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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital by Martin Summers31
A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine by Judith Farquhar10
A Thread of Life: Mahbub al-Mahmud and Medical Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Morocco5
Ethics by Committee: A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State by Noortje Jacobs (review)4
Segregated in Life and Death: Arnold R. Rich and the Racial Science of Tuberculosis3
Patients, Disability, Syphilis, and History3
When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries by Janet Greenlees3
High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada3
The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)3
The Many Colors of Excrement: Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm3
Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types by Allan V. Horwitz (review)2
Books Received2
Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing ed. by Sarah Star (review)2
In Memoriam, Natalie C. Köhle (1976–2024)2
Books Received2
"Four Corners and a Void": Idiocy and Childhood Disability in Nineteenth-Century America2
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 by Jeannie N. Shinozuka (review)2
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by Stef M. Shuster2
Mobile Monkeys and Modified Microbes: Medical Experimentation between Metropolitan and Colonial Laboratories, 1880–ca. 19252
Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science ed. by Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen (review)2
Conceiving Monsters: Women, Knowledge, and Anomalous Births in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era by Michael R. Kronenfeld and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld1
Object Explorer1
Doctoring the Black Death, Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth1
Human Genetics with Global Aspirations: Inventing Community Genetics within and beyond the World Health Organization (1960s–2000s)1
A Tribute to Caroline Catherine Hannaway (1943–2024)1
Synchronic and Diachronic Factors Influencing Medieval Arabic Medical Practice: A Study of Ophthalmological Fragments Found in the Cairo Genizah1
Time, Productivity, and Race in Plantation Management and Medicine1
Saints, Cure-Seekers, and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England by Ruth J. Salter1
Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization1
Patients' Views on Psychiatry, Coercion, and Social Class1
Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare by Sasha Mullally and David Wright1
Books Received1
Books Received1
"Other Things and Apparatuses": Abortion Techniques and Technologies in Pre- Roe South Carolina1
The Creation and Circulation of Evidence and Knowledge in American Medicine through the Lens of the "Husband's Stitch"1
Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America by Sandra Sufian (review)1
Books Received1
News and Events1
Subject and Author Index1
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
"When I Think of It I Awfully Dread It": Conceptualizing Childbirth Pain in Early America1
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France by Jessie Hewitt (review)1
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)1
Reckoning with Historical Harms to Transform Nursing at the University of Virginia1
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance1
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine1
Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham1
On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease1
Constructing Centimeters : Emanuel Friedman's Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve1
Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating by Catherine L. Newell (review)1
Erratum1
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo (review)1
Disease and Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature ed. by Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella (review)1
“Doctors for Export”: Medical Migration from Ireland, c.1860–1960 by Greta Jones1
Books Received1
Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje1
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine1
Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America1
Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey1
Making Time for the Body: Galen on Time Scarcity and Health0
Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"0
"Absolute Necessity": The Discovery of the Fetal Heartbeat with the Stethoscope, and Its Impact on Obstetric Practice in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1820–18400
"Denied the Joys of Motherhood": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns0
The History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Finland: From National Needs to International Arenas, 1900s–1990s0
Books Received0
Books Received0
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review)0
A View from Northern Mexico: Abortions before Roe v. Wade0
Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman0
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico by Cori Hayden (review)0
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg0
Parasites, Pepsin, Pus, and Postulates: Jakob Henle's Essay on Miasma, Contagium, and Miasmatic-Contagious Diseases in Its Original Contexts0
Rabbit Spleen and Medicinal Herbs: Animal Infectious Diseases, Grassroots Communes, and the State in Maoist China0
Books Received0
Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare by Klaus Hoeyer (review)0
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine0
Introduction: Medical Mobilities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa0
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America by Rachel E. Walker (review)0
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision0
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime0
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes by James Doucet-Battle0
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder (review)0
Noncommunicable Diseases and the Uses of World Health Magazine 1958–19980
In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550–17500
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Specialists on Stage: Neurosurgeons, Mass Media, and the Performance of Expertise in the Dutch Welfare State, ca. 1950–19850
The Whiteness of Bones: Sceletopoeia and the Human Body in Early Modern Europe0
Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine by Peter A. Swenson (review)0
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman0
The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics ed. by William H. Schneider (review)0
Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France by David A. Guba, Jr0
Dobbs in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country0
"Just Listen to Us": The Role of Oral Histories in Decolonizing Academic Medicine0
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences by Katja Guenther (review)0
Entanglements of Eugenics, Public Health, and Academic Medicine: Reckoning with the Life and Legacies of Victor C. Vaughan0
"Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower": The Vayattati's Hands in Twentieth-Century Kerala0
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee0
Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way by Mical Raz0
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian0
The Citizen as a Public Health Actor: Complaints as Public Engagement with Aedes Mosquito Control in Singapore, 1965–19850
News and Events0
Reproductive Objects0
Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal by Richard W. Vaudry0
Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media ed. by Peter Leese0
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Dissection Photography: Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity by Brandon Zimmerman (review)0
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Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History by Orna Ophir (review)0
Underrepresented Minority Recruitment: Manpower as Motivator in Late Twentieth-Century Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy0
Dreams: Charcot's Last Words on Hysteria0
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona0
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting0
Subject and Author Index0
Souls Under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence by Nicole Archambeau0
Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity by Helen Rhee (review)0
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Fifth Annual Meeting0
Hide and Seek: Elmer Belt, Agnes, and the Battle over Castration in Transsexual Surgery, 1953–19620
(Re)producing Reproduction: Obstetrical Training Models and Methods, 1880–19000
Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by Maya J. Goldenberg0
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Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment by Christina Ramos (review)0
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland by Ruth Rogaski0
A Conjure Woman in Court: African American Conjurers as Health Practitioners and Performative Poisoners in the Post-Emancipation South0
Sanadores, Parteras, Curanderos y Medicas: Las Artes de Curar en la Argentina moderna ed. by Diego Armus (review)0
Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-19800
Table of Contents: Volume 970
Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy and the Emergence of Ecological Malariology Within and Beyond Imperial Britain0
Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Christos Lynteris (review)0
"Falling-Out" in Miami and the History of Culture in American Medicine0
Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science by Peter Pesic (review)0
Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children ed. by Elena Conis, Sandra Eder and Aimee Medeiros0
"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-19500
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body by Steffan Blayney (review)0
Prenatal Care in the Rural United States, 1912–19290
Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History0
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine0
Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History by Wayne Soon0
The Origins of Camphill and the Legacy of the Asylum in Disability History0
Editors' Note0
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting0
News and Events0
Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 by Elizabeth A. Williams (review)0
Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics by Marc Landas0
Index to Volume 960
On Making Us Whole Again0
Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin by Lisa T. Sarasohn (review)0
“It Gives the Mother the Best Chance for Her Life”: U.S. Catholic Health Care and the Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy0
Arthur Schüller: Founder of Neuroradiology, A Life on Two Continents by John Keith Henderson (review)0
Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda by Marissa A. Mika (review)0
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi0
Subject and Author Index0
Represented: Black Alumni at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1960s–1970s0
Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy by Hannah Marcus0
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li (review)0
Can Insiders Be Activists? Narrating Local History Truthfully in an Academic Health Center0
"A Person Like Me": Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Gender, and Racial Immunity in the Twentieth-Century United States0
Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices ed. by Jean-Paul Gaudilliére et al0
The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital by Adam J. Davis0
Colliding Bodies: Prostitutes, Soldiers, and Venereal Diseases in Colonial Egypt0
Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge by Daniel A. Menchik0
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett0
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America by Thurka Sangaramoorthy (review)0
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil by Cassia Roth0
Race in Circulation: Blood Banks and Forced Mobilities in the Eastern Mediterranean0
A Clinic for the People: Toward an Antiracist Psychiatry at the Tuskegee Institute 1947–19650
Flipping the Script—Community Grand Rounds0
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health by Merlin Chowkwanyun (review)0
Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750 by Lori Jones (review)0
Books Received0
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
Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs by P. E. Caquet (review)0
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior0
Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing by James Elwick0
"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City": Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest0
Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe by Meg Leja (review)0
The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests by Amy Hay (review)0
“Heroin Mothers,” “Methadone Babies,” and the Medical Controversy over Methadone Maintenance in the Early 1970s0
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers: Notes of Encouragement and Caution0
The Midwife's Bag: Tracing the Objects of Professional Identity in Post-Unification Italy0
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR by Tricia Starks (review)0
The Protein Gap: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Nutrient in International Public Health0
The Art of Childbirth: A Bilingual Edition by Marie Baudoin (review)0
Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital by César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero (review)0
Writing the History of Legal Abortion0
An Artificial Appetite: The Nineteenth-Century Struggle to Define Habitual Drunkenness0
Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism by Susan Grant (review)0
Anatomy of the Medical Image: Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today ed. by Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller (review)0
Tensions of a Discipline: The First World Congress of Psychiatry in Paris, between Global Ambitions and Local Practices0
A Hospital of Her Own: British Nurses, Authority, and the Colonial Space in Interwar Palestine and Cyprus0
Acknowledgments0
Beyond Imperturbability: The Nineteenth-Century Medical Casebook as Affective Genre0
Radical Visions of American Medicine: Politics and Activism in the History of Medicine0
Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force by Jean C. Whelan0
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery: The James IV Association of Surgeons0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance by Michael Stolberg (review)0
Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri (review)0
Internal Rotation(s): Sociomaterial Practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim's Experiments on Birth Mechanics0
The War on Drugs: A History ed. by David Farber (review)0
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