Different aspirations: medicine, activism and uterine vacuum aspiration technology in Spain (1960s-1980s) [0.03%]
各异的追求:西班牙的医学、活动与子宫真空吸引技术(20世纪六十年代至八十年代)
María Mundi-López,Agata Ignaciuk
María Mundi-López
In this article we trace a biography of vacuum aspiration in Spain between the 1960s and 1980s. Analysing the local but transnationally connected history of vacuum aspiration during late Francoism and the democratic transition, we argue tha...
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott's British National Antarctic expedition, 1901-1904 - CORRIGENDUM [0.03%]
关于罗伯特·斯科特南极远征(1901—1904)途中医学界对营养、清洁空气和运动的论争及极地卫生问题——勘误表
Edward Armston-Sheret
Edward Armston-Sheret
Published Erratum
Medical history. 2025 Sep 15:1. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2025.10033 2025
Nick Hopwood
Nick Hopwood
Ghostwriting autobiographies has gained so high a profile that novels and films focus on the ghost. To deepen understanding of such collaborations in science and medicine, this article reconstructs the making of A Matter of Life (1980), 'th...
The treatment of alcoholism that should not exist: Addiction, East German doctors, and Western methods in the German Democratic Republic [0.03%]
本不应存在的酒瘾疗法:东德医生、西德方法以及德国民主共和国的戒瘾措施
Markus Wahl
Markus Wahl
Addiction was considered 'alien to Socialism'. At least, that was the narrative upheld by the socialist East German state, which thus followed the traditional argumentation of socialist and social democratic movements since the turn of the ...
'At least our pituitaries will see the world': Pituitary gland export from communist Bulgaria [0.03%]
至少我们的垂体会看到世界:共产主义保加利亚的垂体出口
Daniela Koleva
Daniela Koleva
The article focuses on the export of cadaveric pituitary glands from communist Bulgaria in the 1980s, used for the production of human growth hormone. The case is explored in the broader context of practices and transnational networks for t...
Little lives-reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database [0.03%]
小小生命——读《北安普敦济贫院18世纪儿童收容数据库》劄记
Madeleine Mant,Judy Chau,Bryce Hull et al.
Madeleine Mant et al.
The presence of children in eighteenth-century English voluntary hospitals is an area of increasing interest and attention. The Northampton Infirmary admission records detail inpatient and outpatient ages from 1744 to 1804, allowing for lon...
'This restriction of expression': migration, social catastrophes, and psychiatry in Cold War Taiwan [0.03%]
《此种表达限制》:冷战时期的台湾与迁移、社会灾难和精神病学
Wen-Ji Wang,Yan-Je Yin
Wen-Ji Wang
This article explores the intersection of Cold War geopolitics, cultural psychiatry, and migration in Taiwan from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. Building on recent scholarship in cultural psychiatry and Cold War science, it examines how geopol...
Situated efficacy: FMD vaccines in France and Britain, 1930s-1960s [0.03%]
特定情境下的有效性的研究:法国和英国20世纪30年代至60年代的口蹄疫疫苗的发展历程研究
Delphine Berdah
Delphine Berdah
Following the trajectories of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in France and Britain up to the 1960s, this paper will show how vaccine efficacy has two meanings: 1) technical - or experimental - which refers to test protocols a...
Dmitry Ezrokhi
Dmitry Ezrokhi
This paper examines the history of the 'lower cavity' of the gastrointestinal tract, a distinctive anatomical feature in Greco-Roman medicine that described a second stomach-like organ in the large intestine. It traces how a bipartite model...
Popular health guides and their reception in Finland, 1890s-1970s [0.03%]
芬兰的流行健康指南及其在1890年代至1970年代的接受情况
Ilari Virtanen,Kalle Kananoja
Ilari Virtanen
This article explores the cultivation of medical knowledge via popular health guides among the Finnish lay populace from the 1890s to the 1970s. By using written reminiscences and newspaper articles as source material, the article discusses...