Medical History

Papers
(The median citation count of Medical History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Family Planning Advice in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s–80s: Local and Transnational Exchanges15
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)14
Contraception and Catholicism in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on Expert, Activist and Intimate Practices11
The Contraceptive Pill in Irelandc.1964–79: Activism, Women and Patient–Doctor Relationships6
Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history4
The ‘Converted Unbelievers’: Catholics in Family Planning in French-Speaking Belgium (1947–73)4
‘There Are No Other Options?’: Rwandan Gender Norms and Family Planning in Historical Perspective4
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)4
Reasonable Grounds? The Delayed Introduction of MMR Vaccine in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1977–873
Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India3
Disease in a Debt Crisis: Financing Global Health, Development and AIDS between WHO and World Bank, 1978–873
Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–19602
‘A transverse scar on the neck’ – psychosomatic approach in the differential diagnosis and surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism in post-war Finland2
Radium traffic: radiation, science and spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan2
Tibetan medicine with respect to increased attention to the east in Russian society: The second half of the nineteenth century to early twentieth century2
The Amphibious Nature of AIDS Activism: Medical Professionals and Gay and Lesbian Communities in Norway, 1975–872
Between trust and violence: medical encounters under Japanese military occupation during the War in China (1937–1945)2
In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague2
Medical Bacteriology and Medical Genetics, 1880–1940: A Call for Synthesis2
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo2
‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia1
Warfare and the launch of medical reform in Britain, 1793–18111
Falling from horses: medical controversy in early eighteenth-century England1
Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant1
The Degenerating Sex: Female Sterilisation, Medical Authority and Racial Purity in Catholic Brazil1
Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: the management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970)1
Negotiating South–South cooperation for mental health: the World Health Organization and the African Mental Health Action Group, 1970s–90s1
Psychiatry, psychology and homosexual prisoners in New Zealand, 1910–19601
Attending the birth: competition for obstetrical training by medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France1
The skeletal effects of congenital syphilis: the case of Parrot’s bones1
Lust for life: coping with tuberculosis in late nineteenth-century Europe1
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire1
Progressive Entanglements? Activity Profiles, Responsibilities and Interactions of Dentists at Auschwitz. The Example of 2nd SS Dentist Willi Schatz1
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–20131
Negotiating medical services in the Madras Presidency: the subordinate perspectives (1882–1935)1
Logic, geometry and visualisation of the body in Acquapendente’s rediscovered Methodus anatomica (1579)1
A great race of drinkers? Irish interpretations of alcoholism and drinking stereotypes, 1945–19751
Fluid deafness: earwax and hardness of hearing in early modern Europe1
Cholera, British seamen and maritime anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’1
Health care and the spread of medical knowledge in the Portuguese empire, particularly the Estado da Índia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)1
Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan1
The making of the ‘useless and pathological’ uterus in Taiwan, 1960s to 1990s1
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England1
Alisha Rankin, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp. 312, $35, paperback, ISBN: 978022674480
Beneath the skin: method and perception in Hippocratic medicine0
Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez, The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. vii + 262, [$55], hardback, ISBN: 97808229468540
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India: 1820–1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 346, £78.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781107172364.0
Anne Pollock, Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge and Place in South African Drug Discovery (Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 191, £18.33, paperback, ISBN: 978-022662910
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–650
Zhou Xun, The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949–1983 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), pp. iv+369, $37.95, paperback, ISBN: 9780228001942.0
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Adam J. Davis, The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce and the Rise of the Hospital (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019), pp. xv + 317, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781501742100
Gavin Weightman, The Great Inoculator. The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and His Medical Revolution (New Haven, NJ, and London: Yale University Press, 2020), pp. xv + 188, £16.99, hardback, ISBN: 97800
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Film Review: Walking in the Footsteps of Others0
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials0
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Shilpi Rajpal, Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xiv + 295, ₹1295, hardback, ISBN: 0-19-01280
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Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses, Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. 296, $55, hardcover, ISBN: 970
A history of thalidomide in India0
Frederick W. Gibbs, Poison, Medicine and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 313, $144.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781472420398.0
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The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975–2022)0
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Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–20220
Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. 304, $40.00 (USD), paperback, ISBN: 9780226558240.0
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges0
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With all best wishes for the future0
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period0
Robin W. Scheffler, A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press2019), pp. 379, $40.00, paperback, 0
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Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union0
Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 408, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 970
Alistair Ritch, Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914 (Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2019), pp. 298, £95, hardback, ISBN: 9781580469753.0
On Smell and Olfaction: Three Coordinated Exhibitions in Lausanne, Switzerland0
Shinjini Das, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 304, £75, hardback, ISBN: 9781108420624.0
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–18860
The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 19530
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Leonard D. Smith, Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane (Gewerbestrasse, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. xix + 323, £70.00/$90.00, ebook, ISBN: 9783030
The South American medical communities in the genesis of the tropical medicine: construction and circulation of knowledge on American leishmaniasis in the beginning of the twentieth century0
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A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate0
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Nadja Durbach, Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. vii + 361, £34.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108483834.0
