth control appliances in England and Wales between 1880 and 1960. By drawing on underutilized parliamentary sources and the hitherto neglected business records of manufacturers, vendors and distributors, this new approach reveals that consumption patterns were more varied in terms of class, gender and geographical location than scholars have generally recognized. In particular, its analysis of the production, promotion and distribution of birth control appliances alongside medical goods intended for domestic use during thi...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, C. L. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
'Globules at Home: The History of Homeopathic Self-medication
This paper deals with the history of self-treatment in homeopathy, focusing mainly on the territories of the German Empire between 1870 and 1918, by reconstructing some of the conditions under which this took place. Consideration is given to why homeopathy was such an appropriate option for home medicine; how lay people acquired the knowledge to use homeopathic remedies at home in cases of illness; and what remedies were available for practising homeopathy in private households. The paper shows that the use of this ‘alternative’ method was a common and important part of the wide field of home remedies. (Source:...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Baschin, M. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
Health, Air and Material Culture in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Environment
This essay challenges the enduring view that medical definitions of unhealthy air and the measures devised to counter its noxious effects, remained unchanged for centuries. The focus on the home, domestic practices and household advice literature reveals that in the sixteenth century bad air was increasingly conceptualised as seasonally, locally and home-produced, rather than as being determined by distant, external and ungovernable agents. Inspired by a greater confidence in the possibility of controlling nature, environments and lifestyles, doctors and architects engaged in providing solutions and advice aimed to preserv...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cavallo, S. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
