Les enfants imparfaits

Imperfect Children

Social History of Medicine, Volume 30, Issue 4, November 2017


Editorial Note
Special Issue: ‘Imperfect Children’

‘Imperfect Children’ in Historical Perspective
Steven King; Steven J Taylor

‘His Whole Nature requires Development’: Education, School Life and Deafness in Wales, 1850–1914
Mike Mantin
 
‘She was frightened while pregnant by a monkey at the zoo’: Constructing the Mentally-imperfect Child in Nineteenth-century England
Steven J Taylor

Hyperactive Around the World? The History of ADHD in Global Perspective
Matthew Smith
 
Impaired Children in Eighteenth-century England
David M Turner
 
Where the Wild Things Were: Victor of Aveyron and the Pre-Emptive Critique of Developmental Disability in the Early Modern Novel
C F Goodey
 
Focus on ‘Imperfect Children’

David Wright, SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children
Lisa Joy Pruitt


Book reviews

Iain Hutchison, Malcolm Nicolson and Lawrence Weaver (eds), Child Health in Scotland: A History of Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Gabrielle Barr
 
Stephen E. Mawdsley, Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Dora Vargha

David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800
David B Goldstein

Sabine Arnaud, On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1720
Katharine Hodgkin

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
 
Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes and Wendy Mitchinson (eds), Essays on Gender and Health, 1800–2000
Karen Flynn
 
James G. Hanley, Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872
Lesley Hulonce

Aya Homei and Michael Worboys, Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States, 1850–2000. Mycoses and Modernity
Anne Hardy

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed
Lisa Rosner

William Feindel and Richard Leblanc, The Wounded Brain Healed: The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984
Stephen T Casper

Andreas-Holger Maehle, Contesting Medical Confidentiality. Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
Larry Frohman
 
The Recovery Revolution: The Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States
Alex Mold
 
Jessica Van Horssen, A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health and Resilience in a Resource Community
Jock McCulloch
 
Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton, Murder and the Making of English CSI
Amy Bell
 
Susanne M. Klausen, Abortion under Apartheid. Nationalism, Sexuality and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa
Anne Digby

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture
Tatjana Buklijas

Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (eds), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (eds), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period
Edward A Alpers