Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Ritch, A.,
Allgemein.
How prominent a role the workhouse played in the lives of older paupers in the nineteenth century is a matter of debate. This article addresses this issue, as well as the difficulty in determining who was classified as old and identifying them within Birmingham workhouse. It argues that Birmingham's institutionalisation rate of older paupers was more akin to London than an average provincial union. Birmingham was one of the few workhouses which provided dedicated facilities for those with disability, labelled ‘bedridden wards’. Examination of the inmates within these wards aids our understanding of the development of poor law institutions as providers of care for older people with chronic illness in the twentieth century.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/64?rss=1
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Lieffers, C.,
Allgemein.
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Heaton, M. M.,
Allgemein.
This article examines the experiences of mentally ill Nigerian migrants during the colonial era. Migrant Nigerian ‘lunatics’ faced different circumstances depending on what type of migrant they were and where they fell ill. Those in the UK tended to be repatriated for medical reasons, while those within the West African region rarely returned home because of financial considerations. Nigerian pilgrims to Mecca are noticeably absent from the discourse as are procedures associated with the relationship between migration and mental illness, despite the fact that they made up a large and constant flow of migrants from Nigeria during the colonial period. By putting these transnational individuals at the centre of analysis, this article provides a comparative perspective that reveals contingencies of psychiatric biopower that are often subsumed in narratives that focus on the activities of specific colonial asylums within individual colonial states.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/41?rss=1
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Turner, A.,
Allgemein.
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Yeniyurt, K.,
Allgemein.
The use of the vaginal speculum was as important to Victorian doctors who struggled to professionalise the fields of gynaecology and obstetrics as it was controversial, especially when such doctors were men attending to women of respectable class status. While the debate over the use of the speculum in Victorian Britain was certainly rooted in moral concerns over the exposure of women's bodies, an examination of the arguments made by Victorian medical men concerning the use of the instrument reveals that there was more than just modesty at stake. This article will consider how the nineteenth-century texts that articulate different positions regarding the use of the speculum in gynaecological examinations also demonstrate important tensions relating to the privileging of the sense of sight versus touch in Victorian medicine, particularly when referring to the respective utility and purpose of a male doctor's visual or tactile knowledge of the inside of a woman's body.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/22?rss=1
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Scheid, V.,
Allgemein.
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Clark, F.,
Allgemein.
This study analyses the narrative elements of a little-known report into anti-venereal trials written by an Irish military physician-surgeon, Daniel O'Sullivan (1760–c.1797). It explores the way in which O'Sullivan as the narrator of the Historico-critical report creates medical heroes and anti-heroes as a means to criticise procedures initiated by staff in the Hospital General de San Andrés, Mexico City. The resulting work depicts a much less positive picture of medical trials and hospital authorities in this period than has been recorded to date, and provides a critical and complicated assessment of one of Spain's leading physicians of the nineteenth century, Francisco Javier Balmis (1753–1819).
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/27/1/2?rss=1
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Januar 23, 2014, 3:49 p.m.,
Social History of Medicine - current issue,
Allgemein.
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Januar 22, 2014, 6:29 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: Labor History: Table of Contents,
article.
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Januar 22, 2014, 5:30 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: Labor History: Table of Contents,
article.
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