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
From ‘Vilest Beverage’ to ‘Universal Medicine’: Drinking Water in Printed Regimens and Health Guides, 1450–1750 David Gentilcore
Medical Marvels and Professional Medicine: Establishing Scientific Authority in Enlightenment France Angela C Haas
The Colic of Madrid (1788–1814): Experts, Poisons, Politics, and War at the End of the Ancien Régime in Spain José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
The Conservative Tradition in British Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 1900–1956 Christopher Lawrence
Bonds of Kinship and Care: RAMC Photographic Albums and the Making of ‘Other’ Domestic Lives Jason Bate
‘These Curly-Bearded, Olive-Skinned Warriors’: Medicine, Prosthetics, Rehabilitation and the Disabled Sepoy in the First World War, 1914–1920 Aparna Nair
Local Actions, National Policies and International Knowledge: Family Planning and Statistical Practices in Taiwan (1949–1980s) Yi-Tang Lin
Standardising Defence Lines: William Perrin Norris, Eugenics and Australian Border Control Jennifer S Kain
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy Matteo Manfredini; Marco Breschi; Alessio Fornasin ; Stanislao Mazzoni; Sergio De lasio ...
Curare: The Poisoned Arrow that Entered the Laboratory and Sparked a Moral Debate Shira Shmuely
‘These Are the Medicines That “Make” Monsters’: Thalidomide in Southern Africa, 1958–1962 Julie Parle; Ludger Wimmelbücker
Where is the Hoechst Insulin?: The Role of Diabetics and Their Doctors as Consumers During the German Democratic Republic’s Autarkic Policy of ‘Making Free From Disturbance’, 1961–1966 Kathrin A Hiepko
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908–1970 Shane Doyle; Felix Meier zu Selhausen; Jacob Weisdorf
‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s Peder Clark
Fighting an Epidemic in Political Context: Thirty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS Policy Making in the United States Tasleem J Padamsee
Book Reviews
Elaine Leong, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science and the Household in Early Modern England Nichola E Harris
Matthew James Crawford and Joseph M. Gabriel (eds), Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World Zachary Dorner
Mike Jay, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic Peder Clark
Christopher E. Forth, Fat. A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life Alexander Pyrges
Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism Kimberly Adams
Nicolas Rasmussen, Fat in the Fifties: America’s First Obesity Crisis David J Hutson
Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China Wayne Soon
Katherine Foxhall, Migraine: A History Lucas Richert
Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis (eds), Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services Shannon Stettner
Jill Kirby, Feeling the Strain: A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-century Britain Rob Boddice
Robert Bennett, Pill Dominique A Tobbell
Pierre Pfütsch (ed), Marketplace, Power, Prestige. The Healthcare Professions’ Struggle for Recognition (19th-20th Century) Alannah Tomkins
Ben Kasstan, Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction Among Haredi Jews in England Jillian M Hinderliter
Esyllt W. Jones, Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada Tracey L Adams
Jan Walmsley and Simon Jarrett (eds), Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice Michael Rembis
Corrigendum
Erratum