Chiara Beccalossi, Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c.1870-1920
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/2/325?rss=1
Archiv für April 2013
The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)
Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This article h…
Christopher Pittard, Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/2/320?rss=1
Refuse and the ‚Risk Society‘: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-war Britain
This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck’s ‘risk society’ thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck…
Gerold Sedlmayr, The Discourse of Madness in Britain, 1790-1815: Medicine, Politics, Literature
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/2/334?rss=1
‚A Prostitution of the Profession‘? Forcible Feeding, Prison Doctors, Suffrage and the British State, 1909-1914
Historians have castigated the British medical profession for endorsing forcible feeding during the suffragette hunger strike campaigns of 1909 to 1914. This article reconsiders the importance of medical opposition to forcible feeding by closely analy…
Angus McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/2/323?rss=1
Accessing Empire: Irish Surgeons and the Royal Navy, 1840-1880
This article considers the role played by Irish and Catholic surgeons in the Royal Navy during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ireland’s significant links with imperial medicine has thrown up important questions about the extent to wh…
Joe Sornberger, Dreams and Due Diligence: Till and McCulloch’s Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/2/328?rss=1
Sex, Public Health and Colonial Control: The Campaign Against Venereal Diseases in Germany’s Overseas Possessions, 1884-1914
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, venereal diseases were seen not only as a problem in Germany, but also in its colonial empire. In Germany, doctors believed that through their scientific training and education they could be successful in …