Annette F. Timm, The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/4/915?rss=1
Archiv für Oktober 2012
Children’s Physic: Medical Perceptions and Treatment of Sick Children in Early Modern England, c. 1580-1720
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/4/917?rss=1
Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell, Cambodians and their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/4/894?rss=1
The Death of the Sick Role
The concept of the sick role was introduced into sociology in 1951 and was widely used in medical sociology. A sick person at that time would assume a special social role that permitted him or her to deviate from his or her normal social roles. Histor…
Alison Nuttall and Rosemary Mander (eds.), James Young Simpson: Lad o Pairts
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/4/892?rss=1
The ‚Miracle of Childbirth‘: The Portrayal of Parturient Women in Medieval Miracle Narratives
This paper explores how tales of difficult births found in medieval miracle narratives can contribute to our understanding of the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in twelfth-century England. While rare in the early collections, pregnant and part…
Germs at Work: Establishing Tuberculosis as an Occupational Disease in Britain, c.1900-1951
In 1951, tuberculosis was added to the statutory list of prescribed occupational diseases in the UK, giving some workers the right to financial compensation. This article explores the long campaign to define TB as an illness linked to employment, inve…
Identity-Formation and the Breastfeeding Mother in Renaissance Generative Discourses and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
The article argues that fresh insight into Renaissance infant feeding practices can be gained by situating maternal milk within the context of the mother’s material contributions to children in the generative narrative as a whole. The humoral milk of …
Michael Stolberg, Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe, translated by Leonhard Unglaub and Logan Kennedy
Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/4/908?rss=1
Church, State and Family: The Advent of Child Guidance Clinics in Independent Ireland
This article considers the advent of psychiatric services for children in independent Ireland through the establishment of the first state-funded child guidance clinic in the mid-1950s. Ireland was somewhat late to embrace the child guidance model whi…