{"title":"‘Drowned in a Sea of Inhumanity’: Natural Childbirth, Postnatal Depression and the National Childbirth Trust, 1956–80s","authors":"Hilary Marland","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad083","url":null,"abstract":"Summary During the 1970s, the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) began to provide information and support to women experiencing postnatal mental illness, building on its promotion of natural childbirth and emphasis on the emotional wellbeing of women around birth, which had occupied the organisation since its establishment in 1956. This article argues that, alongside emotional, social and medical factors, the NCT attributed postnatal depression to the shift to hospital deliveries, involving high levels of intervention and frustrating women’s choice and agency. While sharing ambitions to improve care in childbirth and giving women a voice in describing their experiences, it is suggested that the NCT’s relationship with the feminist health movement remained ambiguous. The article also explores the NCT’s collaboration with a variety of experts and advisors, some of whom emphasised the risk of postnatal depression to the bonding process and infant’s development, potentially exacerbating the mental distress of new mothers.","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135975678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900","authors":"James Kennaway","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad082","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900 Get access Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $55. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0-2268-2328-7. James Kennaway James Kennaway Department of History, University of Groningen, the Netherlands jgkennaway@yahoo.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad082, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad082 Published: 16 October 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136079730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain","authors":"Ivana Bičak","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad072","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The article examines the contemporary satiric treatment of a new transatlantic drug, guaiac, in a sixteenth-century poem by the Castilian writer Cristóbal de Castillejo, entitled En alabança del palo de las Indias, estando en la cura dél (In Praise of the Wood of the Indies, being under its treatment). The article contributes to the body of scholarship on the history of medicine in general and the history of herbal medicine in particular. The investigation of the poem embraces historical contextualisation, early modern rhetoric and classical reception. The article demonstrates the two-way relationship between early modern satire and medicine, arguing that the special significance of satiric productions that engage with medical themes lies in the inventive combination of the literary reality and empirical reality.","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134944389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon Peng-Keller, Fabian Winiger, Raphael Rauch, <i>The Spirit of Global Health: The World Health Organization and the Spiritual Dimension of Health, 1946-2021</i>","authors":"Simplice Ayangma Bonoho","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad081","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Simon Peng-Keller, Fabian Winiger, Raphael Rauch, The Spirit of Global Health: The World Health Organization and the Spiritual Dimension of Health, 1946-2021 Get access Simon Peng-Keller, Fabian Winiger and Raphael Rauch, The Spirit of Global Health: The World Health Organization and the Spiritual Dimension of Health, 1946-2021. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi+248. £75. Hdbk 978-0-1928-6550-2 Simplice Ayangma Bonoho Simplice Ayangma Bonoho Université de Yaoundé I - History, P.O. Box: 17622, Yaoundé-Cameroon simploofr@yahoo.fr https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-047X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad081, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad081 Published: 06 October 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135345716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Material History, Historied Materials and the Question of Epistemic Freedom in Ghana’s Medical Schools","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projit Mukharji, Brown Skin, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66","authors":"Ishita Pande","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad078","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Projit Mukharji, Brown Skin, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 Get access Projit Mukharji, Brown Skin, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. $35. Pbk ISBN 978-0-2268-2301. Ishita Pande Ishita Pande Department of History, Queen’s University, Canada pande@queensu.ca Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad078, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad078 Published: 27 September 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sugar-Sick Yet Healthy: Changing Concepts of Disease in the Dutch Diabetics Association (1945–1970)","authors":"Floor Haalboom","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkac073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkac073","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Using the journal of the Dutch Diabetics Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van Suikerzieken), the article provides insight into the role of an early patient organisation in conceptualising the chronic disease diabetes and its management in the Netherlands between 1945 and 1970. The dual aims of discipline (steered by health professionals) and independence (steered by diabetics) were reconciled through the concept of balance during the 1940s and 1950s. Organised diabetics played a particularly large role, and independence got particular emphasis as a consequence. This made it possible for organised patients to reconfigure their disease and identity in terms of social health in relation to labour, family and society in the post-war reconstruction period. In the late 1960s, this social concept transformed into a personal concept of health in which the concept of balance lost its prominence, despite a short intermezzo of medicalisation in the early 1960s.","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135966054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alessandra Celati, The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice","authors":"Rosa Salzberg","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad079","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Alessandra Celati, The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice Get access Alessandra Celati, The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice, London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. x + 244. £120. Hdbk. ISBN 978-1-0321-1204-6. Rosa Salzberg Rosa Salzberg University of Trento, Italy rosa.salzberg@unitn.it Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad079, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad079 Published: 21 September 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rose Marie San Juan, Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image","authors":"R Allen Shotwell","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad076","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Rose Marie San Juan, Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image Get access Rose Marie San Juan, Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 206. $119.95. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0-2710-9335-2. R Allen Shotwell R Allen Shotwell Ivy Tech Community College rshotwel@ivytech.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad076, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad076 Published: 21 September 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carlo Bonomi, <i>A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma</i>","authors":"Ping Lin, Keren Zhang","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad073","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Carlo Bonomi, A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma Get access Carlo Bonomi, A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma, London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 266. $51.94. ISBN 9781032404332. Ping Lin, Ping Lin Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Keren Zhang Keren Zhang Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China corryz@163.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-4060 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad073, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad073 Published: 12 September 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135825628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}