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Michael Robinson
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans...
March 21, 2024: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38325345/the-religious-dimensions-of-epidemic-disease-cholera-the-ghost-rite-and-missionary-medicine-in-nineteenth-century-korea
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Shin Kwon Kim
One of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history was the repeated spread of cholera in the nineteenth century. In spite of its historical significance, few scholars have studied cholera's influence in East Asia. This paper illustrates how cholera was considered, conceptualized, and treated by Korean people prior to contact with North American medical missionaries in 1885. In particular, the article compares the government-ordered public health measures during the Joseon dynasty, focusing on the "ghost rite" performed during outbreaks of epidemic disease with the work of medical missionaries in the late nineteenth century...
February 7, 2024: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38233214/malarial-encounters-and-shifting-racial-recruitment-strategies-by-the-basel-mission-on-the-gold-coast-1828-1849
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Adam Mohr
In the early- to mid-nineteenth century, European mortality rates in West Africa were the highest in the world. Mortality estimates included nine missionaries sent from the Basel Mission (established in what is now Switzerland) to the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), eight of whom died between 1828 and 1840, mostly from "fevers." In response to high mortality rates, the Basel Mission recruited several Afro-West Indians to work as Christian missionaries in the Gold Coast, mostly based on the presumption that individuals of African descent would better survive the environment...
January 17, 2024: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38175795/exploring-racial-disparities-in-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-a-case-study-of-durham-north-carolina
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Mallory Bryant, Jeffrey Baker
The paradox of excess mortality among White Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic has long puzzled historians and scientists. Recent scholarship has suggested that this disparity was not true for the country as a whole, but rather regional variation was observed. The factors influencing these disparities remain speculative. A case study was conducted of Durham, North Carolina, a city known nationally for the achievements of its Black middle class, to further explore these themes relying on numerous sources including newspapers and death certificates...
January 4, 2024: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38170864/the-nature-and-purpose-of-public-dissections-in-early-modern-london
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Jacob Murel
Modern scholarship on the early modern European anatomy theater has long argued that public dissections were theatrical, carnivalesque affairs characterized by viewers' fascination with the material exposure of the dissected body. This essay builds from the recent work on early modern public dissections to argue against such monolithic presentations of the early modern anatomy. To this end, the essay examines three principal source materials connected with public dissections in early modern London to more specifically argue that public dissections in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London were solemn events focused on promoting the status of London's barber-surgeons' guild, the Royal College of Physicians, and the education and knowledge of their respective members...
January 3, 2024: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38104253/-conscientious-guardian-vs-commercialized-jungle-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-design-in-the-postwar-united-states
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Lucas Richert, Gabriel Lake Carter
Pharmacists and pharmacies are key drivers in the American marketplace. They serve as an endpoint of the pharmaceutical supply chain and are the dispensers of a range of consumer goods, some nonthreatening and others potentially harmful to public health. In adding pharmacies to the roster of consumerist locales in the postwar period, scholars might draw even deeper connections about the transformation of health, corporate medicine, and American economic power. To understand the interface of consumerism, corporatism, and health in postwar America, this article holds the postwar pharmacy as a key site of commodity exchange and business and positions it within the larger American firmament, paying attention to the design of pharmacies...
December 16, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38006351/-a-vile-custom-the-strange-career-of-william-osler-s-professional-notes
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Jenna Healey
In 1882, William Osler wrote "Professional Notes among the Indian Tribes about Great Slave Lake, NWT," a fantastical essay that purportedly described the sexual and obstetric customs of Indigenous peoples residing in the Canadian Northwest. Originally prepared as a prank, "Professional Notes," along with Osler's alter ego Egerton Yorrick Davis, became an elaborate inside joke that circulated widely among the medical elite for decades after Osler's death. In this essay, I trace the history and afterlife of "Professional Notes," considering both the colonial context of its creation as well as the reasons for its enduring popularity...
