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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986055
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Over the course of the approximately 150 years since the introduction of photographic technology to Africa, it has been employed in a myriad of manners and settings related to health.1 In colonial contexts, photographers captured medical encounters between missionary doctors or colonial medical officers and colonial subjects, and photographs were deployed in patient record keeping or as visual aids in the diagnosis of specific diseases and their documentation for scientific purposes. Throughout the twentieth century, as photography grew more mobile and accessible, photographs captured health systems in action, public health education campaigns, and the work of research institutions. Recent decades have added the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallSpecial Issue Introduction: Photographs as Sources for African Histories of Health and Healing2026-03-23text/htmlen-USSpecial Issue Introduction: Photographs as Sources for African Histories of Health and Healing2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®781302026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Being Seen to Care: Photographs, Audiences, and the Swiss Medical Mission in Colonial Mozambique at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986056
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The written records of the Mission Suisse Romande, or Swiss Mission, have been a crucial resource for histories of present-day Southern Mozambique and Northeastern South Africa, the regions in which this organization was present and exercised influence from the late nineteenth century.1 Texts written by missionaries and occasionally by their African converts have informed studies of Portuguese colonial expansion and African resistance to it, of the construction of ethnic identities, of transborder labor migration and of mine worker politics and culture, of anticolonial nationalist movements, of conversion and spirituality, of gendered relations of power and forms of history making.2 Yet while scholars have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallBeing Seen to Care: Photographs, Audiences, and the Swiss Medical Mission in Colonial Mozambique at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2026-03-23text/htmlen-USBeing Seen to Care: Photographs, Audiences, and the Swiss Medical Mission in Colonial Mozambique at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®1038092026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986057
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Since the eighteenth century, Western scientific enquiry donned an ethos of “blind sight”—a way of seeing that ensured the objective observation and transcription of the material world.1 This impartiality functioned as what Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison call an “epistemic virtue” of science—vision and visual representation were to be objective, with the observer’s influence reduced to nil. As a mechanical tool, the camera was seen to offer a direct transcription of surface appearance.2 For medicine, the medium embodied a similar way of seeing, ultimately promising that disease too was fundamentally scopic and thus that “diagnosis was possible on the basis of the image alone.”3Scholars of medical images in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallSurface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa2026-03-23text/htmlen-USSurface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®1141602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Visions of (Tuberculosis) Control: Medical Photographs in Mau Mau–Era Kenya
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986058
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This article examines the apparent lack of intersection between tuberculosis control initiatives in late colonial Kenya and the context of extreme violence and widespread upheaval in which they occurred. The 1950s were a decade of remarkable advances in TB research and control globally, and recent scholarship has noted the centrality of Kenya during this period as a laboratory for testing and developing new control and treatment regimens.1 Yet historical source material produced by medical officers, colonial officials, doctors, and researchers working in Kenya for the colonial government or the World Health Organization (WHO) is largely silent on the turbulent political context in which this work took place: the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallVisions of (Tuberculosis) Control: Medical Photographs in Mau Mau–Era Kenya2026-03-23text/htmlen-USVisions of (Tuberculosis) Control: Medical Photographs in Mau Mau–Era Kenya2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®1499452026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Colonial Visions and Their Rearticulations: Ways of Looking at Early Twentieth-Century Medical Images of Skin Difference in Malawi
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986059
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This article examines a number of photographs depicting skin variation taken by Dr. Hugh Stannus Stannus, a medical officer in the British protectorate of Nyasaland (present-day Malawi), during the period 1909–1912.1 Understandings of skin color as a marker of human difference predate the formal colonization of Africa. Seventeenth-century European writings on Africa, from travel accounts to pro- and antislavery tracts, read skin color as a marker of physical and moral difference. The emergence of theories of race rested on positions that categorized humans according to differences in biological and phenotypical traits. European and American scholars adhered to the belief that nonwhite bodies were inherently
