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{"title":"Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare by Klaus Hoeyer (review)","authors":"Kim Gallon","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a937511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a937511","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare</em> by Klaus Hoeyer <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Kim Gallon </li> </ul> Klaus Hoeyer. <em>Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare</em>. Infrastructures Series. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023. 314 pp Ill. $50.00 (978-0-262-54541-9). <p>It is virtually impossible to discuss health care in the twenty-first century without referencing data-driven decision-making. This is the basis for the major arguments of Klaus Hoeyer’s book, <em>Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare</em>. Hoeyer uses Denmark as a case study for exploring what he calls “intensified data sourcing,” the stated drive for more data in health care and the lack of consensus on how the data will be utilized. This is the central paradox <strong>[End Page 332]</strong> of data in Denmark’s health care system. Hoeyer makes the case for a hyperlocal analysis of Denmark, beyond the obvious explanation that he is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, because it has established a sophisticated digital health system that runs on an integrated data infrastructure. However, Hoeyer’s focus on Denmark precludes it from being solely a local study. Indeed, he argues that Denmark’s stated drive to be at the forefront of digital health care reflects the larger value other nations ascribe to data. In what he describes as an “ethno-graphic engagement” and anthropological discourse on data, Hoeyer explores the interconnections among policy, practice, and experience in Denmark’s health care system (p. 27).</p> <p>The book is organized thematically to introduce readers to a series of paradoxes about data that people produce through their belief that it promises new knowledge and the potential to do good. Drawing on interviews with researchers, reports, and strategy papers, Hoeyer argues that promises lie at the heart of the politics of data. These promises produce “data living,” a state of being where people’s well-being and health are inextricably linked to data that stands in as a representative of that person.</p> <p>Some of the most enlightening discussions in the book occur when Hoeyer explores “data work” and illuminates the multifaceted nature of data work in Denmark’s health system and the relatively large number of people who are involved in creating data infrastructure. The paradox in data, Hoeyer persuasively argues, is that data makes less work and more work at the same time.</p> <p>In a surprising but ultimately useful turn, Hoeyer uses an autoethnographic method to disclose his own data experiences, to disclose broader meaning about how people interact with data infrastructures in their everyday lives. However, these data infrastructures are often invisible to most people. In other words, they do not manifest themselves in people’s lives. Instead","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142259738","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":"The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests by Amy Hay (review)","authors":"Elena Conis","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a929789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a929789","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests</em> by Amy Hay <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Elena Conis </li> </ul> Amy Hay. <em>The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests</em>. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021. 328 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-0-8173-2108-6). <p>Amy Hay's <em>Defoliation of America</em> is an argument for greater attention to the history of anti-toxic protest in twentieth-century U.S. history. In nine novel chapters, Hay reveals what comes into view when the ways in which citizens and scientists protest against the (known and unknown) toxic hazards of synthetic chemicals are traced and contextualized over time. Hay's specific focus is the Agent Orange herbicides, which include the two compounds notoriously combined to make the potent Vietnam War–era weed killer Agent Orange, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, as well as the \"rainbow\" herbicides made with one or the other of these.</p> <p>The Agent Orange herbicides, also known as phenoxy herbicides, work, paradoxically, by accelerating plant growth—\"to the point of death\" (p. 16). When the chemicals were first developed, in the 1940s, they were quickly put to nonmilitary use: on agricultural fields, weed-choked urban lots, fire-prone forests, and prized suburban lawns. Protest of a sort immediately ensued; early scientific <strong>[End Page 167]</strong> writings readily sounded notes of caution. But it wasn't until the chemicals were deployed by the U.S. military in Vietnam to decimate enemy routes and destroy crops that their application became \"visible to the world\" (p. 220). And eventually, with countercultural and veteran opposition, their objectionable qualities, long known to few, became more widely visible too. Today, they're still best known for their use over vast swaths of the Vietnamese landscape and for claims of toxicity among war veterans and civilians.