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.
Introduction
Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Introduction Louise Hide; Joanna Bourke
Original Articles
Broken Minds and Beaten Bodies: Cultures of Harm and the Management of Mental Illness in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-century English and Irish Prisons Catherine Cox ; Hilary Marland
Police Surgeons and Victims of Rape: Cultures of Harm and Care Joanna Bourke
In Plain Sight: Open Doors, Mixed-sex Wards and Sexual Abuse in English Psychiatric Hospitals, 1950s—Early 1990s Louise Hide
Single Rooms, Seclusion and the Non-Restraint Movement in British Asylums, 1838–1844 Leslie Topp
A Home or a Gaol? Scandal, Secrecy, and the St James’s Inebriate Home for Women Jennifer Wallis
‘Put Right Under’: Obstetric Violence in Post-war Canada Whitney Wood
Contracting Health: Procurement Contracts, Total Institutions, and the Problem of Virtuous Suffering in Post-war Human Experiment Laura Stark
Sources and Resources
Sources and ResourcesThe Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection Karen Rushton
Sources and Resources‘The People’s Chemists’: The Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive Anna Greenwood; Hilary Ingram
Essay Review
Slavery and the Production, Circulation and Practice of Medicine Sasha Turner
Book Reviews
C. Thumiger and P. N. Singer, Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina Jane Draycott
Kristine Kowalchuk, Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Receipt Books Rebecca Laroche
François Zanetti, L’Electricité médicale dans la France des Lumières Laurence Brockliss
Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan (eds), Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Janet Greenlees
Edward C. Atwater, Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary Mazie Hough
Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease Clark Lawlor
Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach and Karen Nolte (eds), Patients and Social Practice of Psychiatric Nursing in the 19th and 20th Century Pamela Dale
Laura Kelly, Irish Medical Education and Student Culture, 1850–1950 Anne Hanley
Andrew Bamji, Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery Jonathan Reinarz
Vivek Neelakantan, Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Lincoln C. Chen, Michael R. Reich and Jennifer Ryan (eds), Medical Education in East Asia: Past and Future Xiaoli Tian
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject Cornelius Borck
Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff, Breaking Ground. My Life in Medicine Adam Biggs
Paul David Blanc, Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon Catherine Mills
Larisa Jasarevic, Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt Mat Savelli