Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
Original Articles
‘A Double Care’: Prayer as Therapy in Early Modern England Sophie Mann
‘To Be Shut Up’: New Evidence for the Development of Quarantine Regulations in Early-Tudor England Euan C Roger
Medical Merchandising and Legal Procedure in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Case of Petroleum as Imported Medicine border Ted Lars Lennart Bergman
Treating Hernias in Ottoman Crete (c. 1670–1760): The Legal Imprint of a Medical Procedure Antonis Anastasopoulos; Christos Kyriakopoulos
Medicalised Battlefields: The Evolution of Military Medical Care and the ‘Medic’ in Japan Reut Harari
Clinical practices: Epilepsy at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London, from 1860 to 1870 Alejandra Vieyra; Ana Barahona
The Wife as Family Physician: Making and Moving a Modern Health Epistemology for Women Corinna Treitel
‘Death Germs Through the Post’: Postal Pathology and Workplace Experiences of Disease in Britain, c.1895–1935 Laura Newman
The ‘Dog Doctors’ of Edwardian London: Elite Canine Veterinary Care in the Early Twentieth Century border Alison Skipper
Differences in Health: The Influence of Gender and Institutional Settings on Sickness Claims in Gothenburg, Sweden (1898–1950) border Helene Castenbrandt ; Barbara Ana Revuelta-Eugercios; Kjell Torén
Helping Troubled Children and Cultivating the Race: The Mental Hygienic Guidance Centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, 1930s–1950s Sophy Bergenheim
Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) border Philip Kirby
No Man’s Land? Gendering Contraception in Family Planning Advice Literature in State-Socialist Poland (1950s–1980s) border Agata Ignaciuk
The Curious Case of Aleksandar Milivojević: The Donja Toponica Hospital and Mental Health in Socialist Yugoslavia Ivan Simic
Sources and Resources
Sources and Resources Affidavits in Proceedings in Lunacy, 1719–1733: The Court of Chancery and the Fate of Lunatics in the Long Eighteenth Century Ruth Paley
Book Reviews
Bruce T. Moran, Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life. Jole Shackelford
Hannah Newton, Misery to Mirth: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England Michael Stolberg
John Henderson, Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City Jane Stevens Crawshaw
Emily Cock, Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture Paolo Savoia
Hannah Murphy, A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg Annemarie Kinzelbach
Alex Chase-Levenson, The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860 Marina Inì
Wendy Gonaver, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 268. $32.95. ISBN 978 1 4696 4844 6 Christienna Fryar
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Cannabis David A Guba, Jr.
Leo van Bergen, The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950. On Humanitarianism and Colonialism Sebastiaan Broere
Benjamin Kingsbury, The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony. Violeta Gilabert
Michael E. Staub, The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 232. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-4359-5 Lundy Braun
David Luesink, William H. Schneider and Zhang Daqing (eds), China and the Globalization of Biomedicine. Joshua A Hubbard
Samuel K. Cohn Jr., Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS Flurin Condrau
Simon Szreter (ed.), The Hidden Affliction: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History Roger Davidson