</p> <p>For Hay, this is just part of the Agent Orange herbicides' story. Her book is divided into three chronologically arranged parts, each of them featuring stories of opposition in dramatically different settings. In part I, the book moves swiftly from the herbicides' creation to the first protests launched by the Catholic left, other religious groups, college students, and pacifists. The book's second part offers three case studies of women in the western United States who fought the herbicides' use in their home communities or states. The final section follows the protests of countercultural activists, Vietnam veterans, and parents of children exposed in utero.</p> <p>What these stories demonstrate is the varied routes the rainbow herbicides followed from manufacturing plants, through landscapes, and into bodies. Hay swiftly moves through the familiar narrative of wartime defoliation so vast it affected \"more than half of South Vietnam's arable land\" (p. 35) to show what protests this use elicited ","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520460","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":"Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types by Allan V. Horwitz (review)","authors":"Sharrona Pearl","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a929788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a929788","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types</em> by Allan V. Horwitz <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sharrona Pearl </li> </ul> Allan V. Horwitz. <em>Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types</em>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. xii + 227 pp. $35.00 (978-1-4214-4610-3). <p>Here's a pro tip: if you want someone to review your book, be sure to include \"short\" in the title. Read a short history of a compelling topic in my field? Sign. Me. Up. I didn't, I admit, stop to reflect too closely on what \"short\" might mean in the context of <em>A Brief History of Personality Disorders</em>. It could mean the book is short, or the history is short, or (stretching a grammatical point) the history of personality disorders is itself, relative to history as a whole, short. Spoiler alert: it's not the first one. The book itself isn't, on the scale of academic-trade writing, particularly short, at 227 pages. What \"short\" means here is more like synthetic, or sweeping, or broad: this is an overview not just of personality disorders, but personality as a whole, and, indeed, disorders as a (culturally contingent) category. That's a lot to squeeze in; no wonder it isn't actually all that short, and to be honest, I'm glad it's not.</p> <p>The book is in fact a bit breathless: a race (or at least a jog) through a couple of hundred years of history (and a look back to antiquity, as one does) to discuss not just the history of personality disorders, but indeed the history of both personality and disorders. If that means that the actual disorders get … errr … short shrift, it's worth it: as Horwitz compellingly explains, personality disorders are a particularly complicated category both as an entity, and indeed as individual components. As is true for a lot of mental illness, disease models simply do not fit. It's more acute in this case: personality, Horwitz outlines, is deeply shaped by social, political, and historical conditions. That makes it fair game for a variety of disciplines to study and claim, and at the same time, hard to determine norms. It's also really hard to study in traditional tests: with, say, IQ tests, there is an internal motivation to get it right. That's not that different to personality tests, except that \"getting it right\" is itself contingent on what the test-taker believes to be the best outcome. It's a motivated approach based on circumstance: if you want a job (or to get out of a job) you'll frame your answers accordingly. And even in cases where the test is untethered to an outcome, the answers reflect what the test-taker believes to be true about themselves rather than what might actually be the case. Personality is hard to measure, and it's hard to determine where a personality stops and a disorder starts. Unlike the classic medical model, which understands","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520461","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":"Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating by Catherine L. Newell (review)","authors":"Jonathan D. Riddle","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a929790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a929790","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating</em> by Catherine L. Newell <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jonathan D. Riddle </li> </ul> Catherine L. Newell. <em>Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating</em>. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023. ix + 253 pp. ( 978-1-79362-006-4). <p>Critics of diet and exercise cultures often complain that people treat their health practices like religions. They intend this observation as a critique. Comparison to religion in this context implies that devotees demonstrate excessive zeal for their lifestyles, expect too much from mere regimen, and, especially, engage in unwelcome proselytization. In <em>Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating</em>, historian Catherine L. Newell rejects this dismissive attitude and takes the resemblance between diets and religion seriously, exploring where food-focused lifestyles fit into the history of religion in the United States and how they operate as spiritual practices today.