Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala, Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940: The Forgotten History
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, T. F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Judith Rainhorn, ed., Sante et travail a la mine, XIXe-XXIe siecle,
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Moses, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny and Chris Williams (eds), Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Stowe, S. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Daniel Walther, Sex and Control: Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wald, E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Jose R. Jouve Martin, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Drinot, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
James Kennaway (ed), Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Raz, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu, The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Winterbottom, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Samuel, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Matthew M. Mesley and Louise E. Wilson, Contextualising Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gordon, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
The Hard School: Physical Treatments for War Neurosis in Britain during the Second World War
While accounts of the practice of military psychiatry during the Second World War have tended to emphasise the development of psychodynamic innovations such as therapeutic communities and group therapy in treating patients with war neurosis, this article explores the parallel use of ‘physical treatments’ by British practitioners during the conflict. Focusing on the work of William Sargant and his collaborators at the Sutton Emergency Hospital, it argues for the importance of these treatments not only for understanding the tenor of wartime psychiatry, but for demonstrating the attractions of physical treatments ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Roberts-Pedersen, E. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Transnational Nationalism and Idealistic Science: The Alcohol Question between the Wars
This article studies the interwar international conferences on the alcohol problem. How did they view the alcohol problem and its causes; what were the consequences for the individual and the society as a whole; and which solutions merited discussion? The first post-war conferences enjoyed an optimistic and internationalistic atmosphere, added to by American prohibition, which had given the temperance movement plenty to be hopeful about. But when the 1920s turned to the 1930s, the conferences were transformed into arenas for national solutions and into outright propaganda pieces. The responses to the alcohol problem debate...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Edman, J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Health Citizenship and Access to Health Services: Finland 1900-2000
By analysing access to health services, this paper explores the formation of health citizenship in Finland in the twentieth century. Health citizenship is seen as a part of social citizenship, which emphasises the citizen’s rights to social security. The article constructs four different historical layers of health citizenship, each of which emphasise different dimensions of accessibility and involve different inclusive and exclusive tensions. The article shows the change of focus from promoting the acceptability of medical knowledge and health services, to regional availability of the services in the 1920s–195...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Harjula, M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Strange Case of Hannah West: Skin Colour and the Search for Racial Difference
This article examines the strange case of Hannah West, a ‘very fair female of the white race of mankind’ who had patches of black skin upon her body. A closer glance at William Charles Wells’s 1818 posthumous publication of her case, Account of A female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a Negro, exposes the process through which Wells crafted an incipient theory of natural selection that was based upon the belief that innate racial differences between blacks and whites were a result of generational adaptations to specific disease environments. Finally, this article demonst...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hogarth, R. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Medical Eponyms: Patient Advocates, Professional Interests and the Persistence of Honorary Naming
Eponyms have been adopted for the naming of disorders since the mid-nineteenth century. Physicians have favoured eponyms for many reasons, including their descriptive neutrality and role in the awards system of medicine. This paper examines the changing interest groups involved in the adoption of eponyms since 1960. As patient advocates have increasingly collaborated in the medical construction of their disorders, they have played a more influential role in the naming of conditions. This has particularly been the case in disorders known by descriptive terms identifying stigmatising features, such as mental, physical and be...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hogan, A. J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Immigration, Statecraft and Public Health: The 1920 Aliens Order, Medical Examinations and the Limitations of the State in England
This article considers the medical measures of the 1920 Aliens Order barring aliens from Britain. Building on existing local and port public health inspection, the requirement for aliens to be medically inspected before landing significantly expanded the duties of these state agencies and necessitated the creation of a new level of physical infrastructure and administrative machinery. This article closely examines the workings and limitations of alien medical inspection in two of England’s major ports—Liverpool and London—and sheds light on the everyday working of the Act. In doing so it reflects on the a...
Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Taylor, B. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
