-
Medical History Apr 2012
Topics: Berlin; Ethics, Medical; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Psychology, Medical; Sexology
PubMed: 23166977
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2011.29 -
Medical History Jan 1967
Topics: Association; History, 18th Century; Humans; Mental Disorders; United Kingdom
PubMed: 5341035
DOI: 10.1017/s002572730001173x -
Medical History Apr 1981
Topics: Germany; Greece; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, Ancient; Humans; Philosophy, Medical
PubMed: 7012478
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300034347 -
Medical History Jan 2014This paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second...
This paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second half of the nineteenth century. Assuming that the identity of typhoid fever has to be understood within the broader concerns of the medical community in question, I show how doctors first identified Bogotá's epidemics as typhoid fever during the 1850s, and how they also attached specificity to the fever amongst other continuous fevers, such as its European and North American counterparts. I also found that, in contrast with the discussions amongst their colleagues from other countries, debates about typhoid fever in 1860-70 among doctors in Colombia were framed within the medico-geographical scheme and strongly shaped by the fear of typhoid fever appearing alongside 'paludic' fevers in the highlands. By arguing in medico-geographical and clinical terms that typhoid fever had specificity in Colombia, and by denying the medico-geographical law of antagonism between typhoid and paludic fevers proposed by the Frenchman Charles Boudin, Colombian doctors managed to question European knowledge and claimed that typhoid fever had distinct features in Colombia. The focus on paludic and typhoid fevers in the highlands might explain why the bacteriological aetiology of typhoid fever was ignored and even contested during the 1880s. Anti-Pasteurian arguments were raised against its germ identity and some physicians even supported the idea of spontaneous origin of the disease. By the 1890s, Pasteurian knowledge had come to shape clinical and hygienic practices.
Topics: Bacteriology; Colombia; Dissent and Disputes; Fever; Geography, Medical; History, 19th Century; Humans; Physicians; Typhoid Fever
PubMed: 24331213
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2013.70 -
Medical History Apr 2019Prenatal diagnosis (PND) was introduced in France in the 1970s on the initiative of medical researchers and clinicians. For many years the regulation of practices was...
Prenatal diagnosis (PND) was introduced in France in the 1970s on the initiative of medical researchers and clinicians. For many years the regulation of practices was self-imposed, decentralised and idiosyncratic. The advent of 'therapeutic modernity' in the 1990s gave rise to an ethical, legal and scientific framework designed to homogenise PND at a national level, with the creation of multidisciplinary centres (CPDPN) and the Agence de la biomédecine. This article first recovers the history of PND in France. It then compares the activities of two CPDPNs, using ethnographic fieldwork and by analysing national quantitative data compiled by the Agence. It argues that the official policy of nationally homogeneous practices is not born out in practice, at the local level. This lack of homogeneity is most apparent in the number of authorisations for pregnancy termination due to foetal malformation, which varies considerably from one centre to another. Rooted in local culture, this variation relates to organisational methods, decision-making processes and variable levels of tolerance towards the risk of disability. Foetal medicine practitioners, thus, maintain a certain amount of autonomy that is collective rather than individual and that is reflected in the particular 'identity' of a given centre.
Topics: Abortion, Therapeutic; Female; France; Government Regulation; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Legislation, Medical; Pregnancy; Prenatal Diagnosis; Professional Autonomy
PubMed: 30912502
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2019.7 -
Medical History. Supplement 2008
Review
Topics: Archaeology; History, Medieval; Humans; Molecular Epidemiology; Pandemics; Plague; Yersinia pestis
PubMed: 18575084
DOI: No ID Found -
Medical History Oct 1997
Topics: Academies and Institutes; Exercise Therapy; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Libraries, Medical; London
PubMed: 9536620
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300063067 -
Medical History Jul 1988
Topics: Art; Dwarfism; Egypt, Ancient; Greece, Ancient; History, Ancient; Humans; Medicine in the Arts; Rome; Sculpture
PubMed: 3063904
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300048237 -
Medical History Jul 2011
Topics: Animals; History, 20th Century; Humanism; Memory; Models, Animal; Neurosciences; Octopodiformes
PubMed: 21792263
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300005421 -
Medical History Jul 1973
Topics: Education, Medical; England; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, Medieval; Schools, Medical
PubMed: 4595541
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300018706