Nursing the colonised: the politics of representation of the Western nurse in plague-stricken Bombay [0.03%]
Rinu Koshy
Rinu Koshy
The 1896 Bombay plague outbreak prompted the colonial government to recruit trained British nurses from England to serve the afflicted Indians of the Presidency. Studying this relatively under-explored aspect of British colonial nursing, th...
'Opening' the closed method: military-civilian exchanges and transatlantic circulations in Manuel Bastos' early work on compound fractures (1909-24) [0.03%]
Francisco Javier Martinez,Carlos Murillo-Arribas
Francisco Javier Martinez
The closed method for the treatment of compound fractures of the limbs emerged and popularised during the interwar period. The historiography on this procedure sustains an essentially Anglo-Saxon narrative focusing on contributions by the A...
The 'Spanish' influenza pandemic: new evidence for influenza outbreaks in England and France prior to 1918 [0.03%]
Douglas Gill,John Oxford
Douglas Gill
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 caused well over fifty million deaths. The epicentre undoubtedly was China, where gene mixing of different virus strains occurred amongst aquatic, migrant birds. But where and when did the virus first ...
Lukas Frank,Dominik Groß,Nico Biermanns
Lukas Frank
The physician and chemist Heinrich Mückter (1914-87) is widely known for his role in developing thalidomide at Grünenthal, whose market launch led to one of the most serious pharmaceutical scandals in history. Less scholarly attention has...
The anatomy theatre and the slaughterhouse: emotion, vivisection, and the disciplines of medicine in the experimental practices of Charles Bell [0.03%]
解剖演示厅与屠宰场：情感、动物实验及外科医学的学科实践——以查尔斯·贝尔为例
James Bradley
James Bradley
This article examines Charles Bell's experimental practices by drawing historiographical attention away from the priority disputes over the spinal nerve functions for which he was most famous. I argue that Bell's primary research interest w...
Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness - new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries [0.03%]
专题介绍：全球南方的精神病历史——关于拉丁美洲和非洲19世纪至20世纪精神困扰与精神病学的新视角
Irène Favier,Romain Tiquet
Irène Favier
This special issue, which brings together six articles, seeks to explore the question of madness from non-European contexts (Latin America and Africa), taking part in the dynamic renewal of historiography on mental disorder and psychiatry i...
'I cannot say that he is of unsound mind': the case of Lunatic Richard Lea [0.03%]
“我说不出他精神不正常”——理查德·利诉伦敦精神病院案
Mishka Wazar
Mishka Wazar
This paper examines letters from the casebooks of the Valkenberg Lunatic Asylum in the Cape Colony during the South African War. Valkenberg was opened in 1891 in Cape Town, and was the only asylum established exclusively for white patients ...
Ailing reactors and their isotopes: radiopharmacy and nuclear research in Belgium (1990-2020) [0.03%]
濒死的反应堆及其同位素：比利时放射药学和核研究（1990-2020）
Hein Brookhuis
Hein Brookhuis
This article studies the relation between research reactors, the development of nuclear research centres and the pharmaceutical industry in the recent history of nuclear medicine. While existing scholarship has rightfully highlighted how me...
When prevention became social: public health atomism and the assemblage of a National Immunisation Programme in the Netherlands, 1872-1959 [0.03%]
当预防成为社交：荷兰1872年至1959年的公共卫生原子论和国家免疫计划的形成
Martijn van der Meer
Martijn van der Meer
This article examines the historical transformation of childhood vaccination in the Netherlands between 1872 and 1959. It analyses how vaccination was reframed from an individual parental responsibility to a collective practice through the ...