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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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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: 9713
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose10
Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely7
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period6
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’4
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).4
Sethina Watson, On Hospitals: Welfare, Law and Christianity in Western Europe, 400–1320 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020). 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-884753-3.4
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots4
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–19523
Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936–20163
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–15983
The treatment of alcoholism that should not exist: Addiction, East German doctors, and Western methods in the German Democratic Republic3
Networks of exchange: East German kidney transplantation in European context, 1965–19903
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–19043
The lower cavity: the origins and history of an anatomical idea3
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)3
Ole J. Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, 2nd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), pp. 1058, £ 143, hardback, ISBN: 9781783275168.2
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: 97808229468542
‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain2
Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation2
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–20222
Pain, medicine and the monitoring of war violence: the case of rifle bullets (1868–1918)2
Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan2
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union2
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Little lives—reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database1
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Charmaine Robson, Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. VIII + 265, £79.50, eBook, ISBN: 978-3-031-05796-01
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 978-146-9666-570.1
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: 08229461
Overcoming Childlessness: Narratives of Conception in Early Modern North India1
When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors1
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations1
‘The god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons1
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Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM0
Philippa Nicole Barr, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 ), pp. 71, £17.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781108821063.0
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe – ERRATUM0
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–19400
Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain0
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 first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877–80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius0
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–650
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An appropriate technology of breastfeeding in China: 1949–19650
The fixed idea of sex and the dawn of theoretical gender medicine0
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north0
Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools0
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
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: 978-0-226-792510
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England0
Mobilising through vaccination: the case of polio in France (1950–60s)0
Stuart Anderson, Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires. Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618–1968 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024), pp. 340,0
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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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
Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–19110
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials0
Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951–610
The Plague of Provence (1720–2) and debates in Britain on the cross-species transmission of disease0
From plaques to pocks: carrying over bacteriophage assay techniques to the study of influenza and other animal viruses0
Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
‘Microcosm of the Pacific’: Colonial encounters at the Central Medical School in Fiji0
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex0
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Beth Linker, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024), pp. 392, $29.95, hardcover, ISBN: 9780691235493.0
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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Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association’s (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936–19670
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In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague0
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‘Suffering for the sins of others’: Lucius D. Bulkley, Syphilis Insontium, and disease destigmatisation in the progressive era United States0
Physicians imprisoned in Franco Spain’s Miranda de Ebro “Campo de Concentración”0
The poet Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523) and the French disease: the records and human remains of a probable yaws patient0
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
‘This restriction of expression’: migration, social catastrophes, and psychiatry in Cold War Taiwan0
Culpeper’s herbal The English Physitian and its debt to apothecary John Parkinson0
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892–19310
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi0
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India0
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s0
Beneath the skin: method and perception in Hippocratic medicine0
Patrick Chiu, A History of Western Pharmacy in China (Singapore: Springer, 2023), pp. xxxii+219, EUR37.99, hardback, ISBN: 9789819986347.0
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.0
Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history0
Michael Brown, Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. xiv + 310, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-108-83484-1).0
Eugenia Pacitti, The Body Collected in Australia: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), pp. xii + 214, AUD$170.00, hardback, ISB0
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Immunity for sale: depictions of immunity in British newspaper advertising, 1890–19400
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
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
Romantic racism: A reassessment of Carl Gustav Carus’s writings on race and human inequality0
Different aspirations: medicine, activism and uterine vacuum aspiration technology in Spain (1960s–1980s)0
The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story0
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Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM0
The expansion of colonial state healthcare in twentieth-century British Africa0
Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century0
Situated efficacy: FMD vaccines in France and Britain, 1930s–1960s0
Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–400
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
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
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‘[M]ercy is justice…and should not be denied’: Lord Dawson, the British medico-legal community, and the Infanticide Act, 19380
Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse0
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia0
Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources0
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
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The Medical and Physical Journal and the construction of medical journalism in Britain, 1733–18030
Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance mūmiyāʾ (pitch-asphalt) and its medicinal uses in Byzantium0
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–18860
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe0
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–1904 – CORRIGENDUM0
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
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine0
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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
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)0
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, paperback, ISBN: 978147803030
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–18370
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Contraceptive sterilisation: private practice, tubal ligation and vasectomy in twentieth-century Australia0
Evan R. Ragland, Making Physicians: Tradition, Teaching, and Trials at Leiden University, 1575-1639 (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. xii + 457, €125.00, hardback, ISBN: 9789004515727.0
With all best wishes for the future0
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Convulsions as a cause of infant death: New insights into its meaning based on evidence from four European cities (1800–1955)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
From radiology to a world-in-crisis: Rolf Sievert and the re-orientation of the International Commission on Radiation Protection in the post-war period0
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)0
Popular health guides and their reception in Finland, 1890s–1970s0
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‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England0
A history of thalidomide in India0
The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 19530
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Internationalist blood: Karel Holubec and the diffusion of Duran Jordà’s method of blood transfusion to Czechoslovakia, 1930s–50s0
‘At least our pituitaries will see the world’: Pituitary gland export from communist Bulgaria0
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An ‘arsenal for the supply of ammunition for the defence of vaccination’: the Jenner Society and anti-anti-vaccinationism in England, 1896–19060
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges0
Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India0
Doctors in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Taiwan in the Second World War and their personal accounts of captivity0
Galen and the words of patients0
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession0
A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate0
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