The Degenerating Sex: Female Sterilisation, Medical Authority and Racial Purity in Catholic Brazil [0.03%]
退化的性别:巴西天主教国家的女性绝育、医学权威和种族纯洁性
Cassia Roth
Cassia Roth
This article examines female sterilisation practices in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It argues that the medical profession, particularly obstetricians and psychiatrists, used debates over the issue to solidify its moral a...
Contraception and Catholicism in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on Expert, Activist and Intimate Practices [0.03%]
二十世纪的避孕与天主教:关于专家、活跃分子及私人性实践的跨国视角
Agata Ignaciuk,Laura Kelly
Agata Ignaciuk
This special issue uses Catholicism as a thread to bring together five contributions to the transnational history of contraception. The articles, which cover examples from Western and East-Central Europe, East Africa and Latin America, all ...
Photograph as Skin, Skin as Wax: Indexicality and the Visualisation of Syphilis in Fin-de-Siècle France The William Bynum Prize Essay [0.03%]
摄影如皮肤,皮肤如蜡像:世纪之交的法国视觉化梅毒及其指号性——威廉·拜纳姆奖获奖论文
Kathleen Pierce
Kathleen Pierce
In early twentieth-century France, syphilis and its controversial status as a hereditary disease reigned as a chief concern for physicians and public health officials. As syphilis primarily presented visually on the surface of the skin, its...
Between Donor Interest, Global Models and Local Conditions: Treatment and Decision-Making in the Somalia-Finland Tuberculosis Control Project, 1981-3 [0.03%]
捐助者兴趣、全球模式与当地条件之间的关系:1981—1983年索马里-芬兰肺结核控制项目的治疗和决策过程分析
Kaisa Harju
Kaisa Harju
Despite numerous global health initiatives after World War II, tuberculosis still poses a major threat in sub-Saharan Africa. This article examines one attempt to tackle this problem: the Somalia-Finland Tuberculosis Control Project. Conduc...
Re-assessing the Foundations: Worldwide Smallpox Eradication, 1957-67 [0.03%]
重新评估基础:1957—1967年全球消灭天花计划
Sanjoy Bhattacharya,Carlos Eduardo DAvila Pereira Campani
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
An expansive, worldwide smallpox eradication programme (SEP) was announced by the World Health Assembly in 1958, leading this decision-making body to instruct the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva to work with WHO regional of...
Still Controversial: Early Detection and Screening for Breast Cancer in Brazil, 1950-2010s [0.03%]
争议不断的乳腺癌早期检测与筛查:巴西1950-2010年代的故事
Luiz Antonio da Silva Teixeira,Luiz Alves Araújo Neto
Luiz Antonio da Silva Teixeira
Mammographic screening for breast cancer is a widely used public health approach, but is constantly a subject of controversy. Medical and historical research on this topic has been mainly conducted in Western Europe and North America. In Br...
'To Awaken the Medical and Hygienic Conscience of the People': Cultivating Enlightened Citizenship through Free Public Healthcare in Haiti from 1915-34 [0.03%]
“唤醒民众的医疗和卫生意识”:1915—1934年免费公共医疗在培育海地开明公民精神中的作用
Elliott M Reichardt
Elliott M Reichardt
This paper addresses the relative scholarly oversight of the history of public health in Haiti through a close examination of the colonial public health system constructed and operated by the United States (US) during its occupation of Hait...
An Analysis of the United States and United Kingdom Smallpox Epidemics (1901-5) - The Special Relationship that Tested Public Health Strategies for Disease Control [0.03%]
美国和英国的天花流行(1901-1905)——检验疾病控制公共卫策略的特殊关系
Bernard Brabin
Bernard Brabin
At the end of the nineteenth century, the northern port of Liverpool had become the second largest in the United Kingdom. Fast transatlantic steamers to Boston and other American ports exploited this route, increasing the risk of maritime d...
Comparative Study
Medical history. 2020 Jan;64(1):1-31. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2019.74 2020
An Uneasy Pleasure: Representing the Dangers of Skin-to-skin Contact in Eighteenth-century London ' The William Bynum Prize Essay' [0.03%]
肌肤之危:18世纪伦敦皮肤接触危险的表达获奖论文"The William Bynum Prize Essay"威廉·比农姆奖论文
Sara Fernandes
Sara Fernandes
This article considers the social function of contagious disease as moderator of class relationships in England during the first half of the eighteenth century and takes into account the ways in which the 'communicability' of the plague, gr...
A Gift from the Buddhist Monastery: The Role of Buddhist Medical Practices in the Assimilation of the Opium Poppy in Chinese Medicine during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) [0.03%]
宋代(960-1279)佛教医药实践中藏红花引入中国医学之研究
Jose A Canton-Alvarez
Jose A Canton-Alvarez
This paper aims to critically appraise the incorporation of opium poppy into medical practice in Song-dynasty China. By analysing materia medica and formularies, along with non-medical sources from the Song period, this study sheds light on...