{"title":"Erratum: Publisher's Note.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkag044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkag044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkad091.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkae033.].</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148764988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism.","authors":"Sam Goodman, Sarah Arens","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkag043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkag043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of 'ailing empires' in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational networks, shaping governance, social relations, and epistemic hierarchies. The issue highlights medicine as a technology of control and a site of contestation, attentive to questions of race, gender, and class, as well as to the uneven production and validation of scientific authority. Meanwhile, it emphasises the fragility of imperialism, revealing how disease, crisis, and competition exposed the limits of power. The issue underscores the enduring legacies of imperial medicine in shaping modern inequalities and debates over public health and legitimacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"263-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474421/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148761401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jan of Jenštejn's <i>De bono mortis</i>: Reconstructing a Sceptical Patient's Travel Narrative.","authors":"Patrick Outhwaite","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While travelling across Europe, Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop of Prague (1379-96; d. 1400) suffered many illnesses. As recorded in his personal correspondence and the last work in his oeuvre, <i>De bono mortis</i>, Jenštejn frequently fell ill and encountered what he deemed to be incompetent physicians who were ignorant of how to treat his complexion. Coloured by these experiences, Jenštejn devoted a significant portion of his <i>De bono mortis</i> to criticising medicine and voicing his scepticism. He claimed to reject all forms of earthly medicine and placed his trust solely in frequent reception of the Eucharist as a sovereign treatment for spiritual and bodily health. As this article demonstrates, Jenštejn's narratives of illness not only reveal the rhetoric surrounding his medicalised sacramental theology, but also offer a means of conceptualising the ways in which travel complicated experiences of illness and treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"394-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474428/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148763150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Baby Named Louise: Medical Ethics, Informed Consent and the Value of Disabled Infant Lives in the Summer of 1978.","authors":"Vicky Long","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"418-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474429/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148764771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Hannaliis Jaadla, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson, Richard Tobin
{"title":"From Deathbed to Database Using ICD10h: A Framework for Coding and Classifying Individual English Language Cause of Death Data Consistently Over Time, as Applied to Scotland 1855-1973.","authors":"Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Hannaliis Jaadla, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson, Richard Tobin","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf077","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkaf077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes the development of, and principles behind, ICD10h, a system for the coding and categorisation of individual-level causes of death from 1855 to the present day. ICD10h provides an adaptation of the WHO's ICD10 (2016 version) which, by supplying additional codes for archaic terms together with a suggested categorisation, allows broad disease groups to be followed over time. It is a flexible system, which allows researchers to code, classify and study historic (h), individual level, and cause of death (COD) information in the English language, both in fine detail and at more aggregated levels. Our paper outlines the background and development of the system, before describing its principles and key characteristics. It demonstrates the system in action using individual level COD data for Scotland 1855-1973, as well as several smaller datasets and the published returns from the Registrar-General of Scotland.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"702-727"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583621/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shrinking Back from Shrinks: Suicidal Youth Avoiding Professional Help in Shame and Fear, Finland 1960-1980s.","authors":"Aino Saaristo","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A persisting problem in suicide prevention is that suicidal people do not reach out for help. This article examines the socio-cultural reasons young people had for concealing their suicidality instead of seeking help in Finland in the 1960s-1980s, a period which saw a staggering rise in youth suicides. Young people's writings about suicide or suicidality, published in newspaper youth columns, revealed several overlapping themes: shame and stigma, expectations to cope alone, and distrust towards mental health professionals. This article argues that young people did not seek professional help because they perceived it to be futile or harmful. Discussions among peers in the media did not encourage seeking professional help. Instead, young people found help from their peers. This article demonstrates how reluctance to seek help is socially and culturally produced. It contributes to the little-researched history of suicidal ideation and offers another viewpoint on the history of suicide prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"570-590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Christ, the Great Physician\": Chaplains in 19th-Century British Asylums.","authors":"Ute Oswald","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf070","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkaf070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the role of chaplains in 19th-century British asylums, focusing on the duties expected of them and the challenges they faced. These pivotal figures have so far remained largely under historians' radar, which belies their importance in these institutions. It is argued here that they provided not only pastoral and spiritual care but that they also took an active interest in the education and entertainment of their flock. Examples are taken from a variety of asylums, including Hanwell, Colney Hatch, Littlemore, and Rainhill, where chaplains were particularly active and where reports and journals offer a rich source of as yet untapped information. This article will highlight the therapeutic potential assigned to their ministry and aims to raise the profile of these 19th century clergymen who worked in close collaboration with superintendents under often demanding conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"523-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583618/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polish Refugees in British Lunatic Asylums, 1836-1879: Authority Figures and Social Control Mechanisms.","authors":"Emma Harris","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on public and organisational records, private correspondence, memoirs, and asylum documentation, this study seeks to explore responses in Britain to mental health problems among Polish refugees from the 1830 November Uprising, and their pathways into British lunatic asylums. After considering their military and refugee experience as a context for mental distress, the article examines ways in which family, community, and above all British and Polish officialdom reacted to mental illness. It suggests that attitudes of middle-class authority figures, initially interacting with mechanisms of the new Poor Law, played a pivotal role in patterns of institutionalisation. These attitudes were based on disdain for the socially and economically disadvantaged, rather than specific ethnic prejudice, while a part was also played by political discrimination, the desire to preserve a favourable public image of the exiles, or linguistic and cultural barriers to communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"546-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583617/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Medical Examination of Enslaved Persons Through the East and West Mediterranean Between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.","authors":"Benedetta Chizzolini, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The medical examination of slaves by early modern physicians and surgeons is a complex and, to date, under-researched area. Even though evidence of slave examination practices has been attested to ever since antiquity, specific criteria for physically examining slaves can first be found in mediaeval sources from regions in which the Arab cultural prevailed. Consequently, it has been falsely assumed that such practices were the exclusive domain of Arab medical practitioners. From the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries onwards, specific passages can be traced in medical texts from the Western cultural area in which the examination of slaves is described and criteria are mentioned. This article aims to provide an overview of those treatises focused on the act of buying and selling slaves in the Early Modern Period, concentrating primarily on treatises written by European authors. It equally sets out to reflect on how did those authors identified combine their own experience with the knowledge available to them about the examination of slaves.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"665-682"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583619/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical Spaces in the Asylum in Watt Street, Newcastle, New South Wales.","authors":"Helen J English","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf038","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkaf038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Asylum in Watt Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, was opened in 1871 for the care of 'idiots and imbeciles', and from 1872 was considered a model of moral therapy. Music was a key aspect of the therapy approach, which took place both inside and outside the asylum buildings. Music has a long history of being used to calm the mind, change mood and even cure ailments, as well as to arouse and engage. In the twenty-first century, there has been an important shift to understanding music as a resource for navigating everyday life, extended by Tia DeNora to a perception of music as asylum through its encompassing and eudaemonic effects. This article examines music-making in the Newcastle asylum, drawing on nineteenth-century texts on asylums, newspaper reporting and inspection reports. It argues that music created inclusive social spaces and shows the opportunities it afforded for positive self-care musical experiences shared by visitors and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":"138-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13034120/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147594274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}