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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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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: 9712
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose8
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period5
Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely5
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 dots3
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–19523
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’3
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).3
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–19043
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–15982
Networks of exchange: East German kidney transplantation in European context, 1965–19902
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–20132
Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936–20162
Negotiating South–South cooperation for mental health: the World Health Organization and the African Mental Health Action Group, 1970s–90s2
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: 97808229468541
Ole J. Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, 2nd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), pp. 1058, £ 143, hardback, ISBN: 9781783275168.1
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union1
Overcoming Childlessness: Narratives of Conception in Early Modern North India1
Pain, medicine and the monitoring of war violence: the case of rifle bullets (1868–1918)1
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
Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant1
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)1
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, hardbac1
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Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation1
Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan1
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–20221
‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain1
‘The god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons1
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. xii + 258, $99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108491259.1
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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
Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials0
Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools0
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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
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo0
Mobilising through vaccination: the case of polio in France (1950–60s)0
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia0
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
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)0
A vaccination romance: Rider Haggard’s Dr. Therne (1898) in the vaccination debate0
Fluid deafness: earwax and hardness of hearing in early modern Europe0
Immunity for sale: depictions of immunity in British newspaper advertising, 1890–19400
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
The expansion of colonial state healthcare in twentieth-century British Africa0
The poet Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523) and the French disease: the records and human remains of a probable yaws patient0
Smallpox and immunisation policies in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twentieth century0
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
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
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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Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources0
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892–19310
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe0
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Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928–650
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire0
Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history0
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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The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi0
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–18370
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations0
Romantic racism: A reassessment of Carl Gustav Carus’s writings on race and human inequality0
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826–18860
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
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM0
Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’0
Patrick Chiu, A History of Western Pharmacy in China (Singapore: Springer, 2023), pp. xxxii+219, EUR37.99, hardback, ISBN: 9789819986347.0
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Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England0
‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England0
Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India0
An ‘arsenal for the supply of ammunition for the defence of vaccination’: the Jenner Society and anti-anti-vaccinationism in England, 1896–19060
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India0
Cholera, British seamen and maritime anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’0
Convulsions as a cause of infant death: New insights into its meaning based on evidence from four European cities (1800–1955)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
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Negotiating social medicine in a postcolonial context: Halfdan Mahler in India 1951–610
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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
Finding ruh in the forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the emerging Turkish psychiatric discourse0
Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–19110
‘Microcosm of the Pacific’: Colonial encounters at the Central Medical School in Fiji0
Physicians imprisoned in Franco Spain’s Miranda de Ebro “Campo de Concentración”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
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession0
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
With all best wishes for the future0
Culpeper’s herbal The English Physitian and its debt to apothecary John Parkinson0
Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association’s (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936–19670
Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance mūmiyāʾ (pitch-asphalt) and its medicinal uses in Byzantium0
The first recorded outbreak of epidemic dropsy, 1877–80: Climate, empire, and colonial medical science between India, Bengal, and Mauritius0
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex0
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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Beneath the skin: method and perception in Hippocratic medicine0
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
Doctors in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Taiwan in the Second World War and their personal accounts of captivity0
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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
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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Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.0
Internationalist blood: Karel Holubec and the diffusion of Duran Jordà’s method of blood transfusion to Czechoslovakia, 1930s–50s0
Rise of Siddha medicine: causes and constructions in the Madras Presidency (1920–1930s)0
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The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine0
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) – CORRIGENDUM0
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
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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, $55.000
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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
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The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975–2022)0
In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague0
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
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
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 complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 19530
A history of thalidomide in India0
‘[M]ercy is justice…and should not be denied’: Lord Dawson, the British medico-legal community, and the Infanticide Act, 19380
‘Suffering for the sins of others’: Lucius D. Bulkley, Syphilis Insontium, and disease destigmatisation in the progressive era United States0
Beth Linker, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024), pp. 392, $29.95, hardcover, ISBN: 9780691235493.0
The Medical and Physical Journal and the construction of medical journalism in Britain, 1733–18030
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
Work, marriage and premature birth: the sociomedicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe – ERRATUM0
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges0
The power of the ‘universal’: caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900–19400
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s0
When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors0
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England0
Galen and the words of patients0
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north0
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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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
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Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–400
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