Alan Derickson, Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/209?rss=1
Archiv für Januar 2015
Helen King, The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/194?rss=1
Angelique Richardson (ed.), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/206?rss=1
‚Pretty Pioneering-Spirited People‘: Genetic Counsellors, Gender Culture, and the Professional Evolution of a Feminised Health Field, 1947-1980
Between the late 1940s and the 1980s, the field of genetic counselling transformed from a peripheral interest of physician-geneticists, to a profession dominated by women with Masters degrees. Drawing on oral histories with genetic counsellors, this a…
Peter Kirby, Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain 1780-1850
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/203?rss=1
‚Roy Porter Student Prize Essay, 2012‘ Easing the Passing: R v Adams and Terminal Care in Postwar Britain
This article examines the 1957 trial for murder of Dr John Bodkin Adams in the context of medical care of the dying in postwar Britain. R v Adams is significant because it is understood to have rendered lawful the medical administration of pain-reliev…
Virginia Berridge, Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/221?rss=1
Inter-imperial Learning and African Health Care in Portuguese Angola in the Interwar Period
In the 1920s, the Angolan health services eventually established a long-debated programme of African health care called Assistência Médica aos Indígenas (AMI). This article shows that, aside from economic and humanitarian considera…
Marius Turda, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/216?rss=1
The ‚Regiment of Skeletons‘: A First World War Medical Collection
Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, pathologists and senior military clinicians set out to record and collect information relating to conflict-related conditions and wounds. This material included not only statistics, case histories and cl…