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.
Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Introduction: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Daphna Oren-Magidor and Catherine Rider Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 211–223
Anne of Bohemia and Her Struggle to Conceive Kristen L. Geaman Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 224–244
Men and Infertility in Late Medieval English Medicine Catherine Rider Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 245–266
‘In the Merry Month of May’: Instructions for Ensuring Fertility in MS British Library, Lansdowne 380 Theresa L. Tyers Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 267–289
Literate Laywomen, Male Medical Practitioners and the Treatment of Fertility Problems in Early Modern England Daphna Oren-Magidor Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 290–310
‘They are called Imperfect men’: Male Infertility and Sexual Health in Early Modern England Jennifer Evans Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 311–332
‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England Sarah Toulalan Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 333–359
Original Articles
Malaria and Colonialism in Korea, c.1876–c.1945 Jeong-Ran Kim Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 360–383
Harnessing the Power of Difference: Colonialism and British Chronic Disease Research, 1940–1975 Martin D. Moore Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 384–404
Focus on Managing Mental Disorder
Leonard Smith, Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean 1838–1914 Pedro L. V. Welch Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 405–406
Louise Hide, Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914 Catharine Coleborne Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 406–407
Howard Chiang (ed.), Psychiatry and Chinese History (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine) Lijing Jiang Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 408–409
Laure Murat, The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness Aude Fauvel Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 409–411
Claudia Malacrida, A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta’s Eugenic Years Katrina N. Jirik Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 411–412
Book Reviews
Maria Pia Donato, Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome. Alessandro Laverda Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 412–414
Fabrice Brandli and Michel Porret (eds), Les Corps Meurtris: investigations judiciares et expertises médico-légales au XVIIIe siècle Cathy McClive Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 414–415
Saurabh Mishra, Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India Julie E. Hughes Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 415–417
Kim Price, Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain: The Crisis of Care under English Poor Law, c. 1834–1900 Alistair Ritch Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 417–418
D.S. Lucey and Virginia Crossman (eds), Health Care in Ireland and Britain from 1850: voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives Greta Jones Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 418–420
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz, The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform Anne Hanley Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 420–422
Anne Hardy, Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880–1975 James Hanley Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 422–423
Nikolai Krementsov, Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction Lloyd Ackert Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 423–425
Paul Weindling, Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust Michael H. Kater Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 425–426
Andreas Mayer, Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting Rhodri Hayward Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 426–428
W. Bruce Fye, Caring for the Heart: the Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization Joel D. Howell Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 428–429
Edward Shorter, Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals J. T. H. Connor Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 429–431
Samia Salem, Die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der Gentechnik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahren Bernd Gausemeier Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 431–432
Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective Sarah Walsh Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 432–434
Alexander Mercer, Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition. A New Perspective Simon Szreter Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 434–436
Neil Carter, Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective John Hoberman Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 436–437
Werner Trotsken, The Pox of Liberty. How the Constitution left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection. Jeanne Abrams Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 437–438
Elena Conis, Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization Lucas Richert Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 439–440
Julie Laplante, Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 440–441
Errata
Erratum Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 442
Erratum Soc Hist Med 2016 29: 443