{"title":"Patient Mobilisation in the Epidemiological Transition: How Tuberculosis Patients made the 'Heart Sick'.","authors":"Ylva Söderfeldt, Jonatan Samuelsson","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first decades of the 20th century, patients at lung sanatoria all over Sweden formed clubs that organised mutual support and arranged social events. By the late 1930s, they banded together in a national organisation, which quickly became a respected and influential actor in the health and social policy landscape. However, the decline of tuberculosis became a major threat to the continued relevance of this otherwise flourishing organisation. In this paper, we show how tuberculosis became a basis for political mobilisation, and how the organisation managed to survive through a targeted effort to assemble people with cardiovascular disease as a new group to organise. This sheds light on the transformation of disease concepts in the epidemiological transition, and demonstrates how patient mobilisation played a key role in reshaping them.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 3","pages":"591-616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991538","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":"Making Hepatitis C History? Médecins sans Frontières, Hepatitis C and Humanitarian Medicine in Cambodia 2016-2021.","authors":"Bertrand Taithe, Mickaël le Paih","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkaf040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates how a medical non-governmental organisation Médecins sans frontières (MSF) developed and promoted the treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV) in Cambodia. This article is based on an operational archive collected in real time within the MSF mission which was completed with repeated oral history interviews over a period of 5 years across the history of the humanitarian 'mission' between 2016 and 2021. This archive and a historical account produced synchronously revealed the evolution of the role of humanitarian organisations in setting the medical agenda regarding the development of a nation's health priorities. The article argues that such a campaign represents a new development for the history of humanitarian medicine. As an experimental historical project, we aimed to capture how a humanitarian organisation defined its intervention as a 'proof of concept' and developed a public health campaign from a vertical approach reliant on new and very effective treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"159-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145827979","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":"Imperial Careering: India and the Women's Medical Movement, 1896-1920.","authors":"David Arnold","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>India figured prominently in the women's medical movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was both a cause-bringing medical aid to Indian women-and a career-offering employment opportunities to qualified British women doctors. Where most studies have focussed on the early years of the movement in India and the creation of the Dufferin Fund in 1885, this article explores the careers, attitudes and experiences of a second generation of white women doctors, from the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1896 to the end of the First World War. As an exercise in imperial careering, it charts the parallels and connections between women doctors in India and Britain but also assesses the obstacles to the pursuit of medical careers in India and the factors, personal, political and professional, that by 1920 were driving women's medicine in metropole and empire further apart.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 4","pages":"830-851"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12818005/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146019723","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":"Supplying Relief: Civil Medical Assistance during the Korean War, 1950-3.","authors":"Dongkue Lee, Mark Harrison","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf028","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkaf028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the United Nation (UN)'s efforts to provide emergency relief for civilians during the Korean War, one of the deadliest and most devastating conflicts for civilians since World War II. The UN coordinated civilian relief during and after the war, developing a logistical system, legal framework and payment mechanism through UK banks in pounds sterling, and a distribution strategy based on European experience. United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) managed financial and legal issues, determined packing and shipping methods, resolved storage problems and distributed medical supplies in the field, either through United Nations Civil Assistance Corps Korea or UNKRA. The UN's efforts to provide civilian medical assistance to Korea set an exemplary model for later relief efforts and this study shows how this holistic system was created on the basis of experience gained during World War II and the creation of entirely new mechanisms for purchasing and delivering medical aid.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":"117-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13034124/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147594361","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 White Death Among the Ranks. Tuberculosis in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1882-1914.","authors":"Jan Błachnio","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkae095","DOIUrl":"10.1093/shm/hkae095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is devoted to the incidence of tuberculosis in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial-Royal Army between the years 1882 and 1914, with a special focus on the region of Cisleithania. The first part of the article discusses the organisation of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces, drawing attention to those features of the organisation that may prove informative when researching the health status of the wider population as a whole. The question of the extent of the threat of tuberculosis in Austria-Hungary is then addressed, which shall allow us to move on to the incidence of the disease in the Imperial Royal Army. Drawing on archivally collated statistics, I consider the morbidity-mortality curves and the susceptibility to the disease of the soldiers of each army type. The next part of the paper considers a possible crossover between the incidence of tuberculosis in civilian society and in the army, using the example of selected regiments billeted in Cisleithania. The last part of the article shall discuss the preventive measures taken by military authorities, such as dismissing those struck down with the disease from active service and the implementation of a more rigid hygienic regime.