The 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will be held May 9-12, 2024 in Kansas City, MO, and KS.
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Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns.
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The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind.
Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95
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This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.
Situating religion and medicine in Asia
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This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains.
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This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.
Forensic cultures in modern Europe
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This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.
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This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts.
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Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.
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This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable.
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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of 'problem publics' and their relationship with public health authorities.
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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.
Alcohol, psychiatry and society
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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health.
Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
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This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered.
Posters, protests, and prescriptions
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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation.
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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.
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In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life.
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This collection examines the representation of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.
Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
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This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context.
Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.
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This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft.
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Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Patient voices in Britain, 1840-1948
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This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration.
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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
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A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focuses on hands-on techniques for working with text.
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Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity.
Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
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This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives.
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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.
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Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world.
African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
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Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe's hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm.
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This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920-70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used to position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice.
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In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement of science and the way it is communicated.
Global health and the new world order
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What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices.
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This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.
Measuring difference, numbering normal
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This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification.
Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
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This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
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A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life.
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How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities.
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Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.
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Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
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Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers.
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Written by Shakespeare's son-in-law John Hall, The Little Book of Cures is a fascinating look into the life of a doctor in seventeenth-century Stratford-upon-Avon.
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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century.
Communicating the history of medicine
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Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities.
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Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century.
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Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families.
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This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier.
Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history.
Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine
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This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus is on medical practitioners and their place in Irish society. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on early modern medicine.
Managing diabetes, managing medicine
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Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine.
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Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable.
Medical societies and scientific culture in nineteenth-century Belgium
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This book analyses how nineteenth-century doctors gathered in medical societies to discuss, evaluate, publish and celebrate their studies. It reveals how the codes of conduct that regulated scientific practice corresponded to the values of social engagement, polite debate and a free press of the urban bourgeoisie.
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One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development.
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The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline.
Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834
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This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare.
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914
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This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean.
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Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life.
Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2015
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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.
Medicine, mobility and the empire
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This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi.
Conserving health in early modern culture
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Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.
Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890
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Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.
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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state.
Reframing health and health policy in Ireland
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This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland's contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy.
Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939
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A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth.
History through material culture
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Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this guide provides clear and practical guidance on how to incorporate the study of objects into historical practice.
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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context.
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This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible.
Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48
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Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians and the public.
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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war
Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79
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Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.
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Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.
War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain
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Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War.
Deafness, community and culture in Britain
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A case study of deaf people's leisure in England within a wider British context and gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community. It questions perceptions of deafness as a disability and shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society.
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Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.
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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.
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Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
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Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa.
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Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work
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Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s
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The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers.
One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854-1953
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This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War.
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Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.
Destigmatising mental illness?
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Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970