Patricia Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/758?rss=1
Archiv für Juli 2012
C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and ‚Intellectual Disability‘: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/739?rss=1
Annette Hilt, Isabella Jordan and Andreas Frewer (eds), Endlichkeit, Medizin und Unsterblichkeit. Geschichte–Theorie–Ethik
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/737?rss=1
Imperial Networks, Colonial Bioprospecting and Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: The Case of Strophanthus Kombe from Malawi (1859-1915)
Recent research has begun to highlight the complex connections between colonialism, medical and scientific knowledge-production, and commercial interests. This article analyses colonial ‘bioprospecting’ through a case study of Strophanthus…
Colonial Medical Encounters in the Nineteenth Century: The French Campaigns in Egypt, Saint Domingue and Algeria
This article will address the shortcomings of western medicine when faced with diseases of warm or ‘tropical’ countries broadly conceived, the influence of non-European medicine on French medicine and the borrowing from non-European remedi…
Diseases of the Eye: Medical Pluralism at the Tanjore Court in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Tanjore Court in South India under the reign of Raja Serfoji II (1798–1832) offers a rich and hitherto unexamined case for the study of medical pluralism beyond the colonial establishment. ‘Western medicine’ was negotiated and ac…
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and the Adivasis of Western India
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was the single worst outbreak of this disease known in history. This article examines an area of western India that was affected very badly—that of a tract inhabited by impoverished indigenous peoples, who are know…
We Demand ‚Unconditional Surrender‘: Making and Unmaking the Blackfoot Hospital, 1890s to 1950s
The Siksika (Blackfoot) in southern Alberta, along with other western Canadian Aboriginals in the post-Treaty (1870s) period, bore the brunt of the destruction of the bison economy and the nascent state’s colonial policies intended to marginalise them…
Trypanosomes, Toxicity and Resistance: The Politics of Mass Therapy in French Colonial Africa
Drug toxicity and resistance were prominent topics in the annual reports of the Service Autonome General de la Maladie du Sommeil (SAGMS), the sleeping sickness service that operated in French West Africa (AOF) from 1939 to 1944. This article closely …
Elizabeth White, The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1917-39
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/3/550?rss=1