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Bull Hist Med. 2022;96(4):700-702. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0054.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38682345 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2022.0054 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 29, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
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Bull Hist Med. 2022;96(4):705-710. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0056.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38682347 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2022.0056 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 29, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550-1750
This article is conceived as a contribution to our increasing appreciation of the importance of water for drinking purposes in early modern culture. By analyzing the medical recommendations contained in the case histories and consultations of three prominent Italian doctors-Epifanio Ferdinando, Francesco Redi, and Francesco Torti-it provides evidence of shifting medical knowledge and practice in the use of drinking water. It traces how, as the medical philosophies shifted, so too did the medical use of drinking water, as both aliment (part of a healthy and healing diet) and medicament (part of therapy to treat specific dis...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: David Gentilcore Source Type: research
"Denied the Joys of Motherhood": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns
This article explores how physicians leading new specialized fertility clinics promoted the idea that their work treating infertility medically would produce more births for France. It also shows how women's magazines in the 1930s presented new treatment options to their female readership, offering them reassurance and medical advice. Women wrote into advice columns about their experiences with involuntary childlessness, sometimes expressing reluctance to seek fertility testing or continue recommended treatments. Prominent fertility specialists also contributed articles, complete with illustrations, explaining the medical ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Margaret Andersen Source Type: research
The Protein Gap: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Nutrient in International Public Health
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(4):585-613. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922708.ABSTRACTFrom the early 1950s to the early 1970s, international nutritionists considered childhood protein malnutrition the world's most serious public health threat. By 1974, many believed that this "protein gap" had been exaggerated. Two questions remain: why protein, and why this period? Four converging developments created a network that maintained protein's "charisma": new food technology, a growing international health infrastructure, the nominal demise of eugenics, and new geopolitical priorities in a world shaped by both the Cold War and decolonization...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hannah F LeBlanc Source Type: research
Underrepresented Minority Recruitment: Manpower as Motivator in Late Twentieth-Century Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy
This article offers a historical perspective on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in health professions. Historians have highlighted how workforce shortages have facilitated increased gender diversity in male-dominated scientific and clinical occupations. Less attention has been given to manpower as a motivator for enhancing racial/ethnic diversity. I explore the history of minority recruitment, retention, and inclusion initiatives in occupational therapy and physical therapy after 1970 and examine the evolving ways in which the longstanding underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority health professions studen...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Andrew J Hogan Source Type: research
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(4):658-684. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922710.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588119 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a922710 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
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Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(4):685-687. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922711.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588120 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a922711 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
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Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(4):690-695. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922713.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588122 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a922713 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
Table of Contents: Volume 97
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(4):697-701. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922714.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588123 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a922714 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
Patients, Disability, Syphilis, and History
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(3):369-393. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915267.ABSTRACTThis paper explores the experiences of working-class patients treated for tertiary syphilis at the Neurology Dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Infirmary for Nervous Disease of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital from 1878 to 1917. Using the twin lenses of medical history and disability history, it foregrounds the struggles of individuals whose physical condition cannot be reversed.PMID:38588192 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a915267 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Janet Golden Source Type: research
"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950
This article examines the development of a collaborative model of home-based reproductive caregiving in Ireland from 1900 to 1950, focusing on the interactions of different practitioners in childbirth cases in the domestic sphere. In Ireland the move to obstetrics and trained nursing and midwifery was gradual, complicated by the needs and wants of ordinary women, who were reluctant to give up their trusted care givers and who actively sought to maintain long-standing domestic health care traditions. The result was a hybrid and collaborative model of domestic reproductive health care, requiring the attention of different pr...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cara Delay Source Type: research
Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(3):423-455. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915269.ABSTRACTThe phrase "disease of civilization" and concomitant lexicons, such as "pathologies of modernization," frequently surface across public and global health discourses. This is particularly the case within the framework of cancer research in Africa. In this article, the authors trace the emergence of these grammars of progress at the beginning of the twentieth century as a biomedical lens through which to analyze and frame cancer in Africa. Arguing with Ann Stoler for a recursive understanding of colonial and postcolonial history, the authors follow in d...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Thandeka Cochrane David Reubi Source Type: research
Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-1980
This article considers the establishment of the category of "hormone-dependent cancers," identified around the middle of the twentieth century as cancers sustained by particular hormones. A comparison of hormonal treatments for prostate cancer and those for breast cancer reveals that the genesis of "hormone-dependent cancer" as a biomedical category relied upon assumptions that cast androgens and estrogens as opposing ends of a gendered hormonal binary of health and disease. In the 1930s, cancer researchers claimed "female sex hormones" (estrogens) exacerbated breast cancer and "male sex hormones" (androgens) prevented it....
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gina Surita Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