November 25, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37951715/pathologizing-pathos-suffering-technocentrism-and-law-in-twentieth-century-american-medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Charlotte Duffee
In the second half of the twentieth century, concerns about problems in the doctor-patient relationship gave way to a new medical discourse on suffering, owed largely to the work of American physician Eric Cassell. This article tracks the development of his theory of suffering and its global success in transforming tragic medical experiences into diagnosable clinical entities. Beginning with his intellectual development in the 1960s, this article traces Cassell's initial interest in suffering first to his early research on truth-telling and autonomy, followed by his pioneering work in bioethics...
November 10, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37950908/an-ill-bred-culture-of-experimentation-malaria-therapy-and-race-in-the-united-states-public-health-service-laboratory-at-the-south-carolina-state-hospital-1932-1952
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Bradford Charles Pelletier
While most are aware of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments in which African American syphilis patients went untreated, less is known about experiments with malaria fever therapy conducted upon syphilis patients during the same period by the Unites States Public Health Service at the Williams Laboratory on the grounds of the South Carolina State Hospital (SCSH) in Columbia, SC. Over a twenty-year period, physicians maintained patients as malaria reservoirs for patient-to-patient inoculation and subjected patients to extreme fevers and thousands upon thousands of insect bites as part of a program in which one disease was tested as therapy for another...
November 10, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37847792/notes-from-the-front-the-casebook-of-a-renaissance-hospital-surgeon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sharon Strocchia
This essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking immediate assistance and the situations that brought them there; the treatments used to achieve short-term "cures"; and the clinical experiences of hospital surgeons who served as frontline healers...
October 17, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37837654/operative-innovation-and-surgical-conservatism-in-twentieth-century-ulcer-surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christopher Crenner
Peptic ulcers were a common, and seemingly intractable, problem for surgeons in the US through the early twentieth century. Initial surgical efforts reduced operative mortality and achieved short term successes but failed to establish a definitive solution. The flawed successes of early ulcer surgery drove sustained effort to improve, producing a stream of novel operations over the decades. An examination of the history of ulcer surgery confirms the recent observation that surgical operations of this period were malleable entities subject to constant tinkering and repurposing...
October 14, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37145418/introduction-healthcare-practitioners-emotions-and-the-politics-of-well-being-in-twentieth-century-anglo-america
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jacob D Moses, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Samuel V Schotland
From the stress of burnout to the gratification of camaraderie, medicine is suffused with emotions that educators, administrators, and reformers have sought to shape. Yet historians of medicine have only begun to analyze how emotions have structured health care work. This introductory essay frames a special issue on health care practitioners' emotions in the twentieth-century United Kingdom and United States. We argue that the massive bureaucratic and scientific changes in medicine after the Second World War helped to reshape affective aspects of care...
September 23, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37740497/town-planning-housing-and-the-politics-of-sanitation-and-public-health-in-the-gold-coast-colonial-ghana-c-1880-1950
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
Colonial officials remarked disparagingly about the nature of houses and what they presented as congested layouts in Gold Coast communities. Subsequently, drawing on nineteenth-century epidemiological theory that connected diseases and poor health to defective housing and congested settlements, the colonial administration introduced measures to redesign and reorder Gold Coast communities. This article examines the connection between colonial town planning and housing measures and the politics of sanitation and public health in the Gold Coast...
September 22, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37724884/what-evidence-for-a-cholera-vaccine-jaime-ferr%C3%A3-n-s-submissions-to-the-prix-br%C3%A3-ant
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Clara Uzcanga, David Teira
This article analyses how the French Academy of Sciences assessed Jaime Ferrán's cholera vaccine submitted for the Prix Bréant in the 1880s. Ferrán, a Spanish independent physician, discovered the treatment in 1884 and tried it on thousands of patients during the cholera outbreak in Valencia the following year. His evaluation sparked a controversy in Spain and abroad on the vaccine's efficacy. The Bréant jury did not see any evidence for it in Ferrán's submission, a decision usually interpreted in terms of French scientific nationalism (or simple chauvinism): an outsider from the scientific periphery could not be awarded the Bréant...