</p> <p>Newell begins by situating the diets she denominates food faiths—veganism, Paleo, and various ancestral diets—within sociological conceptions of religious change in the last half century. According to the framework proposed by Robert Wuthnow and others, American believers moved from faiths focused on \"dwelling\" (p. 19) in traditions and institutions in the mid-twentieth century to \"seeking\" (p. 20) new forms of extra-institutional spirituality during the counter-culture years. Now, following the rise of the religiously unaffiliated, many believers simply focus on cultivating a \"spiritual practice\" (p. 22).<sup>1</sup> Food faiths fit into this final stage, Newell argues. Here she proposes a secularization narrative. For as much as we should understand dieting as \"a new form of spiritual practice\" (p. 24), this practice derives not from belief in deities or scriptures but from belief in science. Dieting is not so much <em>like</em> religion; it has <em>replaced</em> religion, becoming \"secular theology for the science-minded\" (p. 14).</p> <p>In the next two chapters—the longest of the book—Newell offers a detailed history of diet-based lifestyles from the health reform movement of Sylvester Graham in the early nineteenth century to the debates between Ancel Keys and John Yudkin over the lipid hypothesis in the late twentieth century. Secularization again provides the framework. While antebellum health reformers urged Americans to adopt abstemious diets as part of the divine plan for material and spiritual flourishing, late twentieth-century Atkins dieters followed the dictates of science in pursuit of bodily health and beauty. The turning point in this transition, Newell argues, came in the early twentieth century with John Harvey Kellogg. Kellogg began promoting healthy lifestyles at the Battle Creek Sanitarium as an extension of his Seventh-day Adventist faith, but, wh","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531437","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":"Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science ed. by Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen (review)","authors":"Jordan Katz","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a929791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a929791","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science</em> ed. by Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jordan Katz </li> </ul> Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen, eds. <em>Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science</em>. Jerusalem: Ludwig Mayer, 2021. 299 pp. Ill. $58.90 ( 978-965-92493-1-2). <p>Tuviya Cohen was arguably the most famous Jewish physician of the early modern period. Born in Metz, France, in 1652, Cohen was the son of Moses Cohen Narol, a Polish émigré who fled the 1648–49 Khmelnytsky massacres and served for a time as the chief rabbi of Metz. After spending his formative years in Poland, Tuviya studied in the university of Frankfurt an der Oder and later in Padua, where he eventually earned his medical degree alongside other Jewish students.</p> <p>Much of what we know of Tuviya's life is drawn from his magnum opus, <em>Ma'ase Tuviya</em> (Venice, 1708), a Hebrew encyclopedia of natural sciences, theology, pharmacology, and medicine. It is this work that constitutes the seed text for the articles collected in <em>Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice 1708): Tuviya on Medicine and Science</em>. Regrettably little information about Tuviya's life trajectory exists outside this text, aside from a few scant letters published by the late nineteenth-century scholar David Kaufmann. This makes the text of <em>Ma'ase Tuviya</em> all the more enticing as a primary source, as much for its insights about early modern Jewish engagement with science and medicine as for the biographical information about its author.</p> <p>Edited by Kenneth Collins, Samuel Kottek, and Helena Paavilainen, with a foreword by Fred Rosner, this volume consists of eight articles concerning different aspects of Tuviya Cohen's <em>Ma'ase Tuviya</em>, in addition to an appendix containing translated excerpts of Cohen's text. Some components of these pieces were previously published in a special issue of <em>Korot: The Israeli Journal of the History of Medicine and Science</em>, of which Kottek and Collins have both served as editors. On top of this, one article by Samuel Kottek centers on the German-Jewish physician Fritz Kahn. Kottek notes that the editors deemed it worthy of inclusion in the book \"in view of, and in comparison to, Tuviya's illustration of the human body delineated as a house,\" a curious claim given that it is difficult to discern a tangible connection between Kahn's illustrations and Tuviya's earlier work.</p> <p>The volume's first article, \"Tuviya Cohen and His Medical Studies,\" by Collins, presents an overview of Tuviya's medical education and his interaction with other Jewish students at the University of Padua. This essay is followed by a piece by Kottek, which attempts to place Tuviya Cohen's work in context primarily by identifying his work's citations. The article makes several observations about what the text","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531424","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":"Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism by Susan Grant (review)","authors":"Golfo Alexopoulos","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2024.a929792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a929792","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism</em> by Susan Grant <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Golfo Alexopoulos </li> </ul> Susan Grant. <em>Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism</em>. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-1-5017-6259-8). <p>In this brilliant, deeply researched, and beautifully written book, Susan Grant seeks to \"show that nurses were crucial symbols of the new Soviet state\" (p. 3). The author draws from a variety of sources: archives in Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, and Tambov) as well as Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She uses a range of Soviet periodicals and newspapers, films and photographs, and other material to produce a compelling and important work.</p> <p>What is really different about Soviet nurses? The Soviet state prioritized the ideological and political role of nurses alongside their role to care for and administer to the sick. Soviet \"health authorities worried about the social and class background\" of medical workers (p. 77) and stressed the importance of \"training ideologically reliable workers\" (p. 100). The problems in health care reflected the problems of Soviet society generally, such as economic realities of shortage and informality (bribes, tips, etc.).</p> <p>One of the great strengths of the book is that it provides a history of the Soviet Union through the lens of health care. In the years that coincided with Stalinist repression and hunt for enemies, medical workers like other ordinary citizens were denounced, investigated, arrested, and even executed. During the war, medical workers faced deteriorating conditions. \"By late 1941 and 1942, measles, typhus, and other diseases spread eastward along evacuation routes. … By 1943 and 1944, medical workers had to cope with vast numbers suffering from starvation and tuberculosis\" (p. 145). Soviet authorities focused nurse training on the country's unique health care problems, such as high levels of infant mortality and tuberculosis. In the Soviet Union because there was a spectrum of middle- and junior-level medical workers that were typically lumped together, \"nurses, feldshers, and doctors worked together, and their roles often overlapped\" (p. 74).</p> <p>Although the Soviet context was unique in many ways, in other ways it was not. One common feature of Soviet nursing was that women dominated the nursing profession. The state's gendered discourse stressed the need for \"care\" and \"compassion\" and for medical workers to have \"maternal\" sensibilities, while male doctors often looked down upon nurses and diminished their value. The Soviet state paid them less too: \"Efforts to place women on a par with men did not always play out in practice. Conservatism was still entrenched at state and societal levels\" (p. 97).</p> <p>Moreover, in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere, rural areas were underserved because few medical ","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531425","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":"Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment by Christina Ramos (review)","authors":"Bianca Premo","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922715","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment</em> by Christina Ramos <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Bianca Premo </li> </ul> Christina Ramos. <em>Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment</em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xvi + 254 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-1-4696-6657-0). <p>This compelling book about a madhouse in colonial Mexico City is described by its author as a \"microhistory,\" but it has \"macro\" implications. Never overreaching her evidence, Christina Ramos traces in five chapters the colonial history of <strong>[End Page 646]</strong> the San Hipólito hospital, run by the male religious nursing order of the same name, over the arc of Spanish rule of mainland Latin America, from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth. With fascinating examples drawn from short medical case histories, longer Inquisition and secular criminal cases, and institutional records, the book shows how focusing on Mexico City's \"bedlam\"—the first such institution in the New World, established by a former conquistador in the 1560s—can change inherited narratives about the confinement of the insane, colonial medicine and science, and the Enlightenment.</p> <p>Historians of madness have long struggled to humanize those considered insane, and this book certainly approaches San Hipólito's patients with historical care. The book adds dimension not only to the \"mad\" but also to those who determined sanity, including Inquisitors, secular judges, and physicians. As Michel Foucault might have predicted, the late eighteenth century was a pivotal moment in the history of madness in Mexico. Nevertheless, Ramos repeatedly underscores that this was not because of some grand design to confine and secularize, as in narratives of the advent of modern psychiatry. Rather, Iberian notions of charity and care for souls motivated the founding of the hospital and, to some extent, reforms initiated during the so-called Bourbon era in the 1700s. It was under viceregal Enlightened policy that the hospital was revived, occupying a new building whose beautiful exterior concealed a fairly gnarly interior. Though the mission of the religious order was to tend to the \"poor demented,\" the book shines a light on dank physical conditions of the hospital and the troubled, if sometimes darkly humorous, inner lives of those confined within it. These were horrifying enough that at least one faker of madness seeking to avoid criminal punishment regretted his ruse. Thus, the book asks readers to hold two thoughts at once: colonial officials and priests could both care for the insane and neglect or fear them because of their disorderly behaviors.