Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):347-364. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.31. Epub 2023 Oct 13.ABSTRACTThe paper examines the introduction of trained female nurses for the British army men in colonial India between 1888 and 1920. It discusses the genesis of the Indian Nursing Service (INS), including the background and negotiations leading up to its formation, terms of employment, duties and working conditions of the nursing sisters. The memoir of Catharine Grace Loch, who served as the first Chief Lady Superintendent of the service is used extensively to trace the early experiences and challenges of the nursing sisters. The paper primarily...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Preethi Mariam George John Bosco Lourdusamy Source Type: research
The power of the 'universal': caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900-1940
This article explores missionary medical discourses in three Telugu journals published in the early twentieth century, to analyse how caste pivoted denunciations of alcohol, especially toddy and arrack, in the Madras Presidency and the Hyderabad state. It argues that one women's missionary journal, Vivekavathi, deployed medical knowledge to formulate subtle and occasionally explicit condemnations of toddy and arrack as unclean and unhealthy substances. The journal relied on universal medical and missionary, British and American knowledge frameworks to mark out Dalits and other marginalised castes as consumers of these loca...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tarangini Sriraman Source Type: research
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):285-306. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.28. Epub 2023 Oct 13.ABSTRACTReproductive health in state socialism is usually viewed as an area in which the broader contexts of women's lives were disregarded. Focusing on expert efforts to reduce premature births, we show that the social aspects of women's lives received the most attention. In contrast to typical descriptions emphasising technological medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, we show that expertise in early socialism was concerned with socio-medical causes of prematurity, particularly work and marriage. The interest in physical work in the 1950s ev...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kate řina Lišková Natalia Jarska Annina Gagyiova Jos é Luis Aguilar López-Barajas Šárka Caitlín Rábová Source Type: research
MDH volume 67 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):f1. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.34. Epub 2023 Oct 13.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37828848 | DOI:10.1017/mdh.2023.34 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
'Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit': Hospital Leagues of Friends in the English West Midlands, c. 1948-1998
This article uses case studies of Leagues in the English West Midlands to show how 'friendship' symbolised the relationship between local NHS institutions and the communities they served. The cases show that voluntarism in British healthcare has not always been based around activism and consumerism, two areas that recent scholarship has rightly highlighted, especially from the 1960s. This allows historians to interrogate the regional and local differences within, ostensibly, a highly centralised national health system.PMID:37818107 | PMC:PMC10561705 | DOI:10.1093/shm/hkad031 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - October 11, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gareth Millward Source Type: research
'Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit': Hospital Leagues of Friends in the English West Midlands, c. 1948-1998
This article uses case studies of Leagues in the English West Midlands to show how 'friendship' symbolised the relationship between local NHS institutions and the communities they served. The cases show that voluntarism in British healthcare has not always been based around activism and consumerism, two areas that recent scholarship has rightly highlighted, especially from the 1960s. This allows historians to interrogate the regional and local differences within, ostensibly, a highly centralised national health system.PMID:37818107 | PMC:PMC10561705 | DOI:10.1093/shm/hkad031 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - October 11, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gareth Millward Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in gestational diabetes
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Aug 19;16:6. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753523 | PMC:PMC10518638 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mojgan Asadi Farzaneh Zahedi Mahbube Ebrahimpur Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in conducting and the clinical application of human microbiome research
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Jul 7;16:5. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753524 | PMC:PMC10518636 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hanieh Sadat Ejtahed Mojtaba Parsa Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
The extent of government intervention in the public health system and individual freedoms during the Covid-19 pandemic: a theoretical analysis
This study intended to investigate the concept of freedom according to major theories and to observe their application in analyzing the relations between individuals and the government in the health system, particularly during public health emergencies. The findings revealed that "justice-based", "development-based" and "accountability-based" conceptions of freedom provide a more appropriate rationale for implementation of public health restrictive measures by health authorities during infectious disease outbreaks including pandemics such as COVID-19. Even in minimal governments that are built upon a free-market system and...
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Vahid Moazzen Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in gestational diabetes
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Aug 19;16:6. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753523 | PMC:PMC10518638 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mojgan Asadi Farzaneh Zahedi Mahbube Ebrahimpur Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in conducting and the clinical application of human microbiome research
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Jul 7;16:5. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753524 | PMC:PMC10518636 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hanieh Sadat Ejtahed Mojtaba Parsa Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
The extent of government intervention in the public health system and individual freedoms during the Covid-19 pandemic: a theoretical analysis
This study intended to investigate the concept of freedom according to major theories and to observe their application in analyzing the relations between individuals and the government in the health system, particularly during public health emergencies. The findings revealed that "justice-based", "development-based" and "accountability-based" conceptions of freedom provide a more appropriate rationale for implementation of public health restrictive measures by health authorities during infectious disease outbreaks including pandemics such as COVID-19. Even in minimal governments that are built upon a free-market system and...
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Vahid Moazzen Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in gestational diabetes
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Aug 19;16:6. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753523 | PMC:PMC10518638 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i6.13470 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mojgan Asadi Farzaneh Zahedi Mahbube Ebrahimpur Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
Ethical challenges in conducting and the clinical application of human microbiome research
J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2023 Jul 7;16:5. doi: 10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313. eCollection 2023.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37753524 | PMC:PMC10518636 | DOI:10.18502/jmehm.v16i5.13313 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hanieh Sadat Ejtahed Mojtaba Parsa Bagher Larijani Source Type: research
The extent of government intervention in the public health system and individual freedoms during the Covid-19 pandemic: a theoretical analysis
This study intended to investigate the concept of freedom according to major theories and to observe their application in analyzing the relations between individuals and the government in the health system, particularly during public health emergencies. The findings revealed that "justice-based", "development-based" and "accountability-based" conceptions of freedom provide a more appropriate rationale for implementation of public health restrictive measures by health authorities during infectious disease outbreaks including pandemics such as COVID-19. Even in minimal governments that are built upon a free-market system and...
Source: Medical History - September 27, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Vahid Moazzen Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki Source Type: research
