Social History of Medicine

Articles

Marianne B. Samayoa

Roy Porter Student Prize Essay: More than Quacks: Seeking Medical Care in Late Colonial New Spain
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 1-18; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vanessa McMahon

Reading the Body: Dissection and the ‘Murder’ of Sarah Stout, Hertfordshire, 1699
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 19-35; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angus H. Ferguson

The Lasting Legacy of a Bigamous Duchess: The Benchmark Precedent for Medical Confidentiality
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 37-53; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Ellis

The Asylum, the Poor Law, and a Reassessment of the Four-Shilling Grant: Admissions to the County Asylums of Yorkshire in the Nineteenth Century
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 21, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 55-71; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan Lemar

‘The Liberty to Spread Disaster’: Campaigning for Compulsion in the Control of Venereal Diseases in Edinburgh in the 1920s
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 73-86; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank James Tester and Paule McNicoll

‘Why Don't they Get It?’ Talk of Medicine as Science. St Luke's Hospital, Panniqtuuq, Baffin Island
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 21, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 87-106; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cecily Hunter

Medicine of Senescence or Managing a Hospital System: The Resistible Rise of Geriatric Medicine in the State of Victoria
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 107-125; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Abraham and Courtney Davis

Testing Times: The Emergence of the Practolol Disaster and its Challenge to British Drug Regulation in the Modern Period
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 20, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 127-147; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus on Psychiatry, Psychology and History

Eric J. Engstrom

A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 149-150; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pauline Prior

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 150-152; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katrin Schultheiss

La formation des infirmiers en psychiatrie: histoire de l'école cantonale vaudoise d'infirmières et d'infirmiers en psychiatrie 1961–1996
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 152-153; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. E. Berrios

Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 153-155; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariano Ben Plotkin

Freud in the Antipodes. A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 155-157; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joy Damousi

Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 157-158; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Jennifer D. Keene

Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 159-160; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ornella Moscucci

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 160-161; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Tone

Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 161-162; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Nottingham

Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 162-164; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephan Curtis

Krankenhaus und lokale Politik 1770–1850: Das Beispiel Düsseldorf
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 164-165; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Maynard-Moody

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 165-166; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucinda McCray Beier

Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 167-168; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Tuck

Poverty, Health and Reproduction in Early Colonial Uganda
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 168-170; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Harrison

Maladies, Preventives and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 170-171; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline Jenkinson

Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 171-172; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary E. Fissell

Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 172-174; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert John Perrins

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 174-175; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Parle

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 175-177; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Healy

Framing ADHD Children: A Critical Examination of the History, Discourse, and Everyday Experience of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 177-178; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. D. Eddy

Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 178-179; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoff Barr

The New Politics of Medicine
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 179-181; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jürgen Helm

Zergliederungen—Anatomie und Wahrnehmung in der Frühen Neuzeit
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 181-183; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Burnham

Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its Discontents
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 183-184; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Greta Jones

Living with Polio. The Epidemic and its Survivors
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 184-186; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviewers

Reviewers
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 15, 2006
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 187-189; doi:10.1093/shm/hkj034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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