Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Jones, C. L.,
Allgemein.
This article provides a much needed commercial perspective to the gradual growth in consumption of birth control appliances in England and Wales between 1880 and 1960. By drawing on underutilized parliamentary sources and the hitherto neglected business records of manufacturers, vendors and distributors, this new approach reveals that consumption patterns were more varied in terms of class, gender and geographical location than scholars have generally recognized. In particular, its analysis of the production, promotion and distribution of birth control appliances alongside medical goods intended for domestic use during this period demonstrates the importance of consumption both among and beyond the primary married couple of the household. In doing so, this article aims to provide the medical historian with a new analytic tool for investigating neglected but potentially important sites of medical decision making.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/4/734?rss=1
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Steere-Williams, J.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Baschin, M.,
Allgemein.
This paper deals with the history of self-treatment in homeopathy, focusing mainly on the territories of the German Empire between 1870 and 1918, by reconstructing some of the conditions under which this took place. Consideration is given to why homeopathy was such an appropriate option for home medicine; how lay people acquired the knowledge to use homeopathic remedies at home in cases of illness; and what remedies were available for practising homeopathy in private households. The paper shows that the use of this ‘alternative’ method was a common and important part of the wide field of home remedies.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/4/717?rss=1
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Tansey, T.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Cavallo, S.,
Allgemein.
This essay challenges the enduring view that medical definitions of unhealthy air and the measures devised to counter its noxious effects, remained unchanged for centuries. The focus on the home, domestic practices and household advice literature reveals that in the sixteenth century bad air was increasingly conceptualised as seasonally, locally and home-produced, rather than as being determined by distant, external and ungovernable agents. Inspired by a greater confidence in the possibility of controlling nature, environments and lifestyles, doctors and architects engaged in providing solutions and advice aimed to preserve pure air that increasingly affected consumers' choices about home design and furnishings. The essay also suggests that the focus on ‘bad air’ has led to neglect shifting conceptualisation of ‘good air’. For example, the case of the changing purposes of domestic perfuming practices and artifacts reveals that fragrant air was increasingly appreciated for its impact upon the senses and spiritual wellbeing.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/4/695?rss=1
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Offer, M.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
van Andel, T.,
Allgemein.
Enslaved Africans in Suriname faced not only a harsh environment and brutal conditions, but the challenge of sourcing therapeutically useful plants in an unfamiliar land. How did they discover medicinal herbs in the New World? Literature suggests that slave medicine was already well developed in eighteenth-century Suriname, while herbaria prove that Old World plants were present since 1687. Current vernacular plant names reveal European, Amerindian and African influence. Ethnobotanical research among present-day Afro-Surinamers and related West African groups demonstrates that although most plants used by Afro-Surinamers are Neotropical, preparation methods and applications are still very African. This illustrates the durability and persistence of household medicine despite the disruption during the Middle Passage. Afro-Surinamers have reinvented their household medicine by using familiar Old World plants, selecting New World plants that were related to African ones, incorporating knowledge of other ethnic groups and deploying trial and error.
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/29/4/676?rss=1
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Winkler, A.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 9, 2016, 7:53 a.m.,
Hendriksen, M.,
Allgemein.
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Dezember 9, 2016, 1:00 a.m.,
trivium,
Allgemein.
Jane Caplan est professeur émérite d’histoire européenne contemporaine à Oxford, fellow émérite au St Anthony’s College, Oxford et professeur émérite d’histoire européenne au Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvanie, USA.
Site : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hist0138/
Quelle: http://trivium.revues.org/5403
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