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
A Sixteenth-century Physician and His Patients: The Practice Journal of Hiob Finzel, 1565–1589 Michael StolbergPages 221–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx063
Roy Porter Student Prize Essay Figuring Pictures and Picturing Figures: Images of the Pregnant Body and the Unborn Child in England, 1540–c.1680 Rebecca WhiteleyPages 241–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx082
Reading Plague in Seventeenth-century London Vanessa HardingPages 267–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx093
The Pugs and the Elephant: Dr Botkin and the Professional and National Identity of Physicians in the Russian Court Elina SopoPages 287–309, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx061
Industrial Fatigue and the Productive Body: the Science of Work in Britain, c. 1900–1918 Steffan BlayneyPages 310–328, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx077
‘Long Live the Bottle’: The Rise of the French Bottle-feeding Industry in the Nineteenth Century Gal VenturaPages 329–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx060
Truby King’s Women: Four Australian Case Studies Philippa Mein SmithPages 357–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx083
Behind Asylum Walls: Studying the Dialectic Between Psychiatrists and Patients at Montreal’s Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital during the first half of the Twentieth Century Isabelle Perreault; Marie-Claude ThifaultPages 377–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx096
A Chemical Revolution as Seen from below: The ‘Discovery’ of Neuroleptics in 1950s Paris Benoît MajerusPages 395–413, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx113
Book Reviews
Alison Klairmont Lingo (ed), Stephanie O’Hara (trans), Louise Bourgeois: Midwife to the Queen of France: Diverse Observations Timothy D WalkerPages 414–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky094
Steven King, Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750–1834 Samantha WilliamsPages 415–417, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky111
Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England Christopher TilmouthPages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz006
John Chircop and Francisco Javier-Martinez (eds), Mediterranean Quarantines, 1750–1914. Space, identity and power Alex Chase-LevensonPages 418–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz012
Hans Pols, Nurturing Indonesia. Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies Leo van BergenPages 420–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz014
Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Practicante: El Nacimiento de una Nueva Profesión Sanitaria en España Agata IgnaciukPages 421–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz009
Liping Bu, Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015 Mary Augusta BrazeltonPages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz022
Leslie Topp, Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 Sarah MarksPages 424–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz010
Tania Woloshyn, Soaking up the Rays Fabiola CreedPages 426–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz005
Ida Milne, Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19 Niall JohnsonPages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz003
Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama (eds), Gender, Health and History in Modern East Asia Ka-Che YipPages 429–431, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky117
Katerina Gardikas, Landscapes of Disease. Malaria in Modern Greece Vassiliki TheodorouPages 431–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz008
Henry Berman and Hannah Dashefsky, Teens and Their Doctors: The Story of the Development of Adolescent Medicine Andrew BurchellPages 433–434, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz021
Shelley McKellar, Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology Lesley A SharpPages 434–436, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz004
Richard A. McKay, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Victoria A HardenPages 436–437, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky088
Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A Critical Genealogy Efram Sera-ShriarPages 438–439, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz015