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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

Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):1-10. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0000.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588198 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0000 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelly O'Donnell Naomi Rogers Source Type: research

From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):11-21. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0001.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588199 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0001 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Leslie J Reagan Source Type: research

Writing the History of Legal Abortion
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):22-29. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0002.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588200 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0002 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Johanna Schoen Source Type: research

A View from Northern Mexico: Abortions before Roe v. Wade 
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):30-38. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0003.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588201 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0003 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lina-Maria Murillo Source Type: research

 Dobbs in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):39-47. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0004.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588202 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0004 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brianna Theobald Source Type: research

"It Gives the Mother the Best Chance for Her Life": U.S. Catholic Health Care and the Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):48-56. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0005.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588203 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0005 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jessica Martucci Source Type: research

Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):57-66. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0006.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588204 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0006 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelly O'Donnell Source Type: research

Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy and the Emergence of Ecological Malariology Within and Beyond Imperial Britain
This article explores the extent to which the emergence of networked conceptions of etiology and network-oriented approaches to the organization of medical practice were historically congruent. Focusing on interwar malariology, it contextualizes the development of ecological approaches to infection management and control in terms of mosquito-borne malariotherapeutic practice. In Britain, mosquito breeding programs directed toward the therapeutic infection of mental hospital patients prompted malariologists to modify and refine existing environmental approaches to malaria. Breeding mosquitoes, attending to patients, and mai...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tom Quick Source Type: research

The Origins of Camphill and the Legacy of the Asylum in Disability History
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):100-126. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0008.ABSTRACTThis essay analyzes the beginnings of the Camphill movement, an international network of intentional communities for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. At its founding in Scotland in 1939, Camphill was a community of refugees; both the staff and first disabled residents fled Nazi Austria and Germany. This circumstance precipitated an innovation: disabled and nondisabled people lived together in a family-style household. But the innovation was not so much in Camphill's structure: it was common for nineteenth and early tw...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Katherine Sorrels Source Type: research

"Heroin Mothers," "Methadone Babies," and the Medical Controversy over Methadone Maintenance in the Early 1970s
This article situates the emergence of sensationalized news reports of "infant addicts" and the concurrently evolving study of neonatal drug withdrawal within the context of the expansion of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in the United States. It details how, in the early 1970s, concerns about pregnant narcotic addicts and their infants became part of the politically charged debate over methadone maintenance. The popular press amplified the apprehensions of a vocal group of pediatricians who saw in infants' withdrawal an indication of methadone's inherent harmfulness and potential toxicity. Increased access to MMT a...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ulrich Koch Source Type: research

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Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(1):176-178. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.0020.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588208 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.0020 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Elaine LaFay Source Type: research

Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg
Bull Hist Med. 2023;97(2):181-196. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905728.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588244 | DOI:10.1353/bhm.2023.a905728 (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Allan M Brandt Charles Rosenberg Source Type: research

The Many Colors of Excrement: Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm
This article suggests that the little-known Yuan dynasty treatise On the Art of Nourishing Life (1338), which is notable for extending Chinese phlegm theory in unprecedented ways, was pivotal for this transformation. Noting a strong resemblance of the innovations of this treatise with Galenic medical theories, this article argues that they were inspired by an encounter with the Galenic medical tradition. It submits that these novel ideas radically altered preexisting Chinese understandings of the body's materiality and the nature of disease, and calls for closer attention to the transcultural movements of theories and conc...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Natalie K öhle Source Type: research