ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The Efficiency of Bacterial Vaccines on Mortality during the ‘Spanish’ Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 David T Roth pp.: 219–234
Urban Crisis and Epidemic Typhus in Madrid at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Santiago de Miguel Salanova pp.: 235–262
Doctors and Parents in Children’s Wards: Tel-Hashomer Hospital’s Unrestricted Visitations in 1950s’ Israel Ella Ayalon and Nurit Kirsh pp.: 263–283
Caring Under Fire Across Three Continents: The Hadfield-Spears Ambulance, 1941–1945 Laure Humbert pp.: 284–315
‘The Unseen Enemy Persists’: Delusion, Trauma and the South African War in Australian Asylum Case Notes Effie Karageorgos pp.: 316–336
The Republic of Fear: Mental Illness in the Finnish Civil War of 1918 Petteri Pietikainen pp.: 337–358
Negotiating Shanghai Mercy Hospital: Philanthropy, Business and Control of Madness in Republican China Jinping Ma pp.: 359–385
Representations of Western Opium Consumption in China: Informal Empire, Medicine and Modernity, 1840–1930 L J V Sweeney pp.: 386–408
Opium was of central importance to the expansion of western informal empire in China, and became a cipher for contested questions of moral authority, racial hierarchy, scientific knowledge, civilisation and modernity. Westerners involved in the opium trade were imbued with an ethos of ‘distancing’ from Chinese culture and lifestyles, including the smoking of opium, and it has been assumed that westerners largely adhered to these boundaries. However, a small minority of westerners did smoke opium in China, notably medical professionals and other elites. The nature of, and response to, these transgressions is highly revealing of the era’s shifting conceptions of racial hierarchy, medical science, religious morality and ultimately the advent of modernity.
BOOK REVIEWS
Ruth J. Salter, Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England Claire Carrothers pp.: 409–410
Nicole Archambeau, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence Claire Weeda pp.: 410–411
Ronald S. Coddington. Faces of Civil War Nurses Jane E Schultz pp.: 412–414
Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 Anna Greenwood pp.: 414–415
McGrath, Larry Sommer, Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France John Warne Monroe pp.: 415–417
Samuël Coghe, Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola Cristiana Bastos pp.: 417–418
Alexandre Sumpf, The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921 Michael Robinson pp.: 418–419
Ericka Dyck and Maureen Lux, Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s Christabelle Sethna pp.: 419–421
Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother Emer Lucey pp.: 421–422
Peter Barham, Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society Vicky Long pp.: 422–424
Allan V. Horwitz, DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible Jason Schnittker pp.: 424–425
Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffey, Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Aimi Hamraie pp.: 425–427
Judith Farquhar, A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine Howard Chiang pp.: 427–429
Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives Ylva Söderfeldt pp.: 429–430
Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree and Fay Bound Alberti (Eds), Germs and Governance: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control Scott H Podolsky pp.: 430–432