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.
Table of Contents
Original Articles
Drugs, Deceit and Damage in Thirteenth-century Herefordshire: New Perspectives on Medieval Surgery, Sex and the Law Gwen Seabourne
'I am not very well I feel nearly mad when I think of you': Male Jealousy, Murder and Broadmoor in Late-Victorian Britain Jade Shepherd
A Trauma Doctor's Practice in Nineteenth-century China: The Medical Cases of Hu Tingguang Yi-Li Wu
Shock Troupe: Medical Film and the Performance of 'Shell Shock' for the British Nation at War Julie M. Powell
Lives, Laboratories, and the Translations of War: British Medical Scientists, 1914 and Beyond Anne Hardy
'If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?' The Medico-legal Investigation of Gunshot Wounds in a 1927 Scottish Murder Trial Nicholas Duvall
Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Men's Presence at Childbirth in Britain c. 1940s–2000s Laura King
'A Change of Heart': Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press Maya Overby Koretzky
A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government's Response to the Pertussis Vaccine Scare Gareth Millward
Essay Review
Redemptive Ancestries: Human Population Genetics, Sex and Antiracism Sebastián Gil-Riaño
Book Reviews
Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens (eds), Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome Michael Yudell
Jennifer S. Singh, Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Matthew Smith
Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy David Lederer
Alisha Rankin, Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany Katherine Allen
Carin Berkowitz, Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform James Bradley
Victoria Bates, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts Seth Stein LeJacq
David Scrimgeour, Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There Stef Eastoe
Barbara Mann Wall, Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change Shobana Shankar
Srirupa Prasad, Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940: Contagions of Feeling Saurabh Mishra
Gabriel M. Mendes, Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry Ellen Dwyer
Patrizia Guarnieri, Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration Under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York Simone Turchetti
Florian C. Mildenberger, Der Deutsche Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärtze im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme, Kritik, Interpretation Michael G. Kenny
Nancy Tomes, Remaking the Modern Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers Alex Mold
Chris Millard, A History of Self-Harm in Britain: A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing Leigh Dale
Corinna Wagner and Andy Brown (eds), A Body of Work. An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine Clark Lawlor
Jan Plamper, Keith Tribe (trans), The History of Emotions: An Introduction Grace Moore
Erwin H. Ackerknecht, A Short History of Medicine. Keir Waddington
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