September 19, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37681759/arbovirology-and-cold-war-collaborations-a-transnational-history-of-the-tick-borne-encephalitis-vaccine-1930-1980
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Mazanik
This article analyzes the history of immunization against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and specifically the processes that led to the creation and application of TBE vaccines in the Soviet Union and Austria. Rather than presenting the development of TBE vaccines from the perspective of national scientific schools, the article investigates their history as a transnational project, focusing on the connections among the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Austria, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It argues that biomedical research on TBE was profoundly intertwined with political and military agendas and depended on civil international cooperation as well as Soviet, American, and British military concerns, infrastructures and funding...
September 8, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37665650/from-canadian-surgeon-to-chinese-martyr-dr-norman-bethune-and-the-making-of-a-medical-folk-hero
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brendan Ross, Rolando F Del Maestro
This paper reexamines the public memory of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune. In 1938, Bethune traveled to China to serve at the communist front and to treat soldiers fighting against the invading Japanese army. Throughout China, Bethune is a household name and a communist icon. Back in Canada, however, his name does not evoke the same ubiquity. While Canadians remembered Bethune through biographies, a film, statues, and a small museum, his story in the Anglophone world is confined primarily to the telling of distant history...
September 4, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37652056/silences-and-omissions-in-reporting-epidemics-in-russian-and-soviet-prisons-1890-2021
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mikhail Nakonechnyi, Judith Pallot
Penitentiary systems serve as breeding grounds for all kinds of diseases. Drawing upon new archival materials, this article examines the history of the management and reporting of epidemics in the Russian prison system from the late Imperial period to the present day. We use the case studies of cholera (1892-1893), typhus (1932-1933), and pulmonary tuberculosis (the 1990s) to examine how the general political and social conjuncture at different times affected the response of prison authorities to epidemics to show that, notwithstanding major shifts in society and polity, there was continuity in the management of epidemics by prison authorities in the long twentieth century...
August 31, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37595254/treating-delinquent-and-feebleminded-juveniles-at-the-beloit-industrial-school-for-girls-in-early-twentieth-century-kansas
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heather L McCrea
This study explores the troubling and unintended consequences of public health efforts to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and feeblemindedness. Health care professionals, superintendents, and other authority figures equated undesirable juvenile behaviors such as keeping "bad company" or "falling in with the wrong crowd," truancy, and petty theft with poor breeding, low intelligence, and inheritable criminal tendencies. This article interrogates historical documentation culled from the Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) and focuses on a few specific cases to reveal the ways a patriarchal political and medical state system both protected and alienated young woman accused of a myriad of behavior issues including delinquency, incorrigibility, and feeblemindedness...
August 18, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37579294/-a-much-wider-field-in-which-to-operate-early-black-women-physicians-in-public-health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Margaret Vigil-Fowler, Sukumar Desai
In a profession shaped by Whiteness and masculinity, the few Black women physicians who earned medical degrees prior to the Second World War found some of their rare professional opportunities in public health. Though their choices were often constrained by racism and sexism, they embraced public health work as a means of carrying out their "mission" in marginalized communities and as a way of practicing medicine with a more expansive definition than treating individual patients or illnesses. Black women physicians shaped public health by creating unique programming to meet the needs of the communities they served, including mobile health clinics and community health weeks...
August 14, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37578803/ancient-conceptions-of-the-human-uterus-italic-votives-and-animal-wombs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claire Bubb
The numerous votive uteri found across the central Italian peninsula from the fourth to first centuries BCE are puzzlingly evocative of the human simplex uterus, which is visually distinct from the bicornuate uteri characteristic of most other mammals. However, human dissection is not attested for this time and place, while animal butchery was common. This article uses modern veterinary anatomical imagery to argue that animal uteri - specifically as they appear when pregnant - were indeed models underlying the votive depictions...
August 14, 2023: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
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