Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia's coastal north [0.03%]
天花地理学:澳大利亚北部沿海地区的疫苗接种、边界和土著人民
Chi Chi Huang,Alison Bashford
Chi Chi Huang
Australia's approach to its biosecurity and borders has always been two-pronged - quarantine first, vaccination second. This article asks what this combination looked like in practice by exploring two neglected smallpox vaccination campaign...
Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe - ERRATUM [0.03%]
工作,婚姻与早产:东中欧国家社会主义下的怀孕医学社会化 - 错误!
Kateřina Lišková,Natalia Jarska,Annina Gagyiova et al.
Kateřina Lišková et al.
Published Erratum
Medical history. 2024 Jan;68(1):109. DOI:10.1017/mdh.2024.1 2024
'A sad inheritance of misery': the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England [0.03%]
“悲伤的继承之苦”:十八世纪英国遗传性瘰疬的文化生活
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
This essay argues that scrofula was one of several disorders, including gout, rickets, and venereal disease, that were 'rebranded' as hereditary in response to broader cultural changes that took place during the Restoration and eighteenth c...
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe [0.03%]
工作、婚姻与早产:国家社会主义中欧东部地区的孕期社会医学化
Kateřina Lišková,Natalia Jarska,Annina Gagyiova et al.
Kateřina Lišková et al.
Reproductive health in state socialism is usually viewed as an area in which the broader contexts of women's lives were disregarded. Focusing on expert efforts to reduce premature births, we show that the social aspects of women's lives rec...
The power of the 'universal': caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900-1940 [0.03%]
万能的效力——1900—1940年泰卢固印刷界中传教士关于种姓与酒瘾的医学论述
Tarangini Sriraman
Tarangini Sriraman
This article explores missionary medical discourses in three Telugu journals published in the early twentieth century, to analyse how caste pivoted denunciations of alcohol, especially toddy and arrack, in the Madras Presidency and the Hyde...
Preethi Mariam George,John Bosco Lourdusamy
Preethi Mariam George
The paper examines the introduction of trained female nurses for the British army men in colonial India between 1888 and 1920. It discusses the genesis of the Indian Nursing Service (INS), including the background and negotiations leading u...
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period [0.03%]
战间期法属非洲的梅毒、漂白术与殖民地医学
Guillaume Linte
Guillaume Linte
During the interwar period, France put unprecedented efforts into public health measures targeting the colonised populations of sub-Saharan Africa. This investment in health was seen as crucial to ensuring the renewal of the African labour ...
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose [0.03%]
赫希俄德著作《心脏》的意义、背景与目的
Ryan C Fowler
Ryan C Fowler
Though the Hippocratic text On the Heart has garnered significant attention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from classicists, physicians and historians of medicine alike, no commentary on this important work currently exists. Th...
The 'new era in medicine': John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine [0.03%]
“医学的新纪元”——约翰·雷尔和推动社会医学
John Stewart
John Stewart
John A. Ryle was Britain's first professor of Social Medicine. In the 1930s and 1940s, at the peak of his influence, he was a vigorous proponent of social medicine, then a relatively new, if contested, field. This article examines Ryle's vi...
Sophia Xenophontos
Sophia Xenophontos
Imagery is an overarching feature of Maximus of Tyre's Orations which has never been the subject of systematic investigation. This paper provides a starting point by focusing exclusively on medical imagery, one of the most pervasive and ins...