The absence of a ‘bacteriological revolution’ in venereal disease (VD) diagnosis in late nineteenth-century Britain has most commonly been demonstrated through medical texts and hospital practice. The following article contributes a broade…
While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction …
This interdisciplinary article explores the early history of heliotherapy (natural sunlight therapy) on the Côte d’Azur through its visual culture. It concentrates on images, and the texts within which they appear, of children undergoing helioth…
One of the first American epidemiological studies of cardiovascular disease, the Framingham Heart Study, is considered to have played a central role in identifying the major risk factors for heart disease and in introducing and diffusing a risk factor…
This article explores the competing constructions of shell shock in New Zealand during and after the Great War. It begins by considering the army’s construction of shell shock as a discipline problem, before going on to consider the medical profession…
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/132?rss=1
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/134?rss=1
Little is known, historically, about the perceived and actual importance of disease prevention within general medical and veterinary practice, its constituent attitudes, practices and politics, and its relationship to disease cure. This paper addresse…
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/137?rss=1
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/138?rss=1
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