Social History of Medicine

Articles

Matthew Warner Osborn

Roy Porter Student Prize Essay Winner: Diseased Imaginations: Constructing Delirium Tremens in Philadelphia, 1813–1832
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 191-208; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy J. McHugh

Establishing Medical Men at the Paris Hôtel-Dieu, 1500–1715
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 209-224; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Sugg

‘Good Physic but Bad Food’: Early Modern Attitudes to Medicinal Cannibalism and its Suppliers
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 225-240; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iwan Rhys Morus

Bodily Disciplines and Disciplined Bodies: Instruments, Skills and Victorian Electrotherapeutics
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 241-259; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic Mothers in Dublin, 1930–1954
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 261-277; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Denham

The Surveys of the Birmingham Chronic Sick Hospitals, 1948–1960s
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 279-293; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Welshman

Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 295-312; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erika Dyck

‘Hitting Highs at Rock Bottom’: LSD Treatment for Alcoholism, 1950–1970
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 313-329; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus on East Asia

Akihito Suzuki

The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection: Medical Photographs from Japan around 1900
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 331-333; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aya Homei

Practical Pursuits: Takano Chei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 333-334; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nathan Sivin

Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 334-336; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert John Perrins

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing and the West to 1848
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 336-338; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paula A. Michaels

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945–1963: A Medicine of Revolution
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 338-340; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kim Taylor

Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 340-341; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Deborah Brunton

What is Medical History?
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 343; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilana Löwy

Models: The Third Dimension of Science
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 344-345; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte Roberts

Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 345-346; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marco Sunder

The Hidden Cost of Economic Development. The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 347-348; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy F. Murphy

Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 348-349; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jasmine Gartner

AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 349-350; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Dimeo

Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 351-352; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent Vinikas

Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 352-353; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elisha P. Renne

Menstruation: A Cultural History
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 353-354; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter van Minnen

From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 355-356; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Enrique Perdiguero

Health Care and Poor Relief in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southern Europe
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 356-357; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lianne McTavish

The Court Midwife
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 358-359; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alison Nuttall

Stutter's Casebook: A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839–1841
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 359-360; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James E. McWilliams

Food in World History
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 360-362; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael French

Food Poisoning, Policy and Politics: Corned Beef and Typhoid in Britain in the 1960s
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 362-363; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Crowther

Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and their Victims
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 363-364; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek A. Dow

Dirt: Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 364-365; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten Timmermann

Krankheit im Labor: Robert Koch und die medizinische Bakteriologie
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 366-367; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Greenlees

Polio: An American Story
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 367-368; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Nottingham

Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media. Producing Health in the Twentieth Century
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 368-370; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Allan Young

Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 370-372; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Gentilcore

Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 372-373; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy D. Walker

Enslaving Spirits: The Portuguese–Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and its Hinterland, c. 1550–1830
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 373-375; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviewers

Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2006 19: 377-379; doi:10.1093/shm/hkl036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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