Sources of madness: investigating the post-colonial history of psychiatry in Niger [0.03%]
尼日尔精神病学的后殖民历史探析：精神疾病的社会根源
Gina Aïtmehdi,Camille Evrard
Gina Aïtmehdi
This article is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the first Nigerien psychiatric service, and diverse aspects of the ordinary functioning of Pavillon E in Niamey (Niger): the organisation of daily life, the position occupied by coop...
The great balancing debate: a history of observing and cultivating herd immunity, 1920-2020 [0.03%]
关于群体免疫的伟大争论：1920至2020年的观察与实践历史
David Robertson
David Robertson
In this article, I examine the history of the concept of herd immunity, beginning with British epidemiologists in the 1920s and ending with the controversy surrounding it during the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that competing historical and c...
The Soviet export of sleep therapy to the Eastern Bloc countries after the Pavlovian session in 1950 [0.03%]
1950年巴甫洛夫会议之后苏联睡眠疗法对东欧国家的输出
Kristina Popova
Kristina Popova
Following the decisions of the scientific session 'For the further flourishing of Pavlov's doctrine' of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR in 1950, important reforms were introduced under political contr...
When hospitals came to Sweden in the eighteenth century: a foreign import with practical difficulties [0.03%]
十八世纪医院来到瑞典：一个难以实用的舶来品
Maria Sjöberg
Maria Sjöberg
Since Foucault's seminal work in the 1960s on the consequences of eighteenth-century discursive shifts in medicine, the establishment of hospitals during this period has often been interpreted as a progressive innovation driven primarily by...
From the traditional account to an 'off-centred history' of the mental hygiene movement: the question of the international (1908-1939) [0.03%]
从传统叙述到精神卫生活动的“非中心化历史”(1908—1939)：国际视角的问题
Hernán Scholten
Hernán Scholten
The best known historical narrative of the international mental hygiene movement among English-speaking audiences locates its origins in the publication of A Mind That Found Itself, the autobiographical account of Clifford Beers (1876-1943)...
The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India [0.03%]
印度的全民心理健康运动：全球精神健康体系的发端
Shilpi Rajpal
Shilpi Rajpal
Developments such as the opening of the first psychiatric outpatient clinic, the emergence of psychiatric social work, the surge of interest in psychology and psychiatry, and the tightening of notions about sexual hygiene, intersected with ...
Bacteriological research and 'puerperal' fever: female health and childbirth in late colonial India [0.03%]
殖民地晚期印度的细菌学研究与“产后发热”：女性健康与生育问题
Kaushalya Bajpayee
Kaushalya Bajpayee
This article explores female healthcare at the crossroads of bacteriology and obstetric research. Puerperal fever or childbed fever manifested as an epidemic since the nineteenth century, and in both Europe and America, it charted a distinc...
Mental illness, forced labour, and colonial biopower in Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria, 1900-1947 [0.03%]
20世纪上半叶尼日利亚卡巴省的精神疾病、强制劳工与殖民生物权力
Unekwu Friday Itodo
Unekwu Friday Itodo
Examining the systemic exploitation of mentally ill individuals, this study focuses on the practices of the British colonial administration in Kabba Province, Northern Nigeria (1900-1947). This research investigates how colonial authorities...
Cold war of strains: the 'Bulgarian' BCG vaccine between Paris, Copenhagen, and Moscow (1940s-1950s) [0.03%]
冷战中的菌株战争：巴黎、哥本哈根和莫斯科之间的“保加利亚”结核杆菌川崎病疫苗（20世纪40年代至50年代）
Milena Angelova
Milena Angelova
This article deals with the tuberculosis policy in Communist Bulgaria from the 1940s to the end of the 1950s. The focus is on the BCG vaccination as the major preventive tool. The article's reconstruction of decision-making draws on evidenc...
Alexander Wragge-Morley
Alexander Wragge-Morley
This article examines the place of habit in the medical thought and practices of 18th-century Britain. Scholars, including Steven Shapin and Phil Withington, have shown that habit was important to the broadly humoral understandings of healt...