Ludger Wimmelbücker,Anita Kar
Ludger Wimmelbücker
In contrast to the well-known stories of the embryotoxic drug, thalidomide, in countries where it was responsible for large numbers of birth defects, there is limited information on its history in India. Its presence before 2002, when the c...
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928-65 [0.03%]
了解畜群健康状况的方法：调查的时代（1928-1965）
Abigail Woods
Abigail Woods
This article advances historical understandings of health, veterinary medicine and livestock agriculture by examining how, in mid-twentieth-century Britain, the diseases of livestock were made collectively knowable. During this period, the ...
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England [0.03%]
济贫院还是收容所？——19世纪英国的贫困精神病人安置问题
Alistair Ritch
Alistair Ritch
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of pauper lunatics being admitted to institutions and many mentally-ill paupers found their way into workhouses. The range of options existing for ...
'Pearls' of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire [0.03%]
十九世纪的“宝石”：从具有疗效的演员到全球性商品——奥斯曼帝国的药用蛭疗法
Büşra Arabacı
Büşra Arabacı
Nineteenth-century physicians increasingly favoured leeching - the placing of a live leech onto a patient's skin to stimulate or limit blood flow - as a cure for numerous ailments. As conviction in their therapeutic properties spread, leech...
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985-2022 [0.03%]
参与消灭：1985—2022年防治饮乳病如何定义根除，以及根除又如何重新定义饮乳病
Jonathan David Roberts
Jonathan David Roberts
Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) is a debilitating waterborne disease. Once widespread, it is now on the brink of eradication. However, the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GWEP), like guinea worm itself, has been under-studied by his...
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England [0.03%]
我们丢失了睡眠吗？兼论英国早期现代史中的分段睡眠现象
Niall Boyce
Niall Boyce
The theory that the people of the early modern period slept in well-defined segments of 'first' and 'second' sleeps has been highly influential in both scholarly literature and mainstream media over the past twenty years. Based on a combina...
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: 'phony cronies' and the Repat in 1960s Australia [0.03%]
造假军人的医学恐惧：“冒牌病友”与20世纪60年代的澳大利亚退伍军人事务局
Effie Karageorgos
Effie Karageorgos
The fear of the malingering soldier or veteran has existed in Australia since its first nationwide military venture in South Africa. The establishment of the Repatriation Department in 1917 saw the medical, military and political fields wor...
'The poetry of psychiatry': existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco's Spain [0.03%]
《精神病学的诗篇》：存在分析与弗朗哥统治下的西班牙精神病理政治
Enric J Novella
Enric J Novella
This article examines the presence and influence of the work of Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger and existential analysis (Daseinsanalyse) in Spanish psychiatry in the central decades of the 20th century. First, and drawing on various p...
The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 1953 [0.03%]
后殖民地国际卫生的复杂性：1953年Karl Evang在印度的工作
Sunniva Engh
Sunniva Engh
In February and March 1953, a WHO Visiting Team of Medical Scientists worked in India, collaborating with local medical students and professionals. This article studies the complexities of early postcolonial international health work and th...
Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951-61 [0.03%]
后殖民语境下的社会医学谈判：汉夫丹马勒的印度岁月（1951—1961）
Niels Brimnes
Niels Brimnes
This article investigates how World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Halfdan Mahler's views on health care were formed by his experience in India between 1951 and 1961. Mahler spent a large part of the 1950s in India assigned as W...