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 Records of the Common Law as a source for the Medieval Medical History of England Hannes Kleineke
Being Well, Looking Ill: Childbirth and the Return to Health in Seventeenth-century Englandborder Leah Astbury
Occupational Exposure to Heavy Metals Poisoning: Scottish Lead Mining Catherine Mills ; W. Paul Adderley
John Wickham's New Surgery: 'Minimally Invasive Therapy', Innovation, and Approaches to Medical Practice in Twentieth-century Britainborder Sally Frampton; Roger L. Kneebone
Concepts, Diagnosis and the History of Medicine: Historicising Ian Hacking and Munchausen Syndromeborder Chris Millard
'I should have thought that Wales was a wet part of the world': Drought, Rural Communities and Public Health, 1870–1914border Keir Waddington
'Everybody Likes a Drink. Nobody Likes a Drunk'. Alcohol, Health Education and the Public in 1970s Britainborder Alex Mold
Socialising the Anti-Social: Psychopathy, Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968 Katariina Parhi ; Petteri Pietikainen
Abortion Crime Scene Photography in Metropolitan London 1950–1968 Amy Helen Bell
Focus on Indigenous and Colonial medicine in the Americas
Mathew James Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug. Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800 Toine Pieters
Martha Few, For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala Sophie Brockmann
Okezi T. Otovo, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies. Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil (1850–1945) Gisele Sanglard
Fannie Kahan, Erika Dyck (ed), A Culture's Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada Nancy D. Campbell
Maureen K. Lux, Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s–1980s Whitney Wood
Book Reviews
Christian Berco, From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain Allyson M. Poska
Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Michael Whitfield, The Dispensaries: Healthcare for the Poor Before the NHS Jonathan Reinarz
Guenter B. Risse, Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence Lukas Engelmann
Tom Crook, Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910 Barry M. Doyle
Donnacha Seán Lucey, The End of the Irish Poor Law? Welfare and Healthcare Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland Laurence Geary
Hyung Wook Park, Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–1960 Cara Kiernan Fallon
Alison Adam, A History of Forensic Science: British Beginnings in the Twentieth Century Nicholas Duvall
Jameel Hampton, Disability and the Welfare State in Britain: Changes in Perception and Policy 1948–79 Andy Holroyde
Laurence Monnais and David Wright (eds), Doctors Beyond Borders: The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century Eram Alam
Aref Abu-Rabia, Indigenous Medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East Adam Guerin
Lisa Marie Griffith and Ciarán Wallace (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1500 to the Present Ciara Breathnach
Susan E. Cayleff, Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America Mike Saks
Stephen T. Casper, The Neurologists: A History of Medical Specialty in Modern Britain, c. 1789–2000 Rachel Elder
Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History Natasha Feiner
David Scrimgeour, Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There Stef Eastoe