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.
Foreword
The Society and its Journal: Note of Thanks and Welcome
Original Articles
The Science of Pleasure: Medicine and Sex Therapy in Mid-twentieth-century Australia Lisa Featherstone
Aboriginal People in Western Australian Mental Hospitals, 1903–1966 Philippa Martyr; Sophie Davison
Revisiting Post-war British Medical Migration: A Case Study of Bristol Medical Graduates in Australia Fallon Mody
Cat and Mouse: Animal Technologies, Trans-imperial Networks and Public Health from Below, British India, c. 1907–1918 Projit Bihari Mukharji
The Products of Experiment: Changing Conceptions of Difference in the History of Tuberculosis in East Africa, 1920s–1970s Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Lads and Ladies, Contenders on the Ward—How Trained Nurses became Primary Caregivers to Soldiers during the Second Anglo-Boer War Caroline Adams
Personalities, Preferences and Practicalities: Educating Nurses in Wound Sepsis in the British Hospital, 1870–1920 Claire L Jones; Marguerite Dupree; Iain Hutchison; Susan Gardiner; Anne Marie Rafferty
Science on the Niger: Ventilation and Tropical Disease during the 1841 Niger Expedition Edward J Gillin
Mikomeseng: Leprosy, Legitimacy and Francoist Repression in Spanish Guinea David Brydan
Book Reviews
Pablo F. Gómez, Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic Paul F Ramírez
Laurinda Abreu, The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal Kristy Wilson Bowers
Lucia Dacome, Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy Paolo Savoia
Stephen Snelders, Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname under Dutch Rule, 1750–1950 Kristen Block
Stuart Wildman, ‘He’s only a pauper whom nobody owns’: Caring for the Sick in the Warwickshire Poor Law Unions 1834–1914 Kim Price
Peter Hobbins, Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia Rahul Bhaumik
Marion Baschin, Ärztliche Praxis im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts: Der Homöopath Dr Friedrich Paul von Bönninghausen (1828–1910) Michael G Kenny
Richard C. Parks, Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis Jessica Lynne Pearson
Bernhard Ortmann, Die Hildesheimer Blindenmission in Hongkong. Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder in Werk und Wahrnehmung einer Frauenmission, ca. 1890–1997 Albert Wu
Ana Antić, Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order in Yugoslavia Sarah Marks
Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer (eds), Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II Golfo Alexopoulos
Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson (eds), Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Dennis A Doyle
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Miranda Waggoner, The Zero Trimester: pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk Shannon Withycombe
Hans Pols, Claudia Michele Thompson and John Harley Warner (eds), Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia Wayne Soon
Rob Boddice, Pain: A Very Short Introduction Leticia Fernández-Fontecha
Howard I. Kushner, On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History Pamela Dale
Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis, A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature Janet Weston
Alison Bashford (ed), Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Lucia Dacome
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