Medical History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
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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
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: 9780198795391.7
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‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain3
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
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
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–19402
Mobilising through vaccination: the case of polio in France (1950–60s)2
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Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period2
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
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
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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
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose1
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
Beneath the skin: method and perception in Hippocratic medicine1
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
‘Suffering for the Sins of Others’: Lucius D. Bulkley, Syphilis Insontium, and Disease Destigmatisation in the Progressive Era United States1
The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975–2022)1
Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance mūmiyāʾ (pitch-asphalt) and its medicinal uses in Byzantium1
Wendy Kline, Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xi + 243, Updf, ISBN: 9780190232528.1
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
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession1
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
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Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–400
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Franco-British responses to chemical warfare 1915–8, with special reference to the medical services, casualty statistics and the threat to civilians0
With all best wishes for the future0
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)0
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
A history of thalidomide in India0
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Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex0
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
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India0
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Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India0
Cholera, British seamen and maritime anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’0
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Culpeper’s herbal The English Physitian and its debt to apothecary John Parkinson0
Patrick Chiu, A History of Western Pharmacy in China (Singapore: Springer, 2023), pp. xxxii+219, EUR37.99, hardback, ISBN:9789819986347.0
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo0
Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–15980
Warfare and the launch of medical reform in Britain, 1793–18110
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
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Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan0
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–19520
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–650
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
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 god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons0
Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse0
Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation0
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–20130
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire0
Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources0
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
The first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877–80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius0
Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–19600
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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
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
A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate0
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)0
‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia0
In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague0
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Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations0
Negotiating medical services in the Madras Presidency: the subordinate perspectives (1882–1935)0
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–20220
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
Logic, geometry and visualisation of the body in Acquapendente’s rediscovered Methodus anatomica (1579)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
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north0
The Medical and Physical Journal and the construction of medical journalism in Britain, 1733–18030
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)0
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.0
Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century0
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–18860
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–19040
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)0
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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
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Physicians imprisoned in Franco Spain’s Miranda de Ebro “Campo de Concentración”0
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
Doctors in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Taiwan in the Second World War and their personal accounts of captivity0
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Ole J. Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, 2nd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), pp. 1058, £ 143, hardback, ISBN: 9781783275168.0
‘A transverse scar on the neck’ – psychosomatic approach in the differential diagnosis and surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism in post-war Finland0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe0
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM0
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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
William Bynum Prize 2023: Highly Commended Overcoming Childlessness: Narratives of Conception in Early Modern North India0
The poet Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523) and the French disease: the records and human remains of a probable yaws patient0
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia0
Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: the management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970)0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe – ERRATUM0
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
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The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 19530
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
Negotiating South–South cooperation for mental health: the World Health Organization and the African Mental Health Action Group, 1970s–90s0
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Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England0
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials0
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
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
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine0
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges0
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots0
Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant0
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Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM0
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–18370
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s0
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When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors0
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
Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools0
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
‘Microcosm of the Pacific’: Colonial encounters at the Central Medical School in Fiji0
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
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Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England0
Attending the birth: competition for obstetrical training by medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France0
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union0
‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England0
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
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
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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
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Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history0
An ‘arsenal for the supply of ammunition for the defence of vaccination’: the Jenner Society and anti-anti-vaccinationism in England, 1896–19060
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