Convulsions as a cause of infant death: New insights into its meaning based on evidence from four European cities (1800-1955) [0.03%]
婴儿猝死与抽搐的关系：基于欧洲四座城市（1800-1955）的新的证据和认识
Karin Wienholts,Mayra Murkens,Michail Raftakis et al.
Karin Wienholts et al.
In recent years, the digitisation of historical data containing cause-of-death information has significantly increased. However, these data show considerable variations in diagnostic practices and nosology over time and place. Examining vag...
Romantic racism: A reassessment of Carl Gustav Carus's writings on race and human inequality [0.03%]
浪漫主义种族主义：卡尔·古斯塔夫·卡鲁斯关于种族和人类不平等著作的再评估
Stephan Strunz,Marina Lienert,Florian Bruns
Stephan Strunz
This paper aims to provide the first comprehensive evaluation of Carl Gustav Carus's writings on race and human inequality. We demonstrate that Carus, an eminent nineteenth-century physician emblematic of romantic medicine, was deeply engro...
'[M]ercy is justice…and should not be denied': Lord Dawson, the British medico-legal community, and the Infanticide Act, 1938 [0.03%]
[“仁慈就是正义……不应被剥夺”]: 洛德道森、英国医学法律界及《1938年婴儿杀害罪法》
Kelly-Ann Couzens
Kelly-Ann Couzens
In December 1937, influential physician and politician Lord Dawson of Penn introduced an Infanticide Bill into the House of Lords. Seven months later, following minor amendments, Dawson's Bill passed into law as the Infanticide Act, 1938. T...
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi [0.03%]
适应帝国经济的殖民地营养科学：马拉维的“现场便捷茶盒适配仪”
Cal Biruk
Cal Biruk
In the late 1930s, children in three Malawian villages were subjected to a peculiar test for vitamin A deficiency devised by Dr. Benjamin Platt, director of the Nyasaland Nutrition Survey and a leading colonial nutrition scientist. Platt co...
Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936-2016 [0.03%]
胸腺切除术的手术创新、统计分析及专业文化（1936—2016）
Mark W Weatherall
Mark W Weatherall
This paper provides an account of a specific operation - the removal of the thymus gland (thymectomy) to treat the rare neurological condition myasthenia gravis - from its first performance in 1936, by the American surgeon Alfred Blalock, t...
Immunity for sale: depictions of immunity in British newspaper advertising, 1890-1940 [0.03%]
出售免疫：1890-1940年间英国报纸广告中的免疫描述
Maebh Long
Maebh Long
This article analyses the depictions of immunity and immunological functions employed in proprietary medical advertising in British newspapers between 1890 and 1940. Using marketing copy to gain insights into the ways immunity was presented...
The Expansion of Colonial State Healthcare in Twentieth-Century British Africa [0.03%]
二十世纪英属非洲殖民地国家医疗保健的扩张
Jutta Bolt,Jeanne Cilliers
Jutta Bolt
We chart and assess the scope and utilisation of state-supplied hospital infrastructure in British Africa, c. 1900-60. Using archival sources, we examine the heterogeneity in colonial administrations' investment into curative healthcare pro...
Internationalist Blood: Karel Holubec and the Diffusion of Duran Jordà's Method of Blood Transfusion to Czechoslovakia, 1930s-50s [0.03%]
国际主义者之血：卡雷尔·霍卢贝克与杜兰·霍达血液 transfusion 方法在捷克斯洛伐克的传播（20世纪30-50年代）
Carles Brasó Broggi,Hana Bortlová-Vondráková
Carles Brasó Broggi
In the first months of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish doctor Frederic Duran Jordà developed a new method of blood transfusion which overcame the era of direct arm-to-arm transfusions. While Duran was experimenting in Barcelona and the ...
An 'arsenal for the supply of ammunition for the defence of vaccination': the Jenner Society and anti-anti-vaccinationism in England, 1896-1906 [0.03%]
《作为“支持疫苗防御的武器库”：1896-1906年间英国的Jenner学会与反反疫苗运动》
Matthew L Newsom Kerr
Matthew L Newsom Kerr
Although historians have given close attention to the anti-vaccination movement that gripped late-Victorian England, relatively little scholarship explores how doctors and health officials responded or asks what strategies and assumptions s...