Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Bulletin of the History of Medicine 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital by Martin Summers31
A Thread of Life: Mahbub al-Mahmud and Medical Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Morocco12
Ethics by Committee: A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State by Noortje Jacobs (review)6
Patients, Disability, Syphilis, and History5
High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada5
When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries by Janet Greenlees4
The Many Colors of Excrement: Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm4
Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types by Allan V. Horwitz (review)3
The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)3
In Memoriam, Natalie C. Köhle (1976–2024)3
Books Received3
Segregated in Life and Death: Arnold R. Rich and the Racial Science of Tuberculosis3
"Four Corners and a Void": Idiocy and Childhood Disability in Nineteenth-Century America3
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Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science ed. by Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen (review)2
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)2
Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing ed. by Sarah Star (review)2
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 by Jeannie N. Shinozuka (review)2
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance2
Colonial Visions and Their Rearticulations: Ways of Looking at Early Twentieth-Century Medical Images of Skin Difference in Malawi1
Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America by Sandra Sufian (review)1
Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS by Anthony Stavrianakis (review)1
Erratum1
Subject and Author Index: Volume 991
“Doctors for Export”: Medical Migration from Ireland, c.1860–1960 by Greta Jones1
News and Events1
Disease and Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature ed. by Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella (review)1
Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts by Ruth Yun-Ju Chen (review)1
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Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization1
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine1
Mobile Monkeys and Modified Microbes: Medical Experimentation between Metropolitan and Colonial Laboratories, 1880–ca. 19251
Patients' Views on Psychiatry, Coercion, and Social Class1
A Social History of Seoul National University Hospital: The National Health Insurance, Three-Minute Consultation, and the Convoluted Legacy of American Aid for a Postcolonial Medical Institution in So1
Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating by Catherine L. Newell (review)1
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting1
A Tribute to Caroline Catherine Hannaway (1943–2024)1
Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje1
AIDS and the Untenable Animal Model: The Cost and Ethics of U.S. HIV/AIDS Research with Chimpanzees, 1983–20001
Saints, Cure-Seekers, and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England by Ruth J. Salter1
Time, Productivity, and Race in Plantation Management and Medicine1
Making Physicians: Tradition, Teaching, and Trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639, Vol. 1 by Evan R. Ragland (review)1
Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham1
Table of Contents: Volume 991
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine1
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Conceiving Monsters: Women, Knowledge, and Anomalous Births in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
Visions of (Tuberculosis) Control: Medical Photographs in Mau Mau–Era Kenya1
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Human Genetics with Global Aspirations: Inventing Community Genetics within and beyond the World Health Organization (1960s–2000s)1
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France by Jessie Hewitt (review)1
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo (review)1
Subject and Author Index1
“Mom and Tots”: Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in 1960s’ Detroit1
"When I Think of It I Awfully Dread It": Conceptualizing Childbirth Pain in Early America1
Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey1
Disability, Spirituality, and Settler Colonialism: The Story of Joseph La Flesche’s Artificial Leg1
Reckoning with Historical Harms to Transform Nursing at the University of Virginia1
Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America1
"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-19500
The War on Drugs: A History ed. by David Farber (review)0
Flipping the Script—Community Grand Rounds0
Comment: Making Medicine Material0
Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History by Orna Ophir (review)0
Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by Maya J. Goldenberg0
"Absolute Necessity": The Discovery of the Fetal Heartbeat with the Stethoscope, and Its Impact on Obstetric Practice in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1820–18400
The History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Finland: From National Needs to International Arenas, 1900s–1990s0
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Books Received0
Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media ed. by Peter Leese0
Subject and Author Index0
Pandemic Influenza in Late Ottoman and British Occupied Iraq: The 1889–1893 and 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemics0
Arthur Schüller: Founder of Neuroradiology, A Life on Two Continents by John Keith Henderson (review)0
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America by Thurka Sangaramoorthy (review)0
The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital by Adam J. Davis0
(Re)producing Reproduction: Obstetrical Training Models and Methods, 1880–19000
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting0
Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices ed. by Jean-Paul Gaudilliére et al0
Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity by Helen Rhee (review)0
A Clinic for the People: Toward an Antiracist Psychiatry at the Tuskegee Institute 1947–19650
Table of Contents: Volume 970
News and Events0
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision0
"A Person Like Me": Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Gender, and Racial Immunity in the Twentieth-Century United States0
A Hospital of Her Own: British Nurses, Authority, and the Colonial Space in Interwar Palestine and Cyprus0
Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 by Elizabeth A. Williams (review)0
Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe by Meg Leja (review)0
Making Medicine Material: Objects and Materiality in the History of Medicine0
Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature by Sophie Vasset (review)0
Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science by Peter Pesic (review)0
Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force by Jean C. Whelan0
Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin by Lisa T. Sarasohn (review)0
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder (review)0
Sanadores, Parteras, Curanderos y Medicas: Las Artes de Curar en la Argentina moderna ed. by Diego Armus (review)0
Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention by Laura Mamo (review)0
Comment: Making Medicine Material0
Reproductive Objects0
Specialists on Stage: Neurosurgeons, Mass Media, and the Performance of Expertise in the Dutch Welfare State, ca. 1950–19850
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A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind by Edward Beasley (review)0
Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine by Peter A. Swenson (review)0
The Creation and Circulation of Evidence and Knowledge in American Medicine through the Lens of the "Husband's Stitch"0
Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France by David A. Guba, Jr0
The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics ed. by William H. Schneider (review)0
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine0
Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda by Marissa A. Mika (review)0
The Midwife's Bag: Tracing the Objects of Professional Identity in Post-Unification Italy0
Constructing Centimeters : Emanuel Friedman's Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve0
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li (review)0
