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.
Second Opinion
Problems of Progress: Modernity and Writing the Social History of Medicine Keir Waddington
Original Articles
Revealing Secrets: Talismans, Healthcare and the Market of the Occult in Early Twentieth-century China Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
Integrating Parasite Eradication with Family Planning: The Colonial Legacy in Post-War Medical Cooperation in East Asia border Aya Homei; John P DiMoia
Stamping Out the ‘Nation-Ruining Disease’: Anti-Tuberculosis Campaigns in US-Occupied Okinawa Asako Masubuchi
Miscarriage, False Conceptions, and Other Lumps: Women’s Pregnancy Loss in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England Paige Donaghy
Materiality, Quarantine and Contagion in the Early Modern Mediterranean Marina Inì
The Implementation of the Soviet Healthcare Model in ‘People’s Democracy’ Countries—the Case of Post-war Poland (1944–1953) Urszula Kozłowska; Tomasz Sikorski
Becoming the North Karelia Project: The Shaping of an Iconic Community Health Intervention in Finland (1970–1977) Mikko Jauho
‘My Husband … is an Authentic Psychopath’: Spanish Civil War Veterans, Mental Illness and the Francoist Regime Stephanie Wright
Public Nutrition Policies and their Influence on School Feeding: The Spanish Experience in the Twentieth Century Eva María Trescastro-López
Between Emotional Involvement and Professional Detachment: The Challenges of Nursing in Dutch Mental Institutions (1880–1980) Harry Oosterhuis; Cecile Aan de Stegge
The Politics of Labels: Imperial Categorisations and the Marginalisation of Ethnomedicine in Nigeria during the Twentieth Century Ogechukwu E Williams
Love Carefully and Without ‘Over-bearing Fears’: The Persuasive Power of Authenticity in Late 1980s British AIDS Education Material for Adolescents border Hannah J Elizabeth
Medicating Anaesthesiology: Pharmaceutical Change, Specialisation and Healthcare Reform in Post-War Britain Lucas M Mueller
Book Reviews
Susan North, Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England Hannah Newton
Ben Mutschler, The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England Jeanne Abrams
Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon (eds), Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance Carole Levin
Leonard Smith, Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane Alice Mauger
Andreas Mayer, The Science of Walking: Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century Elizabeth A Williams
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam Martha Lincoln
Violetta Hionidou, Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830–1967: Medicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture Andrew Hinde
Michael Robinson, Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918–39: A Difficult Homecoming Greta Jones
John Marsh, The Emotional Life of the Great Depression Susan Matt
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s Robert Deam Tobin
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil Barbara Weinstein
David Clark, Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy Harold Braswell
Emily K. Abel, Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People and Their Families David Clark
Dan Royles, To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS Susan M Chambre
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché Mark Jackson
Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Ann M. Lovell and Laurent Pordié (eds), Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance Marcos Cueto
Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and ImpactCommunicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact Jacob Steere-Williams
Helen Kang, Medicine and Morality: Crises in the History of a Profession Tracey L Adams