Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/416?rss=1
Archiv für April 2015
Mark Jackson, The History of Medicine: A Beginner’s Guide
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/423?rss=1
Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds), Picturing Women’s Health (Warwick Series in the Humanities)
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/420?rss=1
John S. Haller Jr., Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/421?rss=1
Liberty Walther Barnes Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/402?rss=1
Richard Sugg, The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/2/401?rss=1
From Women’s Expectations to Scientific Specimens: The Fate of Miscarriage Materials in Nineteenth-Century America
This article explores physicians‘ and women’s descriptions of miscarriage in late-nineteenth-century America. As the science of human embryology developed, doctors in the USA began seeking out miscarriage cases in order to access fetal and embryonic t…
‚A Burden on the County‘: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire
This article explores the responses of the Poor Law authorities, asylum superintendents and Lunacy Commissioners to the huge influx of Irish patients into the Lancashire public asylum system, a system facing intense pressure in terms of numbers and co…
The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
The Great Pox marked the early modern era. Not only did this chronic disease lead to long-term shifts in medical knowledge, but it also reached across the social spectrum to touch individuals, families, and communities of all guises. As such, pox infe…
Class, Health and the Proposed British Anthropometric Survey of 1904
In 1904, amid heightened fears of urban degeneration, members of the British Association’s Anthropometric Committee drafted plans to measure thousands of citizens to establish the state of the national physique. Their proposal was presented to the Int…