Archiv für Juli 2012

Catriona Foley, The Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland 1918–19

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/729?rss=1

Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/741?rss=1

The Global Menace

The history of medicine has gone ‘global.’ Why? Can the proliferation of the ‘global’ in our writing be explained away as a product of staying true to our historical subjects‘ categories? Or has this historiography in fact deli…

Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/749?rss=1

Working Together? Medical Professionals, Gay Community Organisations and the Response to HIV/AIDS in Australia, 1983-1985

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gay men, community organisations and the medical profession between 1983 and 1985 in Australia, a period when the key features of that nation’s HIV/AIDS public health policy were d…

James E. Shaw and Evelyn S. Welch, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/755?rss=1

In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland

This essay examines the attempts by the Medical Women’s Federation, founded in 1917, to challenge a medical narrative of menopausal malaise. A survey begun in 1926 of 1,000 women’s menopausal experience concluded that, contrary to dominant paradigms o…

Anna Henkel, Soziologie des Pharmazeutischen

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/743?rss=1

Michael Brown, Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c.1760-1850

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/759?rss=1

Duncan Wilson, Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/757?rss=1