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":"48-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13034125/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147594247","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":"'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and <i>experimenta</i> in Medieval Medical Manuscripts.","authors":"Heather A Taylor","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkae053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in nature, also contain non-medical charms and <i>experimenta</i>. It considers how these manuscripts might provide evidence for a particular type of medical practice, one which was founded in text-based learning, but which also sought to address the non-medical concerns and anxieties of medieval patients through the application of charms and <i>experimenta</i> not exclusively related to healing. This enables a more detailed picture to be drawn of medical practice in the Middle Ages but, more specifically, of medical practice within a particular stratum of society, whereby patients or clients may have looked to engage the services of a practitioner whose literacy and text-based knowledge afforded him status, but who also addressed issues that were perhaps more commonly treated by humbler diviners and healers.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 4","pages":"748-770"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12818004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146019784","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":"Preventing Plague in the Italian Renaissance: Milanese Health Policies and Surveillance in the Sforza Registers of the Dead.","authors":"Ester Luconi, Cristiana Panella, Patrizia Boracchi, Massimo Galli, Elia Biganzoli","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkaf013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the fifteenth century, measures to prevent the plague were implemented almost everywhere in Italy. One essential tool for controlling urban epidemics situation was the use of Registers of the Dead. Francesco Sforza made Milan a pioneer city, establishing one of Europe's first daily recording systems. These Registers (1450-1801) not only tracked deaths but also provided socio-demographic and clinical information on the population. Through a groundbreaking network circulation of information, the Registers played a crucial role not only in monitoring the plague but also in the overall health situation during non-epidemic periods. This study focuses on the evolution of preventive health policies, highlighting the Registers as the culmination of them. The study also analyses the number of deaths in Milan in 1480, investigating the town's health landscape during a year without plague, wars, or other epidemics.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"371-393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148761693","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":"From the Deathbed to the Register: Administering the Dead in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.","authors":"Cihangir Gündoğdu, Gülhan Balsoy","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkae059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Ottoman Empire instituted state-sponsored inspection and registration of the dead in the early nineteenth century. For the first time, medical professionals known as <i>tabib</i> were hired to investigate the causes of deaths within Istanbul's perimeters. This initial surveillance effort in 1838-39 created the city's first two death registers, comprising 9,500 individual cases in total. In the light of these records, the current study investigates the surveillance of death and disease in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire by situating it within the global context of registering the dead, examining the first Ottoman regulations to detail the procedures concerning the registration process and identifying the professionals engaged therein. Since the primary concern of the present study is an investigation of the administration of the dead and medical surveillance, we emphasise the discrepancies observed in the registration process and scrutinise both the medical categories used and the registering physicians' professional backgrounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 4","pages":"771-786"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12817988/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146019721","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":"Hakims on Health and Hygiene: Advising Women and Optimising Reproductive Capacity in Urdu Instructional Literature, c.1880s-1940s.","authors":"Mobeen Hussain","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkae055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reads Urdu domestic health manuals as texts that targeted women to convey instructions on hygiene, exercise, and reproductive health. By predominantly focussing on <i>Tabib al-Nisa</i> (1934) and <i>Sinf-i-Nazuk</i> (1938), authored by hakims (local medical practitioners), this article argues that Urdu manuals, in comparison to other female-targeted manuals, have received little attention in historical scholarship. This research offers a starting point from which to remedy this by arguing that Urdu manuals, drawing from and inspired by Unani Tibb (Greco-Arabic-derived medicine), were important texts that contributed to how medical knowledge was understood and applied to women. It does this by examining how this manual genre mediated ideas about race, gender, class, and conflicting modernities to mould idealised notions of well-being. Colonially sanctioned health advice coalesced with local forms of medicine to address primarily North Indian <i>ashraf</i> women as responsible caregivers within broader debates about public health, eugenics, and socio-religious instruction.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"39 2","pages":"276-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13474425/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148766139","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 Doctor Made Clear His Utter Contempt of Me, and I Can Remember It Still': Unmarried Women's Experiences of Accessing the Pill in Scotland <i>c.</i> 1968-1980.","authors":"Kristin Hay","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkae060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1968, the barrier of marital status was removed from oral contraception. This meant that for the first time, unmarried women could legally access contraception for both social and medical reasons. As a biomedical drug, the pill required women to engage more frequently with the medical profession, purportedly redefining the patient-practitioner dynamic. However, despite the removal of legislative barriers to family planning services, societal attitudes towards the use of the pill by unmarried women continued to regulate individual behaviours and restrict their contraceptive choices. This was heightened in Scotland, which lagged behind the rest of mainland Britain in implementing family planning services. Using oral testimony, coupled with archival evidence, this article traces the implementation of family planning services by the Scottish state. It then examines unmarried women's early experiences of accessing the pill, and the impact of societal attitudes, gender inequalities and medical hostilities on their reproductive autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 3","pages":"647-669"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12511523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145281164","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}