Archiv für Januar 2014

Daniel Freund, American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/166?rss=1

Alexander B. Bay, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/179?rss=1

Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham (eds), Herbs and Healers From the Ancient Mediterranean Through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/165?rss=1

Nandini Bhattacharya, Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/175?rss=1

Duty to Entitlement: Work and Citizenship in the Finnish Post-War Disability Policy, early 1940s to 1970

This paper analyses Finnish disability policies from the early 1940s to 1970. It focuses on the conceptualisation of work and citizenship in the discussions on the legal provision of welfare for invalids and for the mentally deficient/developmentally …

Mary McAlpin, Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/196?rss=1

Roy Porter Student Prize Essay For the People’s Health: Ideology, Medical Authority and Hygienic Science in Communist Czechoslovakia

The communist political milieu offered distinct professional, scientific and socio-political advantages to agents of public health and hygiene in post-war Czechoslovakia. Hygienists employed the imperatives of Marxist-Leninism and Sovietisation to cal…

Jeremy Hugh Baron, The Stomach: A Biography. Four Thousand Years of Stomach Pains: Literature, Symptoms and Epidemiology

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/189?rss=1

‚Therapy Means Political Change, Not Peanut Butter‘: American Radical Psychiatry, 1968-1975

As early as the 1950s, the profession of psychiatry in the United States began to experience a series of subtle adjustments. By the mid-1960s, the American Psychiatric Association was gripped and bound by the larger social, economic and political tren…

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and David Kaiser (eds), Science and the American Century: Readings from „Isis“

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/183?rss=1