Cutting the Flesh: Surgery, Autopsy and Cannibalism in the Belgian Congo [0.03%]
切割皮肤:比利时殖民统治下的刚果外科手术、解剖与食人行为
Sokhieng Au
Sokhieng Au
Within the colonial setting of the Belgian Congo, the process of cutting the body, whether living or dead, lent itself to conflation with cannibalism and other fantastic consumption stories by both Congolese and Belgian observers. In part t...
Between Securitisation and Neglect: Managing Ebola at the Borders of Global Health [0.03%]
超越安全与忽视之间:埃博拉疫情下的全球卫生治理及其边界问题
Mark Honigsbaum
Mark Honigsbaum
In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) was widely criticised for failing to anticipate that an outbreak of Ebola in a remote forested region of south-eastern Guinea would trigger a public health emergency of international concern (phei...
Surviving the Lunacy Act of 1890: English Psychiatrists and Professional Development during the Early Twentieth Century [0.03%]
《1890年精神法案下的幸存者:20世纪初英国精神病学家的专业发展》
Akinobu Takabayashi
Akinobu Takabayashi
In recent decades, historians of English psychiatry have shifted their major concerns away from asylums and psychiatrists in the nineteenth century. This is also seen in the studies of twentieth-century psychiatry where historians have deba...
Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter's Hospital, Bristol, 1698-1861 [0.03%]
穷人院里的疯人病区——布里斯托圣彼得医院(1698—1861)
Leonard Smith
Leonard Smith
In recent years there has been growing acknowledgement of the place of workhouses within the range of institutional provision for mentally disordered people in nineteenth-century England. This article explores the situation in Bristol, wher...
Interweaving Ideas and Patchwork Programmes: Nutrition Projects in Colonial Fiji, 1945-60 [0.03%]
交织的理念与拼凑的项目(1945—1960年殖民地斐济的营养项目)
Sarah Clare Hartley
Sarah Clare Hartley
The influence of a range of actors is discernible in nutrition projects during the period after the Second World War in the South Pacific. Influences include: international trends in nutritional science, changing ideas within the British es...
'They Shall See His Face': Blindness in British India, 1850-1950 [0.03%]
“他们要见他的面”:1850至1950年的英国印度盲人问题
Aparna Nair
Aparna Nair
This paper explores the social, medical, institutional and enumerative histories of blindness in British India from 1850 to 1950. It begins by tracing the contours and causes of blindness using census records, and then outlines how colonial...
Frederick W Gibbs
Frederick W Gibbs
Helen MacDonald
Helen MacDonald
How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce 'extinct' the patients from whom 'spare par...
Lara Rzesnitzek,Sascha Lang
Lara Rzesnitzek
The history of 'electroshock therapy' (now known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)) in Europe in the Third Reich is still a neglected chapter in medical history. Since Thomas Szasz's 'From the Slaughterhouse to the Madhouse', prejudices ha...
Yesterday's Doctors: The Human Aspects of Medical Education in Britain, 1957-93 [0.03%]
英国医学教育的人文面向(1957-1993)
Victoria Bates
Victoria Bates
In the wake of the Second World War there was a movement to counterbalance the apparently increasingly technical nature of medical education. These reforms sought a more holistic model of care and to put people - rather than diseases - back...