MDH volume 68 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
Med Hist. 2024 Jan;68(1):f1. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.16. Epub 2024 Apr 18.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38632886 | DOI:10.1017/mdh.2024.16 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - April 18, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Windows of Opportunity: Tobacco Control in South Africa, 1948-2018
This article examines the political history of tobacco control policy in South Africa from 1948 to 2018 by drawing on available historical documents, media reports, published books and articles, the grey literature, and face-to-face interviews with key policy actors. Tracing the historical evolution of tobacco control policies in South Africa reveals how embedded opposition from vested interest groups at every stage of the policy process complicates responses to the tobacco issue. This case study demonstrates how, despite such embedded difficulties, a confluence of regime change, evidence-based messaging, political will, p...
Source: Medical History - April 13, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo Source Type: research
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Windows of Opportunity: Tobacco Control in South Africa, 1948-2018
This article examines the political history of tobacco control policy in South Africa from 1948 to 2018 by drawing on available historical documents, media reports, published books and articles, the grey literature, and face-to-face interviews with key policy actors. Tracing the historical evolution of tobacco control policies in South Africa reveals how embedded opposition from vested interest groups at every stage of the policy process complicates responses to the tobacco issue. This case study demonstrates how, despite such embedded difficulties, a confluence of regime change, evidence-based messaging, political will, p...
Source: Medical History - April 13, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo Source Type: research
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Windows of Opportunity: Tobacco Control in South Africa, 1948-2018
This article examines the political history of tobacco control policy in South Africa from 1948 to 2018 by drawing on available historical documents, media reports, published books and articles, the grey literature, and face-to-face interviews with key policy actors. Tracing the historical evolution of tobacco control policies in South Africa reveals how embedded opposition from vested interest groups at every stage of the policy process complicates responses to the tobacco issue. This case study demonstrates how, despite such embedded difficulties, a confluence of regime change, evidence-based messaging, political will, p...
Source: Medical History - April 13, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo Source Type: research
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Windows of Opportunity: Tobacco Control in South Africa, 1948-2018
This article examines the political history of tobacco control policy in South Africa from 1948 to 2018 by drawing on available historical documents, media reports, published books and articles, the grey literature, and face-to-face interviews with key policy actors. Tracing the historical evolution of tobacco control policies in South Africa reveals how embedded opposition from vested interest groups at every stage of the policy process complicates responses to the tobacco issue. This case study demonstrates how, despite such embedded difficulties, a confluence of regime change, evidence-based messaging, political will, p...
Source: Medical History - April 13, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo Source Type: research
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763-1837
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 12:1-18. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the early nineteenth century, medical schools became a growing means of regulating medicine in the British Empire, both in the metropole and in two colonies: India and Canada. By examining the establishment of medical schools in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto between the end of the Seven Years' War and the beginning of the Victorian era, this article argues that the rise of the British Empire was a key factor in the gradual replacement of private medical apprenticeships with institutional medical education. Al...
Source: Medical History - April 12, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Martin Robert Source Type: research
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763-1837
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 12:1-18. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the early nineteenth century, medical schools became a growing means of regulating medicine in the British Empire, both in the metropole and in two colonies: India and Canada. By examining the establishment of medical schools in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto between the end of the Seven Years' War and the beginning of the Victorian era, this article argues that the rise of the British Empire was a key factor in the gradual replacement of private medical apprenticeships with institutional medical education. Al...
Source: Medical History - April 12, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Martin Robert Source Type: research
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892-1931
This article suggests that it is possible to identify two distinct trends in the creation of health ministries in Latin America. The first, of an early nature, was seen principally in Central America and the Caribbean in countries dependent on or under the influence of the United States which, from the 1880s, promoted health Pan-Americanism. The second trend, which became apparent from 1924, was characterised by the emergence of ministries in a context of institutional breakdown and the appearance of new actors (military or populist leaders). This second trend was first seen in Chile in 1924. This article analyses the crea...
