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"Frank Antagonism to Patterned Organization": Medical Technology, Professional Power, and the Development of US Medical Device Regulation, 1950-1976. “对模式化组织的坦率对抗”：医疗技术、专业力量和美国医疗器械法规的发展，1950-1976。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jraf001

Brice Bowrey

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"Dark Corners": Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia. “黑暗角落”：社会主义捷克斯洛伐克的儿童性谋杀、法医鉴定和保护性治疗。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jraf011

Andrea Bělehradová, Marie Láníková, Kateřina Lišková

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Treating Opium Addiction in China: Medical Missionaries, Chinese Medicine, and the State, 1830-1910. 在中国治疗鸦片成瘾：医学传教士、中医和国家，1830-1910。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae049

Shihan Zheng

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Famished for Freedom: Pellagra and Medical Clemency at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. 渴求自由：密西西比州立监狱的糙皮病和医疗赦免。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae048

Dana Landress

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Musk and Ambergris Aphrodisiacs in the Premodern Intercultural Origins of Endocrine Pharmacy. 麝香和龙涎香的催情剂在内分泌药学的前现代跨文化起源。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae036

Alison M Downham Moore

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The Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. 1812年伊斯坦布尔最后的大瘟疫：奥斯曼帝国生命政治的序曲。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag031

Einar Wigen, Alp Eren Topal, Carlo Trombino

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"We have been the real experts since foster care was first created" - The (Mis)uses of Foster Youth Voices in 1990s Child Welfare Policymaking and Legislation. “自寄养诞生以来，我们就是真正的专家”——《寄养青年之声在90年代儿童福利政策与立法中的（错误）运用》

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag036

Mical Raz

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Diagnosing deviance: psychopathy and the rise of child psychiatry in denmark. 诊断越轨：精神病和丹麦儿童精神病学的兴起。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag033

Jesper Vaczy Kragh

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From autonomy to adaptation: the liberal body in Walter B. Cannon's physiology. 从自主到适应：坎农生理学中的自由身体。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag032

Ilnyun Kim

{"title":"From autonomy to adaptation: the liberal body in Walter B. Cannon's physiology.","authors":"Ilnyun Kim","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrag032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrag032","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that Walter B. Cannon's changing model of the body tracked the transformation of twentieth-century American liberalism from laissez-faire autonomy to managed adaptation. At stake throughout was the problem of reconciling the autonomy of parts with the integrity of the whole. His early studies of digestion-an invisible hand within-aligned with faith in spontaneous self-regulation. Progressive-era work on fear and rage reframed disruption as purposeful mobilization, while World War I exposed its limits in shock and collapse. In response, Cannon articulated homeostasis as a grammar of resilience-feedback, buffers, and margins of safety-that recast purpose as regulation rather than destiny. Read together, these shifts show science and politics moving in tandem: autonomy preserved through rule-bound coordination in complex systems. This article thus revises the two-track portrait of Cannon (scientist here, citizen there) and situates his \"social homeostasis\" within interwar democratic reform and New Deal liberalism, where institutional redundancy and welfare safeguards stabilized freedom under strain. Recovering this liberal physiology clarifies how Cannon offered a democratic counterpoint to authoritarian decisionism and neoliberal discipline, and why his idiom of care, redundancy, and repair remains salient for crises of the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148708419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lighting, Cooking, Heating, and Asphyxiation! The Changing Uses and Risks of Manufactured Gas in American Homes, 1870-1940. 照明，烹饪，加热和窒息！1870-1940年，美国家庭中人造气体使用的变化和风险。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2026-07-16 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag027

Mark Aldrich

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