{"title":"Editorial: Ten Years of \"Health & History\"","authors":"J. McCalman","doi":"10.1353/hah.2008.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2008.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44753609","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.23.1.0038
B. Draper
{"title":"Dementia in Nineteenth-Century Australia","authors":"B. Draper","doi":"10.5401/healthhist.23.1.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.23.1.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ageing of nineteenth-century Australia resulted in increasing asylum admissions of older people with dementia. Dementia prevalence in the colonial population is estimated to have increased from eight hundred in 1861 to nine thousand in 1901. Dementia diagnosis had broader usage in the lunatic asylums than in current practice. Examination of medical casebooks from three asylums found 50–60% concordance with current dementia diagnoses. Lunatic asylums were reluctant to admit people with dementia but lack of alternatives for those with challenging behaviour, inability to self-care, and with limited or no family support meant admissions increased. Dementia care in benevolent asylums focused on those who were cooperative. Quality of dementia care was poor with badly designed built environments, few trained staff, and high use of restraints.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46743145","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0001
Tiffany Jenks, Angela Wanhalla
{"title":"Psychological Casualties: War Neurosis, Rehabilitation, and the Family in Post–World War II New Zealand","authors":"Tiffany Jenks, Angela Wanhalla","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There are few extant studies in New Zealand that have investigated the lives of Second World War veterans who lived with war neurosis, and even less attention has been paid to how their families shared in this experience. Using the welfare claims files of the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Returned Services' Association (NZRSA) this article demonstrates the physical strain caused by care work, but also the emotional toll placed upon families due to financial hardship because of veteran unemployment, or from placement into treatment. Reflecting the fact that psychological illnesses are lifelong, the welfare claim files bring to light the lengthy and continuing support the NZRSA provided servicemen, and the essential role the association played in assisting these men and their families to navigate the government rehabilitation system.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46749742","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":"Death, Modernity, and the Body in Sweden 1870—1940, Rochester Studies in Medical History Series, translated by Daniel W. Olsen (New York: The University of Rochester Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-58046-312-6 (HC). 50 B&W illustrations, 246 pp. (review)","authors":"Helen Macdonald","doi":"10.1353/hah.2011.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2011.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45883320","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":"Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (review)","authors":"James Beattie","doi":"10.1353/hah.2014.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2014.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47493104","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047
H. Graham
{"title":"‘Made Ill by Bad Management’: The Health and Welfare of Prisoners in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales","authors":"H. Graham","doi":"10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article draws evidence from a remarkably detailed report into prison conditions in Sydney that was produced in May 1861 by a parliamentary committee chaired by Henry Parkes. Although comprehensive in intent, the inquiry into this crucial aspect of the administration of criminal justice had little impact. Besides pointing out some of the distinctive features of the committee and its report, which help to explain why this historical source has not attracted much scholarly attention, the article aims to contextualise the surrounding issues. In particular, the report's limited efforts to record and ameliorate the health and welfare of prisoners encapsulated some long-standing deficiencies in government policies toward caring for the incarcerated.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70662597","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026
J. Bradley
{"title":"A Tale of Two Objects: Electro-Convulsive Therapy, History, and the Politics of Museum Display","authors":"J. Bradley","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first shock treatments and now housed in the History of Medicine Museum, Rome; and a machine from Adelaide based upon H.M. Birch's original design and used to give the first shock treatments in Australia. In discussing these objects, I take a number of steps. Firstly, a short history of ECT introduces the major debates around the therapy and its history. Secondly, the machines are positioned within this history. Thirdly, the machines 'function within the galleries is discussed. Finally, I ask how these objects might be presented in a way that better reflects their history and the history of psychiatry more generally.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70663473","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0001
L. McCarthy, K. Weston, Stephen Hampton, T. Mackinnon
{"title":"Special Issue: History, Medicine, and Incarceration","authors":"L. McCarthy, K. Weston, Stephen Hampton, T. Mackinnon","doi":"10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897578","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.20.2.0091
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
{"title":"‘In Otio cum Dignitate esse Possent’ [‘The Enjoyment of Worthiness in Leisure’]: Professor John Boulton on Health, History, and Intergenerational Trauma","authors":"Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.20.2.0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.20.2.0091","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Emeritus Professor John Boulton was the Foundation Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle's medical school and now has honorary academic affiliations in Medical Humanities with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney, and in Aboriginal Child Health at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth. In 2011 he was awarded the Howard Williams Medal for his career contribution to Paediatrics and Child Health by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. After his retirement from academic practice he worked for ten years as senior pediatrician to the Kimberley health region. In this interview with Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Professor Boulton speaks about his training, his work as an academic clinician, his interest in intergenerational trauma, and his continuing work with Aboriginal communities and practitioners. The interview is followed by Professor Boulton's paper on intergenerational trauma in Aboriginal communities, presented at the ‘Psychiatry, Trauma and History in a Global Age: The View from Australasia’ symposium, held at the University of Newcastle in May 2017.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48530961","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}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.16.2.0144
Megan Hicks
{"title":"The State of Health and Medicine Museums","authors":"Megan Hicks","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.16.2.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.16.2.0144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.16.2.0144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49426997","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}