{"title":"The Scottish Women's Health Fair, 1983: A Showcase of the Scottish Women's Health Movement<sup>1</sup>.","authors":"Karissa Robyn Patton","doi":"10.1353/hah.2024.a952498","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hah.2024.a952498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In May 1983 women from across Scotland came together in Edinburgh for the Scottish Women's Health Fair (SWHF). Organised by and for 'ordinary' women, the SWHF offered a substantive two-and-half day programme-including information sessions, film screenings, workshops, and information stall-that attracted over two thousand attendees. A diverse group of organisers, presenters, and attendees at the SWHF applied concepts of holistic and social health as they discussed a wide range of topics, from women suffering from depression to damp housing and cervical smears. The women who organised the SWHF reflected on this event as a pivotal moment for them personally, and for the women's health movement in Scotland more broadly. The success of the SWHF was achieved in the face of political and professional controversies that placed Scottish women's health activists in opposition with the Scottish Home and Health Department and the World Health Organisation European Region. Within the context of these controversies, this article situates the SWHF as a strategic showcase of the strength of the women's health movement in Scotland and the wider public support of women's health praxis and ideas.</p>","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"26 2","pages":"73-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7617513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Do Not Become Pregnant': Negotiating HIV-Affected Pregnancy and Abortion in Late-Twentieth-Century Scotland.","authors":"Hannah J Elizabeth","doi":"10.1353/hah.2024.a952499","DOIUrl":"10.1353/hah.2024.a952499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article tracks how the advice to terminate pregnancies became integral to the medical and social management of HIV among women in the UK, and considers how this shaped women's experiences of HIV-affected pregnancy. Specifically, it traces how the advice that 'at risk' and HIV positive women should avoid pregnancy, and should terminate pregnancies, evolved in the last decades of the twentieth century. It asks how this advice shaped the experiences of pregnant people affected by HIV, and then finally traces how the advice to terminate pregnancies ebbed away. In doing so, the article explores how healthcare practitioners and the women under their care viewed HIV-affected pregnancy, and the possibilities of HIV-affected motherhood and natal families it conjured, excavating the myriad tensions which shaped the decision to terminate or continue a pregnancy affected by HIV.</p>","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"26 2","pages":"95-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7617563/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19: What Needs to be Documented? Insights from the Pneumonic Influenza of 1918–1919","authors":"A. Hyslop","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904711","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 and the recent COVID-19 pandemic in their Australian manifestations, with particular reference to their advent and impact, the response of medical science to each, and their management by federal and state authorities. It also comments on the availability of primary sources, both oral and written, for the study of each pandemic ordeal.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"72 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43426148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Not Having Been in this Movie Before: The Uses of History in a Pandemic","authors":"Warwick Anderson","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"66 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43167633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Zealand Nurses: Caring For Our People 1880–1950 by Pamela Wood (review)","authors":"J. Godden","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"124 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44519824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disease in History: Commentaries in Medical History by Bruce Short (review)","authors":"J. Pearn","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"131 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44334920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy by James E. Moran (review)","authors":"A. Westmore","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"133 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44840260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protection at a Price: Protection of the Aborigines in the Commonwealth's Northern Territory, 1911–1978 by Brian Reid (review)","authors":"P. Martyr","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"129 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48684130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Unrecognised Sydney Contribution to Unravelling the Perplexity of Nerve Impulses","authors":"J. Carmody","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"25 1","pages":"113 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43253600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}