Portuguese colonial exploration and settlement in Brazil during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries included a significant, though to date largely underappreciated, dimension of medical inquiry, the impact of which resonated throughout…
The skin disease boasie became a major health problem in the Dutch colony of Suriname from the 1740s–1750s onwards. European doctors attempted to come to a closer understanding of the disease, and established that it was identical to the leprosy…
This paper investigates ways in which early modern English recipe collections constructed domestic medicine as broader and more powerful than is often appreciated. It shows that their compilers frequently selected recipes that promised to allow them t…
The article examines the political processes associated with the funding and organisation of Norway’s Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Attempts to transform and develop Haukeland Hospital were complex and &…
This article investigates the somewhat under-studied Greenlandic kayak fear; a diagnosis that appeared in 1864 and declined as a subject of urgency after about 1940. It follows the aetiology of the diagnosis as it changes from a lifestyle-related phen…
This article investigates Swedish drug treatment as an ideological project, from the establishment of the first treatment centres in the late 1960s up until the change in legislation and management in the early 1980s. The empirical basis for the analy…
It is widely agreed that the effectiveness of the World Health Organization (WHO) as a policy body derives chiefly from its reputation as a source of authoritative knowledge. However, little has been done to show just how WHO mobilises knowledge for p…
The paper assesses the development of antibiotic resistance diagnostics after 1945. In the 1950s, demand for such testing led to the adaptation of procedures from experimental pharmacology and bacterial genetics to the needs of clinical microbiology. …
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