Therapies crossing borders in European state socialism, 1950-1990. Introduction to the special issue [0.03%]
1950-1990年欧洲社会主义国家的跨境治疗——特刊导言
Alexa Geisthövel,Daniela Koleva
Alexa Geisthövel
The article introduces the special issue by mapping the field of pertinent scholarship and situating the articles with regard to the special angles and contributions they have to offer. As our five articles present case studies from Bulgari...
In defence of medical judgement: medicalisation strategies in the daily life of the Lima Asylum in the last third of the 19th century [0.03%]
捍卫医学判断：19世纪后半叶利马上流精神病院日常生活中的医学化策略
Elias Amaya Nuñez
Elias Amaya Nuñez
This article analyzes the medicalisation strategies deployed by Peruvian alienists in the daily life of the Lima Asylum during the last third of the 19th century. Special attention is given to the process of hospitalisation of the insane in...
From plaques to pocks: carrying over bacteriophage assay techniques to the study of influenza and other animal viruses [0.03%]
从噬菌斑到蚀斑：将噬菌体测定技术应用于流感和其他动物病毒的研究
Neeraja Sankaran
Neeraja Sankaran
This article assesses the impact of the discovery of bacteriophages, which emerged from an investigation into a 1915 outbreak of bacillary dysentery in France, on influenza virus research. Specifically, it details the way in which the phage...
From radiology to a world-in-crisis: Rolf Sievert and the re-orientation of the International Commission on Radiation Protection in the post-war period [0.03%]
从放射学转向世界危机：罗尔夫·西韦特和战后国际辐射防护委员会的重新定向
Aske Hennelund Nielsen
Aske Hennelund Nielsen
With this paper, I suggest focusing on diplo-scientific actors as a fruitful approach to study how certain actors have helped to shape international organisations through their diplomatic activities and scientific practices. Using the examp...
Xinyue Wang,Jingjing Su
Xinyue Wang
This article examines the evolution of breastfeeding practices in twentieth-century China, focusing on the complex interplay between medical knowledge, state policies and social transformation. This study demonstrates how medical recommenda...
Different aspirations: medicine, activism and uterine vacuum aspiration technology in Spain (1960s-1980s) [0.03%]
各异的追求：西班牙的医学、活动与子宫真空吸引技术（20世纪六十年代至八十年代）
María Mundi-López,Agata Ignaciuk
María Mundi-López
In this article we trace a biography of vacuum aspiration in Spain between the 1960s and 1980s. Analysing the local but transnationally connected history of vacuum aspiration during late Francoism and the democratic transition, we argue tha...
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott's British National Antarctic expedition, 1901-1904 - CORRIGENDUM [0.03%]
关于罗伯特·斯科特南极远征（1901—1904）途中医学界对营养、清洁空气和运动的论争及极地卫生问题——勘误表
Edward Armston-Sheret
Edward Armston-Sheret
Published Erratum
Medical history. 2025 Sep 15:1. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2025.10033 2025
Nick Hopwood
Nick Hopwood
Ghostwriting autobiographies has gained so high a profile that novels and films focus on the ghost. To deepen understanding of such collaborations in science and medicine, this article reconstructs the making of A Matter of Life (1980), 'th...
The treatment of alcoholism that should not exist: Addiction, East German doctors, and Western methods in the German Democratic Republic [0.03%]
本不应存在的酒瘾疗法：东德医生、西德方法以及德国民主共和国的戒瘾措施
Markus Wahl
Markus Wahl
Addiction was considered 'alien to Socialism'. At least, that was the narrative upheld by the socialist East German state, which thus followed the traditional argumentation of socialist and social democratic movements since the turn of the ...
'At least our pituitaries will see the world': Pituitary gland export from communist Bulgaria [0.03%]
至少我们的垂体会看到世界：共产主义保加利亚的垂体出口
Daniela Koleva
Daniela Koleva
The article focuses on the export of cadaveric pituitary glands from communist Bulgaria in the 1980s, used for the production of human growth hormone. The case is explored in the broader context of practices and transnational networks for t...