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Social History of Medicine

Volume 28 Issue 4 November 2015















Original Articles

Mona Rautelin
Cryptic Pregnancies and their Legal Consequences in Pre-Modern Finland 

Owen Davies and Francesca Matteoni
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’: The Hanged Man's Hand, Gallows Tradition and Healing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England

Angela McCarthy
Migration and Madness at Sea: The Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Voyage to New Zealand

Linda Bryder
Fathers and Hospital Childbirth in New Zealand

Terence D. Keel
Charles V. Roman and the Spectre of Polygenism in Progressive Era Public Health Research

Jennifer Crane
‘The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’: The Battered Child Syndrome in Post-war Britain and America

David Higgins and Geoffrey Tweedale
‘A Chequered (and Mated) Scientific Career’: Robert Case and the Politics of Occupational Bladder Cancer

José Martínez-Pérez and Mercedes Del Cura
Bolstering the Greatness of the Homeland: Productivity, Disability and Medicine in Franco's Spain, 1938–1966

Nancy D. Campbell and Laura Stark
Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects and the Subjective Experience of Medical Experiment

Lindsey Earner-Byrne
‘Dear Father my health has broken down’: Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922–1940

Jeannette Madarász-Lebenhagen
Medico-politics of Gendered Health: The Case of Cardiovascular Prevention in East and West Germany, 1949–1990


Second Opinion

Gemma Blok
‘Insane emigrants’ in transit. Psychiatric Patients' Files as a Source for the History of Return Migration, c. 1910


Sources and Resources

Allister Neher
William Clift's Sketches of Executed Murderers 


Focus on Biography

Fran Badger
Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-century Midwives and their Patients

Kathy Davis
Paula J. Martin. Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France

Laura Stark
Barron H. Lerner, The Good Doctor: A Father, A Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

Anthea Callen
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti (ed.), War, Art and Surgery: The Work of Henry Tonks and Julia Midgley

Andrew Seaton
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds, Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan 


Book Reviews

Laurence Totelin
Steven M. Oberhelman (ed.), Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present

Erin Wilson
Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton (eds), Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832

Timothy A. Hickman
Julia Skelly, Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751–1919: Wasted Looks

Katherine Foxhall
Krista Maglen, The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone 

Richard Gorski
Tim Carter, Merchant Seamen's Health, 1860–1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain

David N. Livingstone
Jessica Howell, Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate 

Mathilde Hackmann
Annett Büttner, Die konfessionelle Kriegskrankenpflege im 19. Jahrhundert

Sheila Dickson
Jens Gründler, Armut und Wahnsinn: ‘Arme Irre’ und ihre Familien im Spannungsfeld von Psychiatrie und Armenfürsorge in Glasgow, 1875–1921
 
Despo Kritsotaki
Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s)

Ruth J. Prince
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

Nancy K. Bristow
Sandra Opdycke, The Flu Epidemic of 1918: America's Experience in the Global Health Crisis

Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña
María Isabel Porras Gallo, Mariano Ayarzagüena Sanz, Jaime de las Heras Salord and María José Báguena Cervellera (eds), El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la España franquista

David Luesink
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Lesley Hall
Clare Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Anita Winkler
Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Timothy Cooper
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective

Anthony M. Petro
Gary B. Ferngren. Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Virginia Berridge
Rod Philips, Alcohol a History

Beatrix Hoffman
Teresa Ortiz-Gómez and María Jesús Santesmas (eds), Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives