Project MUSE®: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 55 (2000) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences1468-43730022-5045Latest articles in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Correction to: Making Medical History Relevant to Medical Students: The First Fifty Years of the Calgary History of Medicine Program and History of Medicine Days Conferences
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988630
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This is a correction to: Frank W Stahnisch, Making Medical History Relevant to Medical Students: The First Fifty Years of the Calgary History of Medicine Program and History of Medicine Days Conferences, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2023; jrac044, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrac044In the originally published version of this manuscript, there were several errors related to tables and captions. Table 1 should show the statistic chart from Table 3. The caption of Table 3 should read: "Percentage of Previous Prizes (Incl. Follower-up Status) Awarded to Students from Various Universities" and Table 3 should show the statistic chart from Table 4. The caption under Table 4 should read
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallCorrection to: Making Medical History Relevant to Medical Students: The First Fifty Years of the Calgary History of Medicine Program and History of Medicine Days Conferences2026-04-28text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Making Medical History Relevant to Medical Students: The First Fifty Years of the Calgary History of Medicine Program and History of Medicine Days Conferences2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®29002026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Correction to: History's Toolbox in Health Professions Education: One Skill-Based Session on Social Determinants of Health
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988631
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This is a correction to: Susan Lamb, History's Toolbox in Health Professions Education: One Skill-Based Session on Social Determinants of Health, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 20–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrac040In the originally published version of this manuscript, the surname of Dorothy Roberts, author of 'Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century', was inadvertently erroneously cited as 'Porter' in two instances on page 22.This error has been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallCorrection to: History's Toolbox in Health Professions Education: One Skill-Based Session on Social Determinants of Health2026-04-28text/htmlen-USCorrection to: History's Toolbox in Health Professions Education: One Skill-Based Session on Social Determinants of Health2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®20342026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Medicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–1900
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988632
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In February 1824, Lord Amherst, the Governor General at Fort Williams, Calcutta, declared that the relations between the East Indian Company (EIC) and the Burmese kingdom had strained due to the latter's aggression and hostilities. The Burmese conquest of Assam, he pronounced, had threatened the company possessions at the north east frontier and "insulted" the British power.1 Soon after this declaration was made public, troops were ordered to march into Assam under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Macmorine. Along with forcing the Burmese to evacuate, they were asked to produce maps and for the "attainment of as much geographical knowledge on or beyond…the eastern frontier as the present or expected
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallMedicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–19002026-04-28text/htmlen-USMedicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–19002026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1752052026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Which Stranger's Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988633
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On 27 March 1804, twenty-four recruits recently arrived from Spain became patients of the Hospital de San Ambrosio, a former Jesuit seminary turned military hospital in Havana. In a wing set aside, local doctor Tomás Romay cut neat incisions into each of their arms. He then swabbed their wounds with lymph harvested from patients recently inoculated with cowpox.1 For weeks, doctors monitored their symptoms and watched as pustules formed and scabbed along their limbs. Two of the patients would have developed a severe fever, intense thirst, and acute pain throughout their bodies. Their skin and eyes would have grown red, their breathing cut short, and their livers hard to the touch. With the little energy that they
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallWhich Stranger's Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions2026-04-28text/htmlen-USWhich Stranger's Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1809572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Contagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988634
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Why do magnets attract iron? Why do people fall in love? Why does water repel oil? And why is it that, if you have two tambourines near each other, one made from the skin of a wolf and the other from the skin of a sheep, you will find that the latter remains silent when struck?1 For pre- and early-modern natural philosophers, these were all occult phenomena — that is to say, phenomena occluded from reason and the senses — that indicated the presence of the forces of sympathy and antipathy. The notions of sympathy and antipathy had ancient roots in Stoicism and Platonism. They were predicated on the idea of a World Soul that imparted order and harmony to the material world and that, consequently, generated a network
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallContagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano2026-04-28text/htmlen-USContagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1302542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28The Influential Influenza: The "Russian Catarrh" Pandemic of 1781-1782
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988635
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In the fall of 1781, an influenza outbreak arrived in St. Petersburg, bringing the city to a standstill until the end of January 1782. From St. Petersburg, it spread along the Baltic coast into Prussia and Poland in February, Denmark by March, Britain by April, and then throughout the Mediterranean basin in the summer. In its wake, physicians across Europe extensively documented the causes of the illness, its symptoms, and potential treatments; many of these accounts were published within months of the disease's arrival. Despite the plethora of data gathered, there was little agreement about the outbreak. This debate was particularly pointed among adherents of neo-Hippocratic, miasmatic, or contagionist positions.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallThe Influential Influenza: The "Russian Catarrh" Pandemic of 1781-17822026-04-28text/htmlen-USThe Influential Influenza: The "Russian Catarrh" Pandemic of 1781-17822026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1031592026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988636
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Maladies of Empire revisits an argument that historians across the world have made repeatedly: that empire, war, and slavery have driven and shaped modern public health. Lucidly written, the book details how various European and American physicians (and one nurse in particular) produced and compiled epidemiological data, tested theories and techniques; it maps the field "not only at the familiar hubs of medical research but also at sites of imperialism, slavery, war and dispossession" (p. 5). In doing so, the book claims to decenter Eurocentric narratives of the origins of epidemiology.Maladies has a sweeping chronological and spatial framework, but Downs begins his book with an account of the "Black Hole of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallMaladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USMaladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®115602026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988637
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Discussions of transgender medicine are increasingly common in both academia and popular culture. Quite a bit of the scholarly work being done is historical, and aims to resurrect and retell the stories of the (long) history of trans forms of subjecthood and domains of biomedicine, including the work of Jules Gill-Petersen and the works of Jacob Moses, Beans Velocci, and Elliot Marrow, to name a few.1 In Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution, Alison Li adds to this space by contributing the first full-length biography of Dr. Harry Benjamin, an early figure in the institutionalization of transgender medicine.In Wondrous Transformations
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallWondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USWondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®100682026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 by Projit Bihari Mukharji (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988638
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Projit Bihari Mukharji's magisterial account of seroanthropology in mid-twentieth-century India, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66, interlinks the identitarian politics of the fledgling postcolonial nation with notions of inherited differences between blood groups. It conjures up a "scientific" world of incessant classification, driven by the urge to place the diversity of the Indian citizenry in the global academic gaze of racialization as the field notes of colonial "ethnographers" hardened into the statistical objectivity of late-colonial and post-colonial "research scientists" (p. 41). Yet far from narrating the perpetuity of colonial episteme in the postcolonial era that has often been a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallBrown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 by Projit Bihari Mukharji (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USBrown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 by Projit Bihari Mukharji (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®88592026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Medicine as Science: The Making of Disciplinary Identity from Scientific Medicine to Biomedicine by Phillip H. Roth (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988639
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Philip H. Roth's first monograph follows the development of "medicine" from an elite profession in Europe in the eighteenth century, through the competing research and practice ideologies behind what in English we call "scientific medicine" in Germany in the nineteenth century, to the supercategory of "biomedicine" in the United States (and elsewhere) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book begins and ends with the "crisis" of biomedicine in the 1990s and early 2000s, when critics complained that scientists' promises that their basic research could and would be translated into improvements in patients' lives had not been fulfilled. Why have some observers in Western societies become so disappointed by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallMedicine as Science: The Making of Disciplinary Identity from Scientific Medicine to Biomedicine by Phillip H. Roth (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USMedicine as Science: The Making of Disciplinary Identity from Scientific Medicine to Biomedicine by Phillip H. Roth (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®87332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician by Katherine L. Carroll (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988640
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The history and material makeup of hospitals has been thoroughly attended to through the work of Jeanne Kisacky, Carla Yanni, Leslie Topp, and Annmarie Adams. What makes Building Schools, Making Doctors unique to this pool of scholarship is its attention to the medical school (rather than the hospital) as a built environment. In taking the design of medical schools as its focus, the author traces the alignment of architectural shifts and changes in scientific emphasis, pedagogical approach, professional identity, financial incentives, and public perception of medicine and medical education in this context. All of this, she argues, is embodied by the layout, equipment, and furnishing of the medical school building —
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallBuilding Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician by Katherine L. Carroll (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USBuilding Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician by Katherine L. Carroll (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®90522026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition by Lisa Haushofer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988641
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Here in the United Kingdom, and especially at a football match, you might buy a cup of hot Bovril, rather than tea or coffee, to warm up on cold terraces. A salty, meaty, beef-drink — a sort of thin gravy — Bovril is a product which could not have been conjured up today. While I have not had Bovril since I can remember, I maintain that Marmite on buttery toast is the superior breakfast. A thick, sticky, yeast spread (apparently a waste product from the brewing industry), Marmite seems similarly anachronistic in a twenty-first-century kitchen. Although neither of these products is directly discussed in Wonder Foods, the remarkable achievement of this book is that we still glean an understanding of their history and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallWonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition by Lisa Haushofer (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USWonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition by Lisa Haushofer (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®101232026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Correction to: Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988642
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This is a correction to:Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2024;, jrae016, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae016In footnotes 44 and 45 of the originally published version of this article, Michael Whitmire was erroneously referred to as Michael Whitmore.This error has been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallCorrection to: Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin2026-04-28text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®24732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Fearing Meningitis: Disease, Emotions and the Spotted Fever Epidemics of 1904-1907
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988643
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Between 1904 and 1907, meningitis outbreaks erupted across the western world. Initially feared, meningitis transformed from a dreaded killer into a more manageable disease in a remarkably brief time period. Nowadays, we know that meningitis is typically viral (more rarely, bacterial) and spread by close contact activities such as coughing, sneezing, or kissing. However in 1904, understandings of meningitis – then still vaguely termed spotted fever - remained uncertain and contested, although doctors mostly agreed on the problem being germ-based. In the opening years of the twentieth century, doctors debated the causes and epidemiology of meningitis in the context of a burgeoning medical modernity, replete with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallFearing Meningitis: Disease, Emotions and the Spotted Fever Epidemics of 1904-19072026-04-28text/htmlen-USFearing Meningitis: Disease, Emotions and the Spotted Fever Epidemics of 1904-19072026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1566892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92 by Laura Kelly (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988644
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A tour de force of feminist history, Laura Kelly's Contraception and Modern Ireland is an intimate exploration of reproductive health and activism in the twentieth century. The story begins with the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922) and ends with the Health Amendment Act of 1992, which allowed adults to acquire contraceptives without a prescription. The twentieth century gave rise to a coalition between Irish nationalists — who associated contraceptives with degenerate English morals — and the papal hierarchy, which adopted an increasingly anti-contraceptive stance acrost the twentieth century. Over nine chapters, Kelly first tracks the effect of pronatalism on people's lives, and then shows how
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/92/image/coversmallContraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92 by Laura Kelly (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USContraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92 by Laura Kelly (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®91032026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28