'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...
Medicamenta: A Virtual Exhibition with Stories of Diseases and Remedies in Antique Books at the University of Padua (Italy) [0.03%]
药剂法:帕多瓦大学(意大利)古老书籍中的疾病与疗法故事虚拟展览
Cecilia Furlani,Eugenio Ragazzi
Cecilia Furlani
'Tolerable Intolerance': Protestantism, Sectarianism and Voluntary Hospitals in Late-nineteenth-century London [0.03%]
《可容忍的不容忍》:十九世纪末伦敦的新教、宗派主义与自愿医院政策
Carmen M Mangion
Carmen M Mangion
This article interrogates the complicated understanding of sectarianism in institutional cultures in late-nineteenth-century England through an examination of the practice of religion in the daily life of hospital wards in voluntary hospita...
Health Planning in 1960s Africa: International Health Organisations and the Post-Colonial State [0.03%]
20世纪60年代的非洲卫生规划:国际健康组织与后殖民国家
John Manton,Martin Gorsky
John Manton
This article explores the programme of national health planning carried out in the 1960s in West and Central Africa by the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...