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
Roy Porter Student Prize Essay How (Not) to Survive a Plague: The Theology of Fleeing Disease in Sixteenth-century England Spencer J Weinreich
‘One Stroak of His Razour’: Tales of Self-Gelding in Early Modern England Alanna Skuse
Midwifery and Maternity Care for Single Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Wales Angela Joy Muir
The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland Lynsey Black
‘A Little Time Woud Compleat the Cure’: Broken Bones and Fracture Experiences of the Working Poor in London’s General Hospitals During the Long Eighteenth Century Madeleine Mant
Mapmaking and Mapthinking: Cancer as a Problem of Place in Nineteenth-century England Agnes Arnold-Forster
A Plague of Kinyounism: The Caricatures of Bacteriology in 1900 San Francisco Lukas Engelmann
‘The Only Trouble is the Dam’ Heroin’: Addiction, Treatment and Punishment at the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm Holly M Karibo
‘The Natural Foundation of Perfect Efficiency’: Medical Services and the Victorian Post Office Kathleen McIlvenna; Douglas H L Brown; David R Green
Addressing Ill Health: Sickness and Retirement in the Victorian Post Office David R Green; Douglas H L Brown; Kathleen McIlvenna
Quinine, Whisky, and Epsom Salts: Amateur Medical Treatment in the White Settler Communities of British East and South-Central Africa, 1890–1939 Julia M Wells
H1N1 in the ‘A1 Empire’: Pandemic Influenza, Military Medicine, and the British Transition from War to Peace, 1918–1920 James J Harris
MIND, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Case of the Mental Hygiene Movement’s ‘Discursive Transformation’ Jonathan Toms
Sources and Resources
Challenges and Opportunities in Documenting the Recent History of Public Health: The Health of Bristol after 1948 David Evans
Book Reviews
Allan V. Horwitz, PTSD, A Short History Allan Young
Wendy Mitchinson, Fighting Fat, Canada 1920–1980 Catherine Carstairs
Mirko D. Grmek, Pierre-Olivier Méthot (trans) (ed.), Pathological Realities. Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History Keir Waddington
Carolin Schmitz, Los enfermos en la España barroca y el pluralismo médico. Espacios, estrategias y actitudes Cristian Berco
Constantin Barbulescu, Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine. Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860–1910 Maria Bucur
Rebecca Lemon, Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England Mary Ann Lund
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Intimate Communities, Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 Mirela David
Sally Frampton, Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy Claire Brock
María Jesús Santesmases, The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain. Health, Wealth and Authority Dmitriy Myelnikov
Deborah Blythe Doroshow, Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children Steven Noll
Marius Turda (ed), Religion, Evolution and Heredity, Special Issue of The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture Alexander Hall
Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History Jonathan Reinarz
James Dunk, Bedlam at Botany Bay Philippa Martyr
Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee, The World Health Organization: A History, Global Health Histories Martin Gorsky
James E. Moran, Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Leonard Smith
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