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallColonial Visions and Their Rearticulations: Ways of Looking at Early Twentieth-Century Medical Images of Skin Difference in Malawi2026-03-23text/htmlen-USColonial Visions and Their Rearticulations: Ways of Looking at Early Twentieth-Century Medical Images of Skin Difference in Malawi2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®1066112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986060
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The regular meeting of the AAHM Council was held in conjunction with the ninety-eighth annual meeting and called to order by President Mary Fissell at 1:00 pm in the Hampton Room at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. All officers and council members were present except Projit Mukharji and Deborah Doroshow. Council reviewed, discussed, and accepted the reports of the secretary, treasurer, and the association’s standing committees. Council discussed and passed motions on the issues summarized on pp. 724–25.AAHM Council continued the practice of regularly meeting by Zoom throughout the year. The council members met September 20 and November 22, 2024, and January 24 and March 6, 2025, to address issues
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallAmerican Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting2026-03-23text/htmlen-USAmerican Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®1082192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23News and Events
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986061
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Mary Fissell (President), Laura Hirshbein (Vice President), Sarah Hand-ley-Cousins (Secretary), Scott Podolsky (Treasurer), Barron Lerner (Immediate Past President)Council (2023–2026): Prinisha Badassy, Pratik Chakrabarti, Deborah Doro-show, Abena Dove Osseo-AsareCouncil (2024–2027): Hafeeza Anchrunum, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Carrie Meyer, Chris WilloughbyCouncil (2025–2028): Christoph Gradmann, Raúl Necochea López, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Courtney ThompsonNOTE: When the term of a committee member extends beyond 2025–2028, the year in which the appointment terminates is shown in parentheses after the member’s name.Committee on Annual MeetingsJennifer Gunn (Chair), Sarah Rose, Jacob Steere-Williams, Tess
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986062
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The Bulletin reserves freedom of decision as to the publications to be included in this section. Items received, other than those reviewed, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Institute of the History of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallBooks Received2026-03-23text/htmlen-USBooks Received2026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®80302026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Subject and Author Index: Volume 99
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986063
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Pagination according to issues:No. 1 (Spring): 1–286  No. 2 (Summer): 287–428  No. 3 (Fall): 429–578  No. 4 (Winter): 579–7783D Models: Sellheim’s experiments on birth mechanics” (Schlünder): 122–55Abortion: techniques and technologies in pre-Roe South Carolina (Sundstrom, Ware, & Delay): 211–35Activism: cost and ethics of chimpanzee HIV/AIDS research, 1983–2000 (Prial): 516–41African history: photographs as sources for histories of health and healing (van Zyl-Hermann & Williams): 579–93Alternative medicine: self-healing and nutrition therapy in HIV/AIDS (Vale): 542–69American South: abortion technologies in pre-Roe South Carolina (Sundstrom, Ware, & Delay): 211–35Anti-vivisection: cost and ethics of chimpanzee
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallSubject and Author Index: Volume 992026-03-23text/htmlen-USSubject and Author Index: Volume 992026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®246782026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23Table of Contents: Volume 99
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Special IssueReproductive ObjectsGuest Editors: Scottie Buehler and Margaret CarlyleReproductive Objects / 1  Scottie Buehler and Margaret Carlyle“Absolute Necessity”: The Discovery of the Fetal Heartbeat with the  Stethoscope, and Its Impact on Obstetric Practice in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1820–1840 / 17Caroline AveryConstructing Centimeters: Emanuel Friedman’s Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve / 51Rebecca JacksonThe Midwife’s Bag: Tracing the Objects of Professional Identity in Post-Unification Italy / 94Jennifer KosminInternal Rotation(s): Sociomaterial Practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim’s Experiments on Birth Mechanics / 122 Martina SchlünderHigh-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24/image/coversmallTable of Contents: Volume 992026-03-23text/htmlen-USTable of Contents: Volume 992026-03-232026TWOProject MUSE®58412026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-23