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 Economics of Sick Calves: The Use of Calves for Smallpox Vaccine Lymph Production in Britain and its Empire, 1870s–1900s Kristin Brig-Ortiz
Affective Economies in Blood Banks and Biobanks: Vital Accounting from US Transfusion Medicine to Genetic Research, 1935–1990 Kathryne Metcalf
Poison by Advertisement: Cosmetics and the Art of Selling Whiteness c.1880–1920 Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
‘The Waste of Daylight’: Rhythmicity, Workers’ Health and Britain’s Edwardian Daylight Saving Time Bills Kristin D Hussey
Composing Well-being: Mental Health and the Mass Observation Project in Twentieth-Century Britain Andrew Burchell, Mathew Thomson
‘To Cause Sleepe Safe and Shure’: Dangerous Substances, Sleep Medicine and Poison Theories in Early Modern England Elizabeth K Hunter
Industrial Elites, Philanthrocapitalism and the Institutionalisation of Visiting Nursing in Interwar Luxembourg Klaus Dittrich
‘Deliver This Horse from Evil’: The Ritual Aspects of Responses to Veterinary Disease in the Late Middle Ages Sunny Harrison
The ‘Guinea Pigs’ of Tristan da Cunha and the Ethics of Medical Research in Britain and the Empire, 1961–1973 Christopher L Maternowski
Diagnosing Rickets in Early Modern England: Statistical Evidence and Social Response Gill Newton
Chiefs and Rural Health Services in South-Western Nigeria, c. 1920—c. 1950s Adedamola Adetiba, Enocent Msindo
Creating an Applied, Multi-disciplinary Research Field: The World Health Organization and Health Systems Research 1960–2000 George Weisz
Wilful Blindness: Sleeping Sickness and Onchocerciasis in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1909–1957 David Bannister
From Abandonment to Hospitalisation: Evolution of Hospital Care in Rural Spain (1939–1975) Josep Barceló Prats, Daniel Lanero Táboas
Book Reviews
Maja Bondestam (ed.) Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture: Concepts of Monstrosity before the Advent of the Normal D Christopher Gabbard
John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy Joanne M Ferraro
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters 1500–1850 Pablo F Gómez
Rocio Gomez, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946 Cassia Roth
Simon Harold Walker, Physical Control, Transformation and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies Michael Robinson
Kylie Smith, Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing Geertje Boschma
George Ikkos and Nick Bouras (eds), Mind, State and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain, 1960-2010 Rebecca Watterson
Charles Allen McCoy, Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States Lukas Engelmann
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory Maurizio Esposito
Jarrett, Simon, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day Michael Rembis
Allan V. Horwitz, Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era Petteri Pietikainen
M.R. Raghava Varier, A Brief History of Āyurveda Vitus Angermeier