Henriette Remi, Hommes sans visage
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/210?rss=1
Archiv für Januar 2015
Performing State Medicine During its ‚Frustrating‘ Years: Epidemiology and Bacteriology at the Local Government Board, 1870-1900
This article is about the performance—referring to the projection and reception—of state medicine in late Victorian Britain. Moving away from the lens of the ideas and policies historians have previously explored, I focus on epidemiologica…
Paul Laxton and Richard Rodger, Insanitary City: Henry Littlejohn and the Condition of Edinburgh
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/204?rss=1
Mr Giovanni Succi Meets Dr Luigi Luciani in Florence: Hunger Artists and Experimental Physiology in the Late Nineteenth Century
This paper describes the fast of the hunger artist Giovanni Succi (1853–1918) and his stay at the laboratory of Professor Luigi Luciani (1840–1919), in Florence, in 1888. In his fight against public suspicion of fraud, Succi’s success in t…
Marika Seigel, The Rhetoric of Pregnancy
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/219?rss=1
The State, the People and the Care of Sick and Injured Sailors in Late Stuart England
This article sheds new light on the depth and breadth of the Royal Navy’s partnership with private care providers in one English town, Portsmouth, during the second Anglo-Dutch war (1664–67), by paying special attention to the role of landladies…
Lundy Braun, Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/207?rss=1
Of the China Root: A Case Study of the Early Modern Circulation of Materia Medica
The early modern rise of syphilis provoked similar anxieties to those that more recently accompanied the global spread of HIV/AIDS. It also stimulated global demand for remedies. I discuss one of the most popular, known as ‘China root’ and…
Cassandra S. Crawford, Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment and Prosthetic Technology
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/213?rss=1
‚Lead[ing] ‚em by the Nose into Publick Shame and Derision‘: Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Alexander Read and the Lost History of Plastic Surgery, 1600-1800
This paper discusses the surgical reconstruction of the nose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This procedure was most prominently detailed by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi in De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem libri duo (Veni…