Mitzi Waltz, Autism: A Social and Medical History
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/2/417?rss=1
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Pat Thane and Tanya Evans, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/2/392?rss=1
Yolanda Eraso, Representing Argentinian Mothers: Medicine, Ideas and Culture in the Modern Era, 1900-1946
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/2/394?rss=1
‚Scientific Truth into Homely Language‘: The Training and Practice of Midwives in Ophthalmia Neonatorum, 1895-1914
Ophthalmia neonatorum, a form of neonatal conjunctivitis, was seen to be a serious problem in England at the turn of the twentieth century. Midwives were directly implicated in its prevalence with debate ensuing over the extent to which they should be…
‚I’m not the tradesman‘: A Case Study of District Midwifery in Nottingham and Derby 1954-1974
This paper uses oral and documentary evidence to explore district midwifery between 1954 and the 1974 re-organisation of the National Health Service. It argues that during this period district midwives saw themselves as having autonomy and prestige in…
Eyesight and Governance in Britain: Bureaucracy and the Senses in the 1920s
Eyesight became a public concern to an unprecedented extent in 1920s Britain. This article discusses a number of enquiries made in these years into the causes of the impairment of eyesight, related legislation and some industry field studies.
Modern Mothers for Third World Nations: Population Control, Western Medical Imperialism, and Cold War Politics in Haiti
This article examines American Unitarian Universalist missionaries who were avowed ‘anti-imperialists’. They opposed United States military and economic hegemony and hoped to resolve ‘Third World’ dependency. Nevertheless, they…
Christianity and Eugenics: The Place of Religion in the British Eugenics Education Society and the American Eugenics Society, c.1907-1940
Historians have regularly acknowledged the significance of religious faith to the eugenics movement in Britain and the USA. However, much of this scholarship suggests a polarised relationship of either conflict or consensus. Where Christian believers …
Madness and Sexual Psychopathies as the Magnifying Glass of the Normal: Italian Psychiatry and Sexuality c.1880-1910
By focusing on Italian psychiatric debates about sexual inversion this article shows how Italian psychiatrists came to argue that there was no clear-cut boundary between normal sexual behaviour and sexual perversion, and traces the debates and fields …
The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal: An Intimate Social and Political History, 1915-1959
In recent decades, the study of the history of medicine and psychiatry has grown and interest has been developed in the particular social and institutional configuration of fields such as child psychiatry. That historical literature has, however, acco…