Who Was Afraid of Pregnancy Tests? Gestational Information and Reproduction Policies in France (1920-50) [0.03%]
法国的妊娠检测焦虑(1920-1950):妊娠信息与生育政策的关系探究
Fabrice Cahen
Fabrice Cahen
Though resulting from a long-term process, the need to manage pregnancies both medically and bureaucratically became a state concern, especially from the 1920s onwards. A woman's official obligation to notify the state of her pregnancy (and...
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn,Caroline Rusterholz
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
This special issue adopts a comparative approach to the politics of reproduction in twentieth-century France and Britain. The articles investigate the flow of information, practices and tools across national boundaries and between groups of...
Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920-63) - ADDENDUM [0.03%]
公共卫生、社会医学与疾病控制：前葡萄牙西非的医疗服务、妇幼保健和性病（1920—1963）——补编
Philip J Havik
Philip J Havik
Published Erratum
Medical history. 2019 Jan;63(1):116. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2018.80 2019
'Three Cheers for the Brown, Grey and Black': A Review of Teeth at the Wellcome Collection, London [0.03%]
“为棕色、灰色和黑色干杯”——关于惠康收藏馆“牙齿”展的观后感
Rebecca Kearney
Rebecca Kearney
The Historical Face of Narcotic Revisited: A Chinese City's Fifty-Year Quest for Hygienic Modernity, 1900-49 [0.03%]
百年药瘾史：二十世纪前半期中国一座城市现代化进程中的清洁梦想
Jianan Huang
Jianan Huang
For decades, people have viewed narcotics as a devil impeding the modernisation of China, but they have recently been faced with the challenge of declaring that narcotics are harmless in some instances. A deeper understanding of this issue ...
In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health [0.03%]
从军营和行军中管窥公共卫生：研究前现代公共卫生活的军事手册资料
G Geltner
G Geltner
Historians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralised bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have beg...
Susan Heydon
Susan Heydon
This article explores the introduction of smallpox vaccination into Nepal in 1816 at the request of the Nepalese government; the king, however, was not vaccinated, contracted the disease and died. British hopes that vaccination would be ext...
Linda Bryder
Linda Bryder
This article focuses on Britain's 1917 National Baby Week and specifically how it played out in London. Pageantry and celebration were an important part of the event, and possibly a welcome distraction from the trials and horrors of war, an...
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Editorial
Medical history. 2019 Jan;63(1):1. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2018.66 2019
'If We Are to Believe the Psychologists …': Medicine, Psychoanalysis and Breastfeeding in Britain, 1900-55 [0.03%]
《如果相信心理学家……》：英国1900—1955年的医学、精神分析与母乳喂养政策
Katharina Rowold
Katharina Rowold
In 1942, the British Minister of Health commissioned a report from the newly established Advisory Committee on Mothers and Young Children into 'What can be done to intensify the effort to secure more breast feeding of infants?'. To make the...