Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Mr. Gilbert's World Tour: Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces
This article provides a comparative analysis of the treatment of disabled First World War veterans in 1920s Britain and the simultaneous care of Imperial Pensioners residing in Australia and South Africa via the detailed administrative reports of a British civil servant, G.F. Gilbert. Imperial Pensioners were disabled veteran migrants of the British Army residing overseas. A study of these veteran populations in Australia and South Africa provides two primary insights into the broader historiography of disabled veterans. Firstly, a comparative case study helps to show the way in which cultural notions of disability were pa...
Source: Medical History - March 21, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Michael Robinson Source Type: research
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s-1914)
This article is the first scholarly research focusing exclusively on the history of Jews with disabilities in the Kingdom of Poland from the 1860s to 1914. It analyses sources drawn from the Jewish press in Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew. Areas of investigation include the hierarchy of attitudes towards different categories of individuals with disabilities, spiritual perspectives on disability, and the portrayal of disabilities within Jewish literature. The study places particular emphasis on the Jewish deaf community, given the proliferation of available source material. Drawing on the broad conceptual framework of disabilit...
Source: Medical History - March 20, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Maria Antosik-Piela Aleksandra Oniszczuk Source Type: research
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s
Med Hist. 2024 Mar 20:1-16. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe persistent use of neurasthenia in Asia, an out-dated diagnostic category in modern psychiatry, has confounded many psychiatrists from the 1960s. This paper attempts to understand the prevalence of neurasthenia among the lay public in post-World War II Hong Kong. It examines the social history of psychiatry and focuses on the roles of traditional Chinese medicine in shaping public perceptions and responses towards neurasthenia. This research reveals that, when psychiatrists discarded the term as an ineffective label in the 1950s, practiti...
Source: Medical History - March 20, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelvin Chan Source Type: research
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s-1914)
This article is the first scholarly research focusing exclusively on the history of Jews with disabilities in the Kingdom of Poland from the 1860s to 1914. It analyses sources drawn from the Jewish press in Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew. Areas of investigation include the hierarchy of attitudes towards different categories of individuals with disabilities, spiritual perspectives on disability, and the portrayal of disabilities within Jewish literature. The study places particular emphasis on the Jewish deaf community, given the proliferation of available source material. Drawing on the broad conceptual framework of disabilit...
Source: Medical History - March 20, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Maria Antosik-Piela Aleksandra Oniszczuk Source Type: research
Commercialising everyday distress: neurasthenia and traditional Chinese medicine in colonial Hong Kong, 1950s to 1980s
Med Hist. 2024 Mar 20:1-16. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe persistent use of neurasthenia in Asia, an out-dated diagnostic category in modern psychiatry, has confounded many psychiatrists from the 1960s. This paper attempts to understand the prevalence of neurasthenia among the lay public in post-World War II Hong Kong. It examines the social history of psychiatry and focuses on the roles of traditional Chinese medicine in shaping public perceptions and responses towards neurasthenia. This research reveals that, when psychiatrists discarded the term as an ineffective label in the 1950s, practiti...
Source: Medical History - March 20, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelvin Chan Source Type: research
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s-1914)
This article is the first scholarly research focusing exclusively on the history of Jews with disabilities in the Kingdom of Poland from the 1860s to 1914. It analyses sources drawn from the Jewish press in Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew. Areas of investigation include the hierarchy of attitudes towards different categories of individuals with disabilities, spiritual perspectives on disability, and the portrayal of disabilities within Jewish literature. The study places particular emphasis on the Jewish deaf community, given the proliferation of available source material. Drawing on the broad conceptual framework of disabilit...
Source: Medical History - March 20, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Maria Antosik-Piela Aleksandra Oniszczuk Source Type: research
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia's coastal north
This article asks what this combination looked like in practice by exploring two neglected smallpox vaccination campaigns directed towards Indigenous peoples in the early twentieth century. We argue these were important campaigns because they were the first two pre-emptive, rather than reactionary, vaccination programs directed towards First Nations people. Second, both episodes occurred in Australia's northern coastline, where the porous maritime geography and proximity to Southeast Asia posed a point of vulnerability for Australian health officials. While smallpox was never endemic, (though epidemic), in Australia, it wa...
Source: Medical History - March 18, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Chi Chi Huang Alison Bashford Source Type: research
Spanish-French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation
This article studies the impact caused by the success and dissemination of Broussais' theories on the use of leeches as a medical supply on Spanish-French trade relations, as well as its consequences for the Spanish market between 1821 and the 1860s. Analysing the documents produced by the different public administrations, together with newspaper and archival sources in both Spain and France and the literature and legislation of that period, allows us to understand the evolution of this trade and the heavy impact it had on the autochthonous population of this animal resource. The article reveals how, at the beginning of th...
Source: Medical History - March 18, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Dami án Copena Mar ía Gómez-Martín Source Type: research
Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association's (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936-1967
Med Hist. 2024 Mar 18:1-23. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor the past two decades anti-abortionists in the Global North have been aggressively instrumentalising disability in order to undermine women's social autonomy, asserting, falsely, there is an insuperable conflict between disability rights and reproductive rights. The utilisation of disability in struggles over abortion access is not new, it has a history dating back to the interwar era. Indeed, decades before anti-abortionists' campaign, feminists invoked disability to expand access to safe abortion. This paper examines the feminist eugeni...
Source: Medical History - March 18, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Susanne Maria Klausen Source Type: research