Source: Medical History - April 11, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Diego Barr ía Traverso Diego Romero Pavez Source Type: research
Breakdown and reform: the Chilean road to the creation of ministries of hygiene and social welfare 1892-1931
This article suggests that it is possible to identify two distinct trends in the creation of health ministries in Latin America. The first, of an early nature, was seen principally in Central America and the Caribbean in countries dependent on or under the influence of the United States which, from the 1880s, promoted health Pan-Americanism. The second trend, which became apparent from 1924, was characterised by the emergence of ministries in a context of institutional breakdown and the appearance of new actors (military or populist leaders). This second trend was first seen in Chile in 1924. This article analyses the crea...
Source: Medical History - April 11, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Diego Barr ía Traverso Diego Romero Pavez Source Type: research
'The god of criminals is their belly': diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 8:1-21. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.36. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExisting scholarship on prison diets has emphasised the role of food and its restriction as a key aspect of the deterrent system of prison discipline introduced in the 1860s. Here we suggest that a strong emphasis was placed on dietary regulation after the establishment of the reformist, but also 'testing', separate system of confinement in the mid-nineteenth century. While the impact of diet on the physical health of prisoners was a major concern, we argue that the psychological impact of food was also stressed, and some prison administrato...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Catherine Cox Hilary Marland Source Type: research
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 8:1-21. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.11. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn 1851, the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies established a two-year program to educate young Javanese men to become vaccinators in Batavia (today's Jakarta). During the following sixty years, the medical curriculum was expanded several times; in 1913, it consisted of a ten-year program. In 1927, the Batavia Medical School, granting degrees equivalent to those of Dutch university-affiliated medical schools, commenced operations. Consequently, a steadily increasing number of Indonesian physicians with various credentials were ...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hans Pols Source Type: research
Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 8:1-19. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.38. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper reexamines the sources used by N. Fancy and M.H. Green in "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)" (Medical History, 65/2 (2021), 157-177). Fancy and Green argued that the Arabic and Persian descriptions of the Mongol sieges in Iran and Iraq, and in particular, in the conquest of Baghdad in 1258, indicate that the besieged fortresses and cities were struck by Plague after the Mongol sieges were lifted. This, they suggested, is part of a recurrent pattern of the outbreak of Plague transmitted by the Mongol expansion across Eurasia. ...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jonathan Brack Michal Biran Reuven Amitai Source Type: research
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592-1598
This study focuses on cold-induced injuries, epidemic outbreaks and external wounds suffered during the war. I illuminate provision of prophylactic measures against cold by the Ming state, as well as attempts by the Sino-Chosŏn medical alliance to manage epidemics and treat wounded soldiers. I contrast these measures with the lack of similar centralised support for the Japanese forces, and examine the effect these differences had upon on military outcomes during the war. The difference in the amount of time, efforts and resources that the three combatant states devoted to sick and injured soldiers has implications not onl...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Baihui Duan Source Type: research
'The god of criminals is their belly': diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 8:1-21. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.36. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExisting scholarship on prison diets has emphasised the role of food and its restriction as a key aspect of the deterrent system of prison discipline introduced in the 1860s. Here we suggest that a strong emphasis was placed on dietary regulation after the establishment of the reformist, but also 'testing', separate system of confinement in the mid-nineteenth century. While the impact of diet on the physical health of prisoners was a major concern, we argue that the psychological impact of food was also stressed, and some prison administrato...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Catherine Cox Hilary Marland Source Type: research
The expansion of medical education in the Dutch East Indies and the formation of the Indonesian medical profession
Med Hist. 2024 Apr 8:1-21. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2024.11. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn 1851, the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies established a two-year program to educate young Javanese men to become vaccinators in Batavia (today's Jakarta). During the following sixty years, the medical curriculum was expanded several times; in 1913, it consisted of a ten-year program. In 1927, the Batavia Medical School, granting degrees equivalent to those of Dutch university-affiliated medical schools, commenced operations. Consequently, a steadily increasing number of Indonesian physicians with various credentials were ...
Source: Medical History - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hans Pols Source Type: research
