Malaria and Colonialism in Korea, c.1876-c.1945
This article considers the problem of malaria in the Korean peninsula from 1876 to 1945, focusing particularly on the impact of Japanese colonial rule. One aspect which receives special attention is malaria in urban contexts. The relationship between malaria and urbanisation is shown to be extremely complex, fluctuating regardless of specific interventions against the disease. In rural and urban areas, Japanese antimalarial measures concentrated on military garrisons, at the expense of both civilian settlers and Koreans. However, it was Koreans who bore the brunt of the malaria problem, which was exacerbated in many areas ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kim, J.-R. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
'Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies and sex in relation to fertility, to argue that because old bodies were understood as either infertile (post-menopausal women) or sub-fertile (old men) they were therefore characterised as unsuitable, undesirable and inappropriate sexual partners. Perceptions of old bodies, their sexual abilities, desirability and behaviour were remarkably consistent from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century. The ridiculing of old men and women's sexual behaviour that permeated contemporary culture in stories, ballads and jokes, alongside medical literature that character...
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Toulalan, S. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
'They are called Imperfect men: Male Infertility and Sexual Health in Early Modern England
This article will demonstrate that male infertility was not absent from medical literature, but appeared in a variety of settings including tests for infertility, seventeenth-century handbills for treatments, and surgical treatises. It will show that medical and surgical writers accepted that men could be rendered infertile, but still sexually capable, in a variety of ways. Moreover, the article will show that seventeenth-century surgeons expected male readers to be concerned about their reproductive potential and constructed a framework of efficacy based upon their ability to secure on-going fertility. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Evans, J. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
Literate Laywomen, Male Medical Practitioners and the Treatment of Fertility Problems in Early Modern England
This article examines the choices made by women in the literate classes in England in the seventeenth century with regards to the treatment of their fertility problems. It is not concerned with the specific cures used, but rather with who was considered an expert on female fertility problems and where women sought treatment when they suffered from such problems. It argues that female fertility patients of the literate classes were unlikely to approach male practitioners to treat their conditions (even more so than for other medical conditions) and were more likely to self-treat or seek advice from other women (lay or profe...
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oren-Magidor, D. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
'In the Merry Month of May: Instructions for Ensuring Fertility in MS British Library, Lansdowne 380
This study has chosen to engage with the larger theme of whether women had access to medical writings in the vernaculars of later-medieval England and whether this enabled them to control their own fertility. The paper shows that many women did have direct access to written knowledge, and that this knowledge combined theoretical and practical understanding for use in a domestic setting. Rather than being disenfranchised from responsibility for their own fertility, women collaborated with their husbands to ensure offspring and the future of their families. By refining the understanding of the use of manuscripts, the source ...
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tyers, T. L. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
Men and Infertility in Late Medieval English Medicine
This article explores the ways the subject was discussed in a sample of widely circulated medieval Latin medical texts and examines how this information was adapted in English translations and recipe collections aimed at a wider audience which included medical practitioners. It argues that the possibility of male infertility was often recognised in learned medicine and that the forms of male infertility discussed went beyond sexual dysfunction and were presented as more closely equivalent to female infertility. However, male reproductive disorders were not so prominent in less academic texts aimed at medical practitioners....
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Rider, C. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
Anne of Bohemia and Her Struggle to Conceive
This article will examine and transcribe The National Archives E 101/402/18, a six-membrane collection of apothecary bills containing medicines purchased for Anne of Bohemia, first queen of Richard II (r. 1377–99). These bills date from the final year of Anne's life (she died of plague in June 1394), which indicates that the queen did not accept her childlessness as her permanent fate. In addition, Anne's treatment sheds light on the medicinal practices of late medieval English elites from the perspective of practice rather than theory (as presented in medieval texts). (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Geaman, K. L. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
Introduction: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Although the history of pregnancy and childbirth have been studied extensively in recent decades, infertility has received less historical attention, especially for the pre-modern period. This collection makes steps towards filling this gap. The introduction offers some insights on the significance of the history of infertility to scholarship on gender relations and the construction of gendered identities, midwifery and reproductive medicine, and the history of the family. It further offers some context and background to the history of infertility by briefly surveying how premodern medicine explained fertility problems and...
Source: Social History of Medicine - June 19, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oren-Magidor, D., Rider, C. Tags: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Source Type: research
Therese Jones, Delese Wear and Lester D. Friedman (eds), Health Humanities Reader
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Macnaughton, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Susan Burch and Michael Rembis (eds), Disability Histories
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Linker, B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Anthony R. Rees, The Antibody Molecule: From Antitoxins to Therapeutic Antibodies
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Meyer, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay, Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kroker, K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Lucas Richert, Conservatism, Consumer Choice and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hall, W. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Barbara Gurr, Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lira, N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Michael Yudell, Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
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Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Braun, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
