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"A Vile Custom": The Strange Career of William Osler's "Professional Notes". “卑劣的习俗”:威廉·奥斯勒“专业笔记”的奇特生涯。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad072

Jenna Healey

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Operative Innovation and Surgical Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Ulcer Surgery. 二十世纪溃疡外科的手术创新与手术保守。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad065

Christopher Crenner

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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 : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jraf001

Brice Bowrey

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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 : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae036

Alison M Downham Moore

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The Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) Invasion: The Construction of an Invasive Animal Threatening a "Healthy" Great Lakes Ecosystem. 海七鳃鳗（Petromyzon marinus）入侵：一种威胁“健康”大湖生态系统的入侵动物。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae046

Vincent Bijman

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Collective Forgetting of American Vaginal Breech Delivery. 美国阴道臀位分娩的集体遗忘。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae034

Tzipy Lazar-Shoef, Noah Jonathan Efron, Nadav Davidovitch

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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 : 2025-01-13 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 : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae048

Dana Landress

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Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939. 沙鼠无国界：入侵、瘟疫和微观全球科学史，1932-1939》。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrae041

Jules Skotnes-Brown, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

{"title":"Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939.","authors":"Jules Skotnes-Brown, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva","doi":"10.1093/jhmas/jrae041","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jhmas/jrae041","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1930s, a series of bubonic plague outbreaks among humans cropped up in several villages at the border of Angola and Namibia. These outbreaks provoked deep concern, laying bare social and political tensions amongst neighboring imperial powers and Indigenous people within the region. Despite the appearance of this disease in what was then considered a recondite place, its spread sparked debate in transnational forums, such as the League of Nations and the Office International d'Hygiène Publique. Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing \"migrant\" South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease. It follows the transnational political and scientific dynamics created by the plague \"invasion\" and discusses how these, like the gerbils, crossed numerous borders and scales. Ultimately, this article shows how localized inter-species and inter-imperial encounters can provide empirical insights into the feasibilities of a micro-global history of science in which more-than-human actors take on an important role.","PeriodicalId":49998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7617814/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Ill-bred Culture of Experimentation: Malaria Therapy and Race in the United States Public Health Service Laboratory at the South Carolina State Hospital, 1932-1952. 缺乏教养的实验文化:1932-1952年南卡罗来纳州医院美国公共卫生服务实验室的疟疾治疗和种族。

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad063

Bradford Charles Pelletier

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