</p> <p>Physicians were not the major players of this history of insanity until they were increasingly—if still sporadically—brought into the process of determining which transgressors of social norms should be medically ","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"307 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199348","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":"American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922710","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> American Association for the History of Medicine:<span>Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p>The American Association for the History of Medicine held its ninety-sixth annual meeting, May 11–14, 2023. The following summary has been prepared by Jodi L. Koste and is intended for the information of the members of the association. The official minutes and reports are preserved in the Office of the Secretary. The final meeting program, featuring the titles of the papers and the names of all the presenters, may be found on the AAHM website at https://histmed.org/meetings.html.</p> <h2>Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Inc</h2> <p>May 11, 2023</p> <p>The regular meeting of the AAHM Council was held in conjunction with the ninety-sixth annual meeting and called to order by President Barron Lerner at 1:15 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Room of the Kensington Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. All officers were present and all members of council except Projit Mukharji attended. There was one correction to the published 2022 annual meeting of council as published in the <em>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</em>, vol. 95, no. 4 pp. 661–99. On page 664 the first line in the first paragraph should read: \"The HMF has six separate accounts. Their year-end balances for December 30, <strong>2021</strong>.\" Council then approved the amended minutes. Council reviewed, discussed, and accepted the <strong>[End Page 658]</strong> reports of the secretary, treasurer, and the association's standing committees. Council discussed and passed motions on the issues summarized on p. 662.</p> <h2>Report of the Secretary</h2> <p>AAHM Council continued the practice of regularly meeting by Zoom throughout the year. The council members met June 13, 2022; August 31, 2022; September 29, 2022; December 6, 2022; January 19, 2023; February 23, 2023; March 24, 2023; and April 26, 2023 to address issues related to the governance of the association and its programs. Major issues addressed throughout the year were the continuing Centennial Campaign, operationalizing the Anti-Racism Statement, considering a Land Acknowledgement statement, reviewing a proposal for a biography prize, seeking a new candidate for the office of secretary, and enhancing a proposal from the Ann Arbor Local Arrangements Committee for a virtual component for the 2023 annual meeting. Council formed a subcommittee led by Vice-President Mary Fissell to search for a new secretary and issued a call for nominations. The subcommittee received four applications, interviewed two candidates, and submitted one recommendation to council for approval. Council endorsed the recommendation, and sent the name of the candidate to the Nominating Committee.</p> <p>As in past years, the office of the secretary continued to provide support for all of the council's initiatives and accepted submissions for","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199430","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":"Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance by Michael Stolberg (review)","authors":"Erik Heinrichs","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922720","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance</em> by Michael Stolberg <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Erik Heinrichs </li> </ul> Michael Stolberg. <em>Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance</em>. Translated by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. xxvi + 616 pp. Ill. $118.99 (978-3-11-073835-3). <p>This important book stands out among early modern histories of medicine as a deep examination of medical practice and physicians' experiences in the sixteenth century. It is based on decades of scholarship into the immense personal writings of the Bohemian physician Georg Handsch (1529–78), who until recently has been a neglected figure of history. While Handsch's manuscript notes on his life and career are unique for their sheer volume (over four thousand pages), <strong>[End Page 644]</strong> Stolberg contextualizes this source with practice notes from other contemporary physicians. On the broader dimensions of a physician's career, the author turns to the biographies of many early modern physicians. Through these rich sources, Stolberg aims to establish what exactly a sixteenth-century physician did during his career as well as to correct myths that have dominated accounts of early modern physicians.