Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939-45
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/651?rss=1
Archiv für Juli 2015
Finding Historical Records at the National Institutes of Health
This paper provides a guide to finding historical records of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US biomedical research agency funded by the federal government, and one of the world’s largest research funding bodies. Such records are importan…
Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard (eds), Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/647?rss=1
Sources and Resources Into the Dark Domain: The UK Web Archive as a Source for the Contemporary History of Public Health
With the migration of the written record from paper to digital format, archivists and historians must urgently consider how web content should be conserved, retrieved and analysed. The British Library has recently acquired a large number of UK domain …
Nancy G. Siraisi, Communities of Learned Experience. Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/644?rss=1
The Quiet Time? Pay-beds and Private Practice in the National Health Service: 1948-1970
The study of the history of private practice in the NHS has generally been focused on either the introduction or the abolition of pay-beds. This article looks at the period characterised as the ‘Quiet Time’ when a political consensus seemi…
Medical Condition, Demon or Undead Corpse? Sleep Paralysis and the Nightmare in Medieval Europe
The aim of this article is to analyse the popular perception of the nightmare in medieval Europe. The first section will explore the ways in which the base experience of the nightmare (as documented in neuropsychological research) was interpreted acco…
Prostitutes, Penicillin and Prophylaxis: Fighting Venereal Disease in the Commonwealth Division during the Korean War, 1950-1953
Historically, venereal disease (VD) has represented a significant manpower problem for the armed forces and the Korean War (1950–53) was no exception. Amongst British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand troops deployed to the Far East, rates o…
Ruth J. Prince and Rebecca Marsland (eds), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/655?rss=1
The Poison of Touch: Tracing Mercurial Treatments of Venereal Diseases in Tibet
Robert Saunders was a surgeon on the British Turner expedition to Tibet in 1783–85. In 1789, Saunders published a description of a mercury processing method for treating ‘the venereal disease’ that he witnessed at Tashilhunpo. Since …