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
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain Cristian Berco Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 225–244
From Women's Expectations to Scientific Specimens: The Fate of Miscarriage Materials in Nineteenth-Century America Shannon K Withycombe Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 245–262
‘A Burden on the County’: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 263–287
Fashioning a Role for Medicine: Alexandre-Louis-Paul Blanchet and the Care of the Deaf in Mid-nineteenth-century France Sabine Arnaud Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 288–307
Class, Health and the Proposed British Anthropometric Survey of 1904 Elise Juzda Smith Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 308–329
Black Celebrities, Selfhood, and Psychiatry in the Civil Rights Era: The Wiltwyck School for Boys and the Floyd Patterson House Dennis A. Doyle Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 330–350
The Image of the Self-Sacrificing Doctor: Medicine, Taxes and Unemployment in 1930s Turkey Sanem Güvenç-Salgirli Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 351–368
Translating Smoke Signals: West German Medicine and Tobacco Research, 1950–1970 Donna Harsch Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 369–391
Focus on Learning from Pain
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers Rob Boddice Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 392–393
Rob Boddice (ed.), Pain and Emotion in Modern History Daniel Goldberg Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 393–395
George Weisz, Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History Alex Mold Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 395–396
Shauna Devine Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science Jane E. Schultz Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 396–398
Keith Wailoo, Pain: A Political History Noémi Tousignant Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 398–399
Book Reviews
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen (eds), Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe Wendy Turner Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 400–401
Richard Sugg, The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England Guido Giglioni Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 401–402
Liberty Walther Barnes Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity Antje Kampf Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 402–404
Leslie Rosenthal, The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England. Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency Anne Hardy Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 404–405
Ian Miller Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science and Improvement, 1845–1922 Virginia Crossman Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 405–406
Matthew Warner Osborn, Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic David Fahey Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 406–407
Michael Osborne, The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France Myriam Mertens Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 407–409
Mathew Thomson, Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-war Settlement Deborah Thom Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 409–410
Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America Mical Raz Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 410–412
Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice Marika Seigel Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 412–413
Susan Benedict and Linda Shields (eds), Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The “Euthanasia Programs” Anne-Kathleen Tillack-Graf Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 413–415
Nicholas Rasmussen Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise Sally Smith Hughes Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 415–416
Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease Luc Berlivet Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 416–418
David S. Jones Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care Carsten Timmermann Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 418–419
Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds), Picturing Women's Health (Warwick Series in the Humanities) Carol-Ann Farkas Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 420–421
John S. Haller Jr., Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies Jane M. Adams Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 421–423
Mark Jackson, The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide Keir Waddington Soc Hist Med 2015 28: 423–424