Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
Original Articles
Miracle Mediators as Healing Practitioners: The Knowledge and Practice of Healing with Relics Nicole Archambeau
Tensions between the Físico-Mor and the University of Coimbra: The Accreditation of Medical Practitioners in Ancien-Regime Portugal Laurinda Abreu
‘By What Right does the Scalpel Enter the Pauper’s Corpse?’ Dissections and Consent in Late Nineteenth-Century Belgium Tinne Claes
Picturing Abortion Opposition in Sweden: Lennart Nilsson’s Early Photographs of Embryos and Fetuses Solveig Jülich
Tuberculosis and Political Economy: Industrial Wealth and National Health in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, c. 1900–1940 Enric J Novella
English and French Women Doctors in International Debates on birth control (1920–1935) Caroline Rusterholz
Work: Disease, Cure, and National Ethos in Modern Italy Daphne Rozenblatt
Socialist Utopia in Practice: Everyday Life and Medical Authority in a Hungarian Polio Hospital Dora Vargha
Combatting the ‘Communistic-Mulatto Inspired Movement to Fuse the Two Ethnic Groups’: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Sickled Cells, and Segregationists’ Science in the Atomic Age Amy Wiese Forbes; Amanda Smithers
Focus on Modern Ayurveda
Rachel Berger, Ayuveda Made Modern: Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900–1955 Nandini Bhattacharya
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences Martha Ann Selby
Jonathan Taee, The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan Sienna R Craig
Book Reviews
Nahema Hanafi, Le frisson et le baume: Expériences féminines du corps au Siècle des lumières Mary McAlpin
Sasha Turner, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica Christopher D E Willoughby
Alice A. Kuzniar, The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism Marion Baschin
Rob Boddice, The Science of Sympathy. Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization Stephanie Eichberg
L. Kerr Dunn (ed), Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe James Whitehead
Hoi-eun Kim, Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan Aya Homei
Anne R. Hanley, Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916 Victoria Bates
Michael Sappol, Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration and the Homuncular Subject Fae Brauer
Fiona Reid, Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists Jessica L Adler
Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States Marion Girard Dorsey
Christy Ford Chapin, Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System B Rick Mayes
A. R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States Emily Contois
Stuart Blume, Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial Gareth Millward
Emily K. Abel, Living in Death’s Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss Caitlin Mahar
Iwan Rhys Morus (ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of Science Graeme Gooday