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.
Articles
Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton and James W. Spisak (eds), Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond Nancy D Campbell
Tracey L. Adams, Regulating Professions: The Emergence of Professional Self-Regulation in Four Canadian Provinces Dan Malleck
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 Pratik Chakrabarti
Claire Trenery, Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England Stephen Gordon
Michelle L. McClellan, Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America Stephen E Mawdsley
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis Hyung Wook Park
David Alan Johnson, Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania Lynn E Miller
Blood Work: Menstrual Cycle Scholarship Comes of Age Camilla Mørk Røstvik
Patrick Manning and Mat Savelli (eds), Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin and Angela Willey (eds), Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader Sharra L Vostral
Douglas M. Haynes, Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980 Stephanie J Snow
Clotilde Cicatiello, Rivalità sulla Scena del Parto: Medici e Levatrici a Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento Jennifer F Kosmin
Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China Hilary A Smith
Mari Armstrong-Hough, Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan Martin D Moore
Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse and Hamish G. Spencer (eds), Eugenics at the Edges of Empire. New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa Philippa Levine
Peter John Brownlee, The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Julia Skelly
What Do Babies Need to Thrive? Changing Interpretations of ‘Hospitalism’ in an International Context, 1900–1945 Katharina Rowold
Between Foreign Politics and Humanitarian Neutrality: Medical Emergency Aid by the Two German States before 1970 Walter Bruchhausen
‘Treatment Not Trident’: Medical Activism, Health Inequality and Anti-Militarism in 1980s Britain Christoph Laucht
The Experimental Conception Hospital: Dating Pregnancy and the Gothic Imagination border= Isabel Davis
‘Pottes of Tryacle’ and ‘Bokes of Phisyke’: The Fifteenth-century Disease Management Practices of Three Gentry Families Hannah Ingram
Jewish Physicians in Late Medieval Ashkenaz Tamás Visi
Virtuous and Wise: Apprehending Female Medical Practice from Hebrew Texts on Women’s Healthcare Carmen Caballero-Navas
Ask the Midwives: A Hebrew Manual on Midwifery from Medieval Germany Elisheva Baumgarten
Late Medieval Jewish Physicians and their Manuscripts Maud Kozodoy
Special Cluster Learning Practice from Texts: Jews and Medicine in the Later Middle Ages Naama Cohen-Hanegbi