ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Efficiency of Bacterial Vaccines on Mortality during the ‘Spanish’ Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19
David T Roth
pp.: 219–234

Urban Crisis and Epidemic Typhus in Madrid at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Santiago de Miguel Salanova
pp.: 235–262

Doctors and Parents in Children’s Wards: Tel-Hashomer Hospital’s Unrestricted Visitations in 1950s’ Israel
Ella Ayalon and Nurit Kirsh
pp.: 263–283

Caring Under Fire Across Three Continents: The Hadfield-Spears Ambulance, 1941–1945
Laure Humbert
pp.: 284–315

‘The Unseen Enemy Persists’: Delusion, Trauma and the South African War in Australian Asylum Case Notes
Effie Karageorgos
pp.: 316–336

The Republic of Fear: Mental Illness in the Finnish Civil War of 1918
Petteri Pietikainen
pp.: 337–358

Negotiating Shanghai Mercy Hospital: Philanthropy, Business and Control of Madness in Republican China
Jinping Ma
pp.: 359–385

Representations of Western Opium Consumption in China: Informal Empire, Medicine and Modernity, 1840–1930
L J V Sweeney
pp.: 386–408

Opium was of central importance to the expansion of western informal empire in China, and became a cipher for contested questions of moral authority, racial hierarchy, scientific knowledge, civilisation and modernity. Westerners involved in the opium trade were imbued with an ethos of ‘distancing’ from Chinese culture and lifestyles, including the smoking of opium, and it has been assumed that westerners largely adhered to these boundaries. However, a small minority of westerners did smoke opium in China, notably medical professionals and other elites. The nature of, and response to, these transgressions is highly revealing of the era’s shifting conceptions of racial hierarchy, medical science, religious morality and ultimately the advent of modernity.

BOOK REVIEWS

Ruth J. Salter, Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England
Claire Carrothers
pp.: 409–410

Nicole Archambeau, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Claire Weeda
pp.: 410–411

Ronald S. Coddington. Faces of Civil War Nurses
Jane E Schultz
pp.: 412–414

Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914
Anna Greenwood
pp.: 414–415

McGrath, Larry Sommer, Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France
John Warne Monroe
pp.: 415–417

Samuël Coghe, Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
Cristiana Bastos
pp.: 417–418

Alexandre Sumpf, The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921
Michael Robinson
pp.: 418–419

Ericka Dyck and Maureen Lux, Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s
Christabelle Sethna
pp.: 419–421

Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
Emer Lucey
pp.: 421–422

Peter Barham, Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society
Vicky Long
pp.: 422–424

Allan V. Horwitz, DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible
Jason Schnittker
pp.: 424–425

Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffey, Making Disability Modern: Design Histories
Aimi Hamraie
pp.: 425–427

Judith Farquhar, A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine
Howard Chiang
pp.: 427–429

Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives
Ylva Söderfeldt
pp.: 429–430

Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree and Fay Bound Alberti (Eds), Germs and Governance: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control
Scott H Podolsky
pp.: 430–432