Archiv für Juli 2015

Tiffany Watt Smith, On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/649?rss=1

Inhaling Democracy: Cigarette Advertising and Health Education in Post-war West Germany, 1950s-1975

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the West German government was faced with the challenge of addressing a damaging health behaviour, smoking, in the context of an emerging late modern democracy, when the precedent for addressing that behaviour was se…

Louise Hill Curth, ‚A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse‘: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/643?rss=1

Ignored Disease or Diagnostic Dustbin? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the British Context

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) was defined in 1969 and incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases a decade later. To advocates of SIDS as a diagnosis, medical interest in sudden infant death was long overdue. However, the defi…

Laurie B. Green, John McKiernan-Gonzalez and Martin Summers, (eds), Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/652?rss=1

‚Nature Concocts & Expels‘: The Agents and Processes of Recovery from Disease in Early Modern England

The ‘golden saying’ in early modern medicine was ‘Nature is the healer of disease’. This article uncovers the meaning and significance of this forgotten axiom by investigating perceptions of the agents and physiological process…

Gerald N. Grob, Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/659?rss=1

‚I would not feel the pain if I were with you‘: Catalina Micaela and the Cycle of Pregnancy at the Court of Turin, 1585-1597

Using the correspondence of Catalina Micaela (1567–97), Duchess of Savoy, with her husband, Carlo Emanuele I as evidence, this article examines an early modern aristocratic woman’s experience of and attitudes about pregnancy, childbirth, lactati…

Christopher Bonfield, Jonathan Reinarz and Teresa Huguet-Termes, (eds), Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/3/646?rss=1

HIS volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Miscellaneous The Historical Journal, Volume 58 Issue 03, pp b1-b8Abstract