</p> <p>Handsch's career is well suited to gain insight to medical practice in various social and cultural contexts. He grew up in Bohemia in a German-speaking family, studied at Padua and Ferrara, and practiced medicine in Prague and Innsbruck. As one of the court physicians to Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Handsch practiced alongside celebrated physicians, including Pietro Mattioli and Andrea Gallo. His notes from his student days also provide great insight to education at northern Italian universities, including on pivotal topics such as anatomy and botany. There Handsch studied or worked with many of the great medical men of the time, such as Giovanni Battista da Monte and Gabriele Falloppio.</p> <p>The heart of the book presents a broad examination of all aspects of sixteenth-century medical practice, from the nuts and bolts of a physician's career to methods of diagnosis and the vast array of treatments available. Stolberg joins recent historians to emphasize that physicians treated patients of all types—rich, poor, and middling, men, women, and children. They were sometimes difficult and non-compliant. Stolberg also adds to recent historians' views on how physicians sought to relate to their broad patient base within a shared medical culture. Namely, when explaining sickness physicians deemphasized humoral theory but used concepts of impurity and obstruction instead. Patients seem to have experienced their sick bodies most often in these terms—that corrupted matter somehow built up in the body, requiring treatments aimed at removing it. Stolberg presents many examples of such treatments and therapies in act","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199366","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":"Table of Contents: Volume 97","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922714","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Table of Contents<span>Volume 97</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>[End Page 697]</strong></p> <p><strong>[End Page 698]</strong></p> <table> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">F<small>orum</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Introduction: Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the <em>Dobbs</em> Decision / 1</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Kelly O'Donnell and Naomi Rogers</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">From <em>When Abortion Was a Crime</em> to Abortion <em>Is</em> a Crime / 11</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Leslie J. Reagan</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Writing the History of Legal Abortion / 22</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Johanna Schoen</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">A View from Northern Mexico: Abortions before <em>Roe v. Wade</em> / 30</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Lina-Maria Murillo</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\"><em>Dobbs</em> in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country / 39</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Brianna Theobald</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">\"It Gives the Mother the Best Chance for Her Life\": U.S. Catholic Health Care and the Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy / 48</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Jessica Martucci</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History / 57</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Kelly O'Donnell</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">A<small>rticles</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy and the Emergence of Ecological Malariology Within and Beyond Imperial Britain / 67</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Tom Quick</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">The Origins of Camphill and the Legacy of the Asylum in Disability History / 100</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Katherine Sorrels</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">\"Heroin Mothers,\" \"Methadone Babies,\" and the Medical Controversy over Methadone Maintenance in the Early 1970s / 127</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Ulrich Koch</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">I<small>n</small> C<small>onversation</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg / 181</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">A<small>rticles</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">The Many Colors of Excrement: Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm / 197</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Natalie Köhle</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">\"When I Think of It I Awfully Dread It\": Conceptualizing Childbirth Pain in Early America / 227</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Nora Doyle</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior / 255</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Seth Archer</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">Prenatal Care in the Rural United States, 1912–1929 / 294</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Nicole Holding</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\">The History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Finland: From National Needs to International Arenas, 1900s–1990s / 321</td> </tr> <t","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199346","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}