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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose	8
Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely	7
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period	7
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’	6
In defence of medical judgement: medicalisation strategies in the daily life of the Lima Asylum in the last third of the 19th century	6
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots	6
The lower cavity: the origins and history of an anatomical idea	5
The treatment of alcoholism that should not exist: Addiction, East German doctors, and Western methods in the German Democratic Republic	5
The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India	5
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–1598	5
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–1904	4
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)	4
Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936–2016	4
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–1952	4
When hospitals came to Sweden in the eighteenth century: a foreign import with practical difficulties	3
Networks of exchange: East German kidney transplantation in European context, 1965–1990	3
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union	2
Habit, medicine, and society in 18th-century Britain	2
‘The god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons	2
MDH volume 67 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation	2
MDH volume 66 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	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: 9780822946854	2
Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness – new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries	2
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–2022	2

‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain	2
Overcoming Childlessness: Narratives of Conception in Early Modern North India	2
Charmaine Robson, Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. VIII + 265, £79.50, eBook, ISBN: 978-3-031-05796-0	2
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine	1
An appropriate technology of breastfeeding in China: 1949–1965	1
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM	1
‘I cannot say that he is of unsound mind’: the case of Lunatic Richard Lea	1
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations	1
‘This restriction of expression’: migration, social catastrophes, and psychiatry in Cold War Taiwan	1
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India	1
MDH volume 69 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
MDH volume 67 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Little lives—reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database	1
Books Also Received	1
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.	1
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England	1
When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors	1
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: 0822946	1
Philippa Nicole Barr, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 ), pp. 71, £17.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781108821063.	0
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession	0
Nursing the colonised: the politics of representation of the Western nurse in plague-stricken Bombay	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: 97814780303	0
The first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877–80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius	0
Cold war of strains: the ‘Bulgarian’ BCG vaccine between Paris, Copenhagen, and Moscow (1940s–1950s)	0
The fixed idea of sex and the dawn of theoretical gender medicine	0
MDH volume 67 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	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, ISB	0
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
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe	0
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England	0
Convulsions as a cause of infant death: New insights into its meaning based on evidence from four European cities (1800–1955)	0
Popular health guides and their reception in Finland, 1890s–1970s	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: 978-0-226-79251	0
Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–40	0
Sources of madness: investigating the post-colonial history of psychiatry in Niger	0
The Plague of Provence (1720–2) and debates in Britain on the cross-species transmission of disease	0
Situated efficacy: FMD vaccines in France and Britain, 1930s–1960s	0
MDH volume 66 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
When prevention became social: public health atomism and the assemblage of a National Immunisation Programme in the Netherlands, 1872–1959	0
Ailing reactors and their isotopes: radiopharmacy and nuclear research in Belgium (1990–2020)	0
MDH volume 68 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Immunity for sale: depictions of immunity in British newspaper advertising, 1890–1940	0
Contraceptive sterilisation: private practice, tubal ligation and vasectomy in twentieth-century Australia	0
MDH volume 68 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
An ‘arsenal for the supply of ammunition for the defence of vaccination’: the Jenner Society and anti-anti-vaccinationism in England, 1896–1906	0
‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England	0
From medical officers of health to multidisciplinary public health specialists: a history of the professional transformation of public health in Britain, 1970–2025	0
Galen and the words of patients	0
Before thalidomide: Heinrich Mückter and the Nazi typhus complex	0

The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi	0
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia	0
Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse	0
MDH volume 67 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM	0
The Medical and Physical Journal and the construction of medical journalism in Britain, 1733–1803	0
Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951–61	0
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892–1931	0
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)	0
‘Suffering for the sins of others’: Lucius D. Bulkley, Syphilis Insontium, and disease destigmatisation in the progressive era United States	0
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–65	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
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s	0
Adolf Nichtenhauser and the history of medical film	0
Bacteriological research and ‘puerperal’ fever: female health and childbirth in late colonial India	0
In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague	0
Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools	0
The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story	0
Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe – ERRATUM	0
MDH volume 70 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
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
Preventing the heterosexual epidemic: Responses and contingencies during the HIV/AIDS crisis in Denmark, 1981–1997	0
Therapies crossing borders in European state socialism, 1950-1990. Introduction to the special issue	0
A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate	0
The expansion of colonial state healthcare in twentieth-century British Africa	0
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex	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, 20	0
Internationalist blood: Karel Holubec and the diffusion of Duran Jordà’s method of blood transfusion to Czechoslovakia, 1930s–50s	0
A history of thalidomide in India	0
The Soviet export of sleep therapy to the Eastern Bloc countries after the Pavlovian session in 1950	0
Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance mūmiyāʾ (pitch-asphalt) and its medicinal uses in Byzantium	0
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials	0
From the traditional account to an ‘off-centred history’ of the mental hygiene movement: the question of the international (1908–1939)	0
MDH volume 68 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
MDH volume 69 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’	0
‘[M]ercy is justice…and should not be denied’: Lord Dawson, the British medico-legal community, and the Infanticide Act, 1938	0
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: 0-19-0128	0
Disparate emotions? The play of emotions in clinical histories and patients’ letters (Pinel Sanatorium, SP/Brazil – 1929–1944)	0
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–1886	0
The anatomy theatre and the slaughterhouse: emotion, vivisection, and the disciplines of medicine in the experimental practices of Charles Bell	0
Books Also Received	0
Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century	0
MDH volume 66 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
‘At least our pituitaries will see the world’: Pituitary gland export from communist Bulgaria	0
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–1940	0
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–1904 – CORRIGENDUM	0
Patrick Chiu, A History of Western Pharmacy in China (Singapore: Springer, 2023), pp. xxxii+219, EUR37.99, hardback, ISBN: 9789819986347.	0
Culpeper’s herbal The English Physitian and its debt to apothecary John Parkinson	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 medicine	0
The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975–2022)	0
MDH volume 69 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Measuring emotions: schizophrenia and family across cultural boundaries	0
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire	0
Eradicating syphilis? Alternative projects, failures, and infectious disease control in the French colonial empire (1916–1940)	0
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
Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association’s (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936–1967	0
MDH volume 70 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Doctors in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Taiwan in the Second World War and their personal accounts of captivity	0
Romantic racism: A reassessment of Carl Gustav Carus’s writings on race and human inequality	0
Different aspirations: medicine, activism and uterine vacuum aspiration technology in Spain (1960s–1980s)	0
The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 1953	0
MDH volume 68 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
‘Opening’ the closed method: military-civilian exchanges and transatlantic circulations in Manuel Bastos’ early work on compound fractures (1909–24)	0
‘Microcosm of the Pacific’: Colonial encounters at the Central Medical School in Fiji	0
MDH volume 69 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
From plaques to pocks: carrying over bacteriophage assay techniques to the study of influenza and other animal viruses	0
The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India – CORRIGENDUM	0
Mental illness, forced labour, and colonial biopower in Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria, 1900–1947	0
The ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic: new evidence for influenza outbreaks in England and France prior to 1918	0
MDH volume 66 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
From radiology to a world-in-crisis: Rolf Sievert and the re-orientation of the International Commission on Radiation Protection in the post-war period	0
Beth Linker, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024), pp. 392, $29.95, hardcover, ISBN: 9780691235493.	0
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
Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources	0
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
The great balancing debate: a history of observing and cultivating herd immunity, 1920–2020	0
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges	0
Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain	0
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–1837	0

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 patient	0
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north	0