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{"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":"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":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment&lt;/em&gt; by Christina Ramos &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Bianca Premo &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Christina Ramos. &lt;em&gt;Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment&lt;/em&gt;. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xvi + 254 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-1-4696-6657-0). &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 646]&lt;/strong&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; American Association for the History of Medicine:&lt;span&gt;Report of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Inc&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;May 11, 2023&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;Bulletin of the History of