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Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe0
Matthew J. Crawford and Joseph M. Gabriel (eds), Drugs on the Page. Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. x +0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 212, £75.00, hardback/e-book, ISBN: 9781108476362/9781108754361.0
Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller (eds), Anatomy of the Medical Image: Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today (Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2021), pp0
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‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain0
Joris Vandendriessche, Medical Societies and Scientific Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 336, £80, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3320-5.0
Robert A. Voeks, The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative (Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. xii + 321, $43.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780226547718978.0
Chris Mounsey, Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019), pp. vii + 330, $79.50, hardback, ISBN: 9780813943312.0
Alastair Compston, All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity. A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621–1675 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvi + 805, £99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9780198795391.0
Josep L. Barona, Nutritional Policies and International Diplomacy: The Impact of Tadasu Saiki and the Imperial State Institute of Nutrition (Tokyo, 1916–1945) (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2021), pp. 239, $40
Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951–610
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)0
Pain, medicine and the monitoring of war violence: the case of rifle bullets (1868–1918)0
Franco-British responses to chemical warfare 1915–8, with special reference to the medical services, casualty statistics and the threat to civilians0
Sethina Watson, On Hospitals: Welfare, Law and Christianity in Western Europe, 400–1320 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020). 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-884753-3.0
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Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine, The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xviii + 342, £90, hardback, ISBN: 970
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England0
Mie Nakachi, Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xi + 328, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780190635138.0
Ole J. Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, 2nd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), pp. 1058, £ 143, hardback, ISBN: 9781783275168.0
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Aro Velmet, Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology & Politics in France, Its Colonies, & the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xiv + 306, $78.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780190072827.0
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–19400
Samuel K., Jr. Cohn, Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. x + 656, £22.99, hardback, ISBN: 9780198819660.0
Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown, and Elizabeth Fee, The World Health Organization: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 388, £26.99, paperback, ISBN: 9781108728843.0
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Charles Allan McCoy, Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), pp. 224, $28.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781625345073.0
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Physicians imprisoned in Franco Spain’s Miranda de Ebro “Campo de Concentración”0
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 258, $99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108491259.0
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Paulo Drinot, The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xv + 328, $31.99, paperback, ISBN: 9781108717281.0
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Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–19110
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Su Jing, 西医来华十记 [Ten Essays on Western Medicine in China] (Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2020), pp. vi + 380, ¥68.00, hardback, ISBN: 9787101142501.0
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine0
John Henderson, Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019), pp. 363, £30.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780300196344.0
Ellen N. La Motte, The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I, ed. by Cynthia Wachtell (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), pp. x + 209, $18.50, paperback, I0
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P.N. Singer and Philip J. van de Eijk (eds and trans), Galen: Works on Human Nature. Volume 1: Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 269, hardback, ISBN0
Wendy Kline, Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xi + 243, Updf, ISBN: 9780190232528.0
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia0
Sasha Mullally and David Wright, Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare (Montreal, Kingston, London & Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), pp. 360, $0
Emily Kesling, Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp. xii + 233, £60, hardback, ISBN: 9781843845492.0
Hans Pols, Nurturing Indonesia, Medicine and Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. xx + 285, £41.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781108424578.0
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Xiaoping Fang, China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. 312, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780822946625).0
Howard Phillips, In a Time of Plague: Memories of the ‘Spanish’ Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 20180
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Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely0
Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century0
Simon Shorvon and Alastair Compston, with contributions by Andrew Lees, Michael J. Clark and Martin Rossor, Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology (Cambridge: 0
Sunil Pandya, Medical Education in Western India: Grant Medical College and Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy’s Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019), pp. xxiv+561, £70.99, hardbac0
Harold J. Cook, ed., Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age (Leiden: Brill; Boston, MA: Rodopi, 2020), pp. xii + 214, $144.00, hardback, ISBN: 9789004362741.0
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India0
Mobilising through vaccination: the case of polio in France (1950–60s)0
Pierre-Yves Donzé, Medtech. The Formation and Growth of a Global Industry, 1960–2020 (Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), pp. 230, £99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9789811671739.0
Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (New York: Little, Brown and Company2018), pp. 384, $11.99, hardback, ISBN: 9780316551281. - Barry Meier, Pain Killer:0
Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse0
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose0
Pierre-Yves Donzé, Making Medicine a Business. X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895–1945 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 199 + xiv,0
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Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong and Christine von Oertzen (eds.), Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. ix + 310, $55.000
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Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother (Boston: Beacon Press, 2021), pp. 1+259, $28.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780807025628.0
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM0
Donald Fithian Stevens, Mexico in the Time of Cholera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. ix + 315, $34.85, paperback, ISBN: 9780826360557.0
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations0
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