Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr (eds), Wounds in the Middle Ages
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wallis, F. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
British Romantic Generalism in the Age of Specialism, 1870-1990
This essay explores the impact of ‘generalism’ and ‘general practice’ on the specialisation of British medicine using the case of neurology in Britain to reveal characteristics of British ‘generalist medical culture’ from 1870 to 1990. It argues that ‘generalism’ represented a particular epistemological position in Victorian medicine, one that then created a natural bridge between science and medicine over which almost all physicians and scientists were comfortable walking. The legacies of that Victorian ‘generalist preference’ exerted an enduring impact on the sp...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Casper, S. T., Welsh, R. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Were the First Transplants Done by Donation after Cardiac Death?
Controlled organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) after awaiting cardiac arrest (Maastricht Category III) has been controversial since its formalisation in the Pittsburgh Protocol in 1992. Much of the controversy involves its abbreviated time to declaration of death by cardiocirculatory criteria and its departure from brain death in the required determination of death. Proponents assert that DCD is a renaissance of the earliest days of transplantation, before widespread acceptance of the concept of brain death. Equivalence between modern DCD and historic non-heartbeating organ donation is used to justify DCD practice and...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: White, F. J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Gospel of Good Obstetrics: Joseph Bolivar DeLee's Vision for Childbirth in the United States
This article reconsiders the place of obstetrician Joseph Bolivar DeLee in the historical narrative. Often celebrated as a founding father of the profession, and denigrated as one of the leading proponents of instrumental childbirth, DeLee was not entirely the man historians and childbirth activists blame him for being. Rather than seeking to resolve the contradiction between DeLee's widely cited professional writings and his lesser known practices, this article instead focuses on the broader tenure of DeLee's career, particularly his ‘Gospel of Good Obstetrics’. Doing so permits us to see the efforts of a phys...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lewis, C. H. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
More 'Marginal Men: A Prosopography of Scottish Shop-keeping Doctors in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article traces the class background, educational pathways and career profiles of over 100 Scottish medical practitioners who owned dispensary, and more general, retail, stores in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It demonstrates that such doctors were often experienced practitioners who held a range of additional medical appointments. It also outlines the inter-connections between the professions of medicine and pharmacy with many sample doctors having experience as chemists and druggists before entering medicine. Following the work of Inkster on ‘marginal men’, it suggests that the medica...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jenkinson, J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Accidents and Apathy: The Construction of the 'Robens Philosophy of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961-1974
This article advances a more nuanced historical understanding of the Report and its ethos—the ‘Robens philosophy’—than hitherto developed, situating its assumptions about accidents, regulation and the role of the state in the social, economic and political context of Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s. Highlighting the interaction between these trends and long-established regulatory practices, the article argues that the turn to ‘self-regulation’ heralded by the Robens Report was highly convincing from a political and regulatory perspective at the time it was promulgated. (Source: Soci...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sirrs, C. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Liberalism and the Crisis of Health Care in Harlem in the 1960s
This article examines the Columbia University/Harlem Hospital affiliation in the 1960s. It brings the discussion to 2010 when the Health and Hospitals Corporation dissolved the relationship after years of mismanagement, carelessness and tragedy; and entered a corporate phase of privatization. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oltman, A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Patronage and Enlightened Medicine in the Eighteenth-century British Military: The Rise and Fall of Dr John Pringle, 1707-1782
In 1752, the Scottish-born physician John Pringle (1707–1782) published his Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and Garrison based on his experiences as an army physician during the War of the Austrian Succession. The work was to propel him to the position of personal physician to King George III and President of the Royal Society. This paper examines Pringle's contribution in the light of his Scottish origins and the interests of his Hanoverian patrons. It explores his effort to apply his physician's expertise to the protection of groups subject to outbreaks of epidemic fever and traces his approach fro...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Weidenhammer, E. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Embodying 'the new white race: Colonial Doctors and Settler Society in Algeria, 1878-1911
This article examines the cultural identifications of doctors of French origin working for the colonial medical service in Algeria at the end of the nineteenth century. As representatives of the state, doctors were expected to uphold the gendered values of civilisation which underpinned the French Third Republic and its empire. Yet they also formed part of a mixed European settler community which insisted upon its own racial and cultural specificity. Faced with a series of centralising reforms to the service from 1878, doctors tied their pursuit of professional freedom to a wider settler movement for autonomy. In so doing,...
Source: Social History of Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ann Chopin, C. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Teresa Ortiz-Gomez and Maria Jesus Santesmas (eds), Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hoffman, B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Rod Philips, Alcohol a History
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Berridge, V. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Gary B. Ferngren. Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Petro, A. M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cooper, T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Winkler, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Clare Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century
(Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - October 28, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hall, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
