Archiv für Juli 2013

Wendy D. Churchill, Female Patients in Early Modern Britain: Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/606?rss=1

Angela Davis, Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, 1945-2000

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/608?rss=1

Beyond the Medical Text: Health and Illness in Early Medieval Italian Sources

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/610?rss=1

The ‚Miracle of Childbirth‘: the Portrayal of Parturient Women in Medieval Miracle Narratives

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/610-a?rss=1

Hans Derks, History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/584?rss=1

Robert G. W. Anderson and Jean Jones (eds), The Correspondence of Joseph Black

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/3/583?rss=1

Circulation of Medicine in the Early Modern Atlantic World

The search for powerful drugs has caused people and commodities to move around the globe for many centuries, as it still does, for it profits both states of bodily well-being and the pocketbook. For thousands of years, medicinals had been among the va…

Trading in Drugs through Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Enterprise

In the eighteenth century, an ingoing trade in medicinals was conducted with North America largely if not exclusively by smaller suppliers and firms. The steady demographic growth in the thirteen colonies due to European immigration and African slave …

Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies interchangeably in medical trials; subjects were scarce and, for the most part, used with extreme care. Experimentalists in…

The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean

This article explores the routes followed by ideas and practices related to the body emerging in seventeenth-century Caribbean locales like Cartagena de Indias and Havana. Mobile and interconnected Spanish Caribbean ritual practitioners of African des…