2017 LAMBE, Jennifer L.
Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.
GMN 10666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12859
2017 OREN-MAGIDOR, Daphna
Infertility in early modern England.
GMN 10754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12950
2017 GRUBAUGH, Nathan D.; LADNER, Jason T.; KRAEMER, Moritz U.G.; ET AL
Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, …
GMN 10945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13141
2017 MAYHEW, Emily
A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.
GMN 10971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13167
2017 PLANTA, Mercedes G.
Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.
GMN 11435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13634
2017 HOKKANEN, Markku
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
GMN 12409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14639
2017 TURNER, Sasha
Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
"It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. Howeve…
GMN 12587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14826
2017 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.
"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…
GMN 12626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14866
2018 MACKINTOSH, Alan
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
GMN 9792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11980
2018 VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )
Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.
GMN 10476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12669
2018 ALTSCHULER, Sari
The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.
"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…
GMN 10525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12718
2018 WOLF, Jacqueline H.
Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.
A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…
GMN 10622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12815
2018 TERAZAWA, Yuki
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
GMN 10645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12838
2018 HERNÁNDEZ-SÁENZ, Luz Maria
Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.
GMN 11051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13247
2018 SENIOR, Emily
The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
GMN 11436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13635
2018 CAGLE, Hugh
Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.
GMN 11474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13673
2018 CILEK, Laura; CHOWELL, Gerardo; FARIÑAS, Diego Ramiro
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
GMN 12103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14312
2018 BEZKOROVAINY, Anatoly (1935 – )
Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.
Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution.
GMN 12425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14656
2018 BROWNE, Sebastian
Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.
Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, whic…
GMN 12560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14799
2018 OHRVIK, Ane
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.
"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…
GMN 12563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14802
2018 PRANSKUNIENE, Zivile; DAULIUTE, Roberta; PRANSKUNAS, Andrus; BERNATONIENE, Jurga
Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.
Open source from link.springer.com at this link.
GMN 12565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14804
2018 RIKLIKIENĖ, Olga
Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.
The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.
GMN 12566 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14805
2018 GREAVES, Ian
Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.
A report from the British Defence Medical Services.
GMN 12567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14806
2018 SANTESMASES, María Jesús
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
GMN 12614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14854
2018 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.
GMN 14032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16339
2019 WANG, Ze-Dong; WANG, Bo; WEI, Feng; ET AL
A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…
GMN 10916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13112
2019 HANSSON, Nils; WISTRAND, Jonatan
Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.
"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…
GMN 12562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14801
2019 DUVALL, Chris S.
The African roots of marijuana.
"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereot…
GMN 12844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15091
2019 SKELTON, James W. Jr.
Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.
GMN 13797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16084
2020 SHI, Zhengli (1964 – ); ZHOU, Peng; YANG, Xing-Lou
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.
This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…
GMN 12074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14283
2020 HOLMES, Edward Charles (1965 – ); WU, Fan; ZHAO, Su; ZHANG, Yong-Zhen (Zhang Yongzhen) (1964 – ); ET AL
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…
GMN 12119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14328
2020 INGHAM, Victoria A.; ANTHOUSI, Amalia; DOURIS, Vassilis; ET AL
A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.
Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…
GMN 12596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14836
2020 MARCUS, Hannah
Forbidden knowledge: Medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy.
GMN 13092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15344
2020 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.
GMN 14031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16338
2021 RECHCIGL, Miloslav Jr.
American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.
GMN 13273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15539
2021 MENZIES, Nicholas K.
Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.
"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by ke…
GMN 13785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16072
2021 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
History of hospitals in Iran, 550-1950.
GMN 14030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16337
2021 QUINLAN, Sean M.
Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.
"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…
GMN 14104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16415
2021 ARMUS, Diego; GÓMEZ, Pablo F.
The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.
GMN 14328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16653