Entanglements of Eugenics, Public Health, and Academic Medicine: Reckoning with the Life and Legacies of Victor C. Vaughan0
Making Time for the Body: Galen on Time Scarcity and Health0
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime0
A Conjure Woman in Court: African American Conjurers as Health Practitioners and Performative Poisoners in the Post-Emancipation South0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance by Michael Stolberg (review)0
The Protein Gap: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Nutrient in International Public Health0
Writing the History of Legal Abortion0
Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare by Klaus Hoeyer (review)0
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Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman0
Comment: What Else Could a Material History of Medicine Be?0
Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-19800
Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital by César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero (review)0
Underrepresented Minority Recruitment: Manpower as Motivator in Late Twentieth-Century Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy0
The Long War on Drugs by Anne Foster (review)0
Race in Circulation: Blood Banks and Forced Mobilities in the Eastern Mediterranean0
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico by Cori Hayden (review)0
Represented: Black Alumni at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1960s–1970s0
Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge by Daniel A. Menchik0
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine0
Souls Under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence by Nicole Archambeau0
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett0
Hide and Seek: Elmer Belt, Agnes, and the Battle over Castration in Transsexual Surgery, 1953–19620
Tensions of a Discipline: The First World Congress of Psychiatry in Paris, between Global Ambitions and Local Practices0
Dreams: Charcot's Last Words on Hysteria0
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg0
Rabbit Spleen and Medicinal Herbs: Animal Infectious Diseases, Grassroots Communes, and the State in Maoist China0
Dissection Photography: Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity by Brandon Zimmerman (review)0
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland by Ruth Rogaski0
Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750 by Lori Jones (review)0
Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics by Marc Landas0
Index to Volume 960
Acknowledgments0
In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550–17500
Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism by Susan Grant (review)0
Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal by Richard W. Vaudry0
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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jolene Zigarovich (review)0
Special Issue Introduction: Photographs as Sources for African Histories of Health and Healing0
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Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global by Julia Ross Cummiskey (review)0
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences by Katja Guenther (review)0
Parasites, Pepsin, Pus, and Postulates: Jakob Henle's Essay on Miasma, Contagium, and Miasmatic-Contagious Diseases in Its Original Contexts0
On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease0
Prenatal Care in the Rural United States, 1912–19290
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body by Steffan Blayney (review)0
"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City": Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest0
News and Events0
The Tufts-Delta Health Center and the Limits of Maximum Feasible Participation, 1965–19700
Editors' Note0
The Origins of Camphill and the Legacy of the Asylum in Disability History0
Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children ed. by Elena Conis, Sandra Eder and Aimee Medeiros0
Can Insiders Be Activists? Narrating Local History Truthfully in an Academic Health Center0
Doctoring the Black Death, Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth0
“It Gives the Mother the Best Chance for Her Life”: U.S. Catholic Health Care and the Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy0
Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine0
Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon by Anna Harris and Tom Rice (review)0
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Fifth Annual Meeting0
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman0
Subject and Author Index0
Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Christos Lynteris (review)0
Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri (review)0
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health by Merlin Chowkwanyun (review)0
Radical Visions of American Medicine: Politics and Activism in the History of Medicine0
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi0
"Just Listen to Us": The Role of Oral Histories in Decolonizing Academic Medicine0
Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs by P. E. Caquet (review)0
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting0
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment by Christina Ramos (review)0
News and Events0
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review)0
3D-Printed Prostheses and Early Modern Iron Hands: A Method to Investigate the Lived Experiences of Amputees in the Premodern World0
Anatomy of the Medical Image: Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today ed. by Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller (review)0
A View from Northern Mexico: Abortions before Roe v. Wade0
Dobbs in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country0
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR by Tricia Starks (review)0
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Beyond Imperturbability: The Nineteenth-Century Medical Casebook as Affective Genre0
Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy by Hannah Marcus0
Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History0
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An Artificial Appetite: The Nineteenth-Century Struggle to Define Habitual Drunkenness0
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Introduction: Medical Mobilities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa0
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior0
On Making Us Whole Again0
Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"0
The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests by Amy Hay (review)0
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona0
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America by Rachel E. Walker (review)0
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian0
Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History by Wayne Soon0
The Quack and the Hacks—Milan Brych and Modern Quackery’s Reliance on Facilitative Networks0
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Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy and the Emergence of Ecological Malariology Within and Beyond Imperial Britain0
Self-Healing, Nutrition Therapy, and Alternative Medicine in the Era of HIV/AIDS0
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee0
Object Explorer0
The Art of Childbirth: A Bilingual Edition by Marie Baudoin (review)0
Warming Technologies, Cold Bodies, and Everyday Health in Early Modern England0
Noncommunicable Diseases and the Uses of World Health Magazine 1958–19980
"Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower": The Vayattati's Hands in Twentieth-Century Kerala0
Being Seen to Care: Photographs, Audiences, and the Swiss Medical Mission in Colonial Mozambique at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
The Citizen as a Public Health Actor: Complaints as Public Engagement with Aedes Mosquito Control in Singapore, 1965–19850
Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa0
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers: Notes of Encouragement and Caution0
"Denied the Joys of Motherhood": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns0
"Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre- Roe South Carolina0
“Heroin Mothers,” “Methadone Babies,” and the Medical Controversy over Methadone Maintenance in the Early 1970s0
Internal Rotation(s): Sociomaterial Practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim's Experiments on Birth Mechanics0
Colliding Bodies: Prostitutes, Soldiers, and Venereal Diseases in Colonial Egypt0
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