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.
Editorial
Foreword by Rosemary Cresswell, Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine Rosemary Cresswell
Second Opinion
Why Do We Do What We Do? The Values of the Social History of Medicine Richard A McKay
Original Articles
‘The mothers of England object’: Public Health, Privacy and Professional Ethics in the Early Twentieth-century Debate over the Notification of Pregnancy Salim Al-Gailani
Beyond Professional Self-interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858–1914 Andreas-Holger Maehle
Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921 Anna Greenwood; Harshad Topiwala
Medicine in Theresienstadt Anna Hájková
‘An Underworld in Education’: The Demise of Missouri’s Medical Diploma Mills David Alan Johnson
Cold War Crises: Foreign Medical Graduates Respond to US Doctor Shortages, 1965–1975 Eram Alam
‘Challenging Incommunicability: Tool Use amongst Women Medical Practitioners in Britain, 1860–1914’ Tom Quick
The Origins and Prevalence of and Campaigns to Eradicate Venereal Diseases in British Colonial Cyprus, 1916–1939 Andrekos Varnava
Challenging New Zealand’s Icon, Sir Frederic Truby King Linda Bryder
A Medical Challenge: The Alcohol Disease in Sweden 1946–1955 Johan Edman
AIDS Inside and Out: HIV/AIDS and Penal Policy in Ireland and England & Wales in the 1980s and 1990s Janet Weston ; Virginia Berridge
Birth Control Pill Trials in Sri Lanka: The History and Politics of Women’s Reproductive Health (1950–1980) Darshi Thoradeniya
Physiology and Hygiene in the History of Nutrition Science: The Norwegian Case 1870–1970 Kari Tove Elvbakken
On the Roadside: Maria Kunz and the Practice of Itinerant Missionary Doctoring in Rural South Africa, 1930s to 1970s Vanessa Noble
Book Reviews
John Cunningham (ed), Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine: Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts James Kelly
Peregrine Horden, Cultures of Healing: Medieval and After Faith Wallis
Philip Rieder and François Zanetti (eds), Materia medica: Savoirs et usages des médicaments aux époques médiévales et modernes Angela Haas
Tricia Starks, Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia Donna Harsch
Joris Vandendriessche, Medical Societies and Scientific Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium Rita M J Schepers
Jennifer Wallis, Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices Dolly MacKinnon
Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Anne Crowther
Howard Chiang, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China Sandy F Chang
Howard Phillips, In a Time of Plague: Memories of the ‘Spanish’ Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa George Dehner
Gareth Millward, Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War Michael Dwyer
Dóra Vargha, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic Stephen E Mawdsley
Martin D. Moore, Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine. Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-war Britain Arleen Marcia Tuchman
Mirko D. Grmek, Pierre-Olivier Méthot (trans & ed), Pathological Realities. Essays on Disease, Experiments and History Keir Waddington
Richard J. Altenbaugh, Vaccination in America: Medical Science and Children’s Welfare Lynne Curry
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