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
‘Quick to say Quack’. Medicinal Secrets from the Household to the Apothecary’s Shop in Eighteenth-century Venice Sabrina Minuzzi
Managing Uncertainty and Privatising Apprenticeship: Status and Relationships in English Medicine, 1500–1900 Margaret Pelling
‘The Grand Organ of Sympathy’: ‘Fashionable’ Stomach Complaints and the Mind in Britain, 1700–1850 James Kennaway; Jonathan Andrews
‘We Yet Survive’: Physician Patient Relationships and the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853 Lindsay Rae Privette
Reinvented Places: ‘Tradition’, ‘Family Care’ and Psychiatric Institutions in Japan Susan L Burns
The Medical Debate about Prostitution and Venereal Diseases in Yugoslavia (1918–1941) Stefano Petrungaro
Combating Canine ‘Visiting Cards’: Public Hygiene and the Management of Dog Mess in Paris since the 1920s Chris Pearson
Cosmetic Surgery on Trial: How the Dujarier Case Impacted its Practice and Structure in France during the Interwar Period Yannick Le Hénaff
Book Reviews
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey (eds), Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies and environments in Italy and England Jennifer Evans
Soyoung Suh, Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century Sixiang Wang
Sari Altschuler, The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States Lisa Kerr Dunn
Rana Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 Stephen C Kenny
Alannah Tomkins, Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780–1890 Alison Moulds
Markku Hokkanen, Medicine, Mobility and the Empire: Nyasaland Networks, 1859–1960 Tiffany F Jones
Janet E. Croon (ed.), The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham Susan-Mary Grant
Alastair Robson, Unrecognised by the World at Large: A Biography of Dr Henry Parse MD, Physician to the Hatton Asylum, Warwick Leonard Smith
Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble, The People’s Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s Barbra Mann Wall
María Isabel Porras Gallo, María José Báguena Cervellera, Mariano Ayarzagüena Sanz, and Noelia Maria Martín Espinosa (eds), La erradicación y el control de las enfermedades infecciosas Josep L Barona
Paul U. Unschuld and Bridie J. Andrews (trans), Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation Melissa S Dale
Susan Bartlett Foote, The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946–1954 Kathleen M Brian
Isabel M. Córdova, Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth Linda C Magaña
Michael Dwyer, Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland Oisín Wall
Julian M. Simpson, Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian Doctors and the Reinvention of British General Practice (1940s–1980s) David Wright
Ann Shaw, Searching for Sully—Our Stories Karen Rushton
Robert A. Wilson, The Eugenic Mind Project Erica Dyck
Alan Whiteside, HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction Hannah J Elizabeth
Rob Boddice, The History of Emotions Jennifer Crane
Corrigendum