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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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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: 9720
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession7
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: 9780198795391.5
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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, $3
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–19402
‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain2
Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely2
Pain, medicine and the monitoring of war violence: the case of rifle bullets (1868–1918)2
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, $55.002
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: 97802
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 258, $99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108491259.2
Mobilising through vaccination: the case of polio in France (1950–60s)2
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Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association’s (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936–19671
John Rhodes, How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp. xiv + 170, $15.00, paperback, ISBN: 13: 978-0-226-792511
Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance mūmiyāʾ (pitch-asphalt) and its medicinal uses in Byzantium1
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: 9780226558240.1
Wendy Kline, Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xi + 243, Updf, ISBN: 9780190232528.1
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period1
The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975–2022)1
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose1
Beneath the skin: method and perception in Hippocratic medicine1
Sethina Watson, On Hospitals: Welfare, Law and Christianity in Western Europe, 400–1320 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020). 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-884753-3.1
Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951–611
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892–19311
Fluid deafness: earwax and hardness of hearing in early modern Europe1
Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, eds., Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness (Durham, NC., and London: Duke University Press, 2024), pp. 360, £25.00, PB, ISBN: 9781478030348.1
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: 9780190635138.1
Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–19111
‘Suffering for the Sins of Others’: Lucius D. Bulkley, Syphilis Insontium, and Disease Destigmatisation in the Progressive Era United States1
‘The god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons0
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In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague0
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)0
Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources0
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
The Medical and Physical Journal and the construction of medical journalism in Britain, 1733–18030
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges0
Franco-British responses to chemical warfare 1915–8, with special reference to the medical services, casualty statistics and the threat to civilians0
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England0
Warfare and the launch of medical reform in Britain, 1793–18110
‘Microcosm of the Pacific’: Colonial encounters at the Central Medical School in Fiji0
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The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 19530
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‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia0
Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–400
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
Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan0
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)0
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
Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: the management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970)0
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Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe – ERRATUM0
Physicians imprisoned in Franco Spain’s Miranda de Ebro “Campo de Concentración”0
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
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Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century0
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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
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations0
Negotiating medical services in the Madras Presidency: the subordinate perspectives (1882–1935)0
‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England0
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM0
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Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia0
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
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots0
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
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
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine0
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
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Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–15980
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north0
‘A transverse scar on the neck’ – psychosomatic approach in the differential diagnosis and surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism in post-war Finland0
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–20220
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
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–19520
Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
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
Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London. Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1814 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp.256, £43.74, hardback, ISBN: 08229460
Patrick Chiu, A History of Western Pharmacy in China (Singapore: Springer, 2023), pp. xxxii+219, EUR37.99, hardback, ISBN:9789819986347.0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe0
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
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
Anthony Cerulli, The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Oakland: The University of California Press, 2022), pp. xiv+221, '2,700.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-520-38354-8.0
Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history0
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Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–19600
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–20130
Charmaine Robson, Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. VIII + 265, £79.50, eBook, ISBN: 978-3-031-05796-00
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union0
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‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire0
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
Ole J. Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, 2nd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), pp. 1058, £ 143, hardback, ISBN: 9781783275168.0
When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors0
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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
Logic, geometry and visualisation of the body in Acquapendente’s rediscovered Methodus anatomica (1579)0
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Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM0
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Culpeper’s herbal The English Physitian and its debt to apothecary John Parkinson0
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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
Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation0
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England0
Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools0
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s0
A history of thalidomide in India0
Cholera, British seamen and maritime anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’0
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Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–18370
With all best wishes for the future0
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–650
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex0
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)0
A Victorian nature cure philosophy as a reconciliation of Romantic Naturalism and laboratory medicine: the case of E.W. Lane’s (1823–89) hygienic medicine0
Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India0
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Delia Gavrus and Susan Lamb (eds), Transforming Medical Education. Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning, and Belonging in Medicine. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 200
The first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877–80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius0
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Negotiating South–South cooperation for mental health: the World Health Organization and the African Mental Health Action Group, 1970s–90s0
Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022), pp. xiv + 250, paperback, ISBN 978-146-9666-570.0
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Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse0
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
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials0
Attending the birth: competition for obstetrical training by medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France0
Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant0
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–19040
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
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–18860
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo0
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)0
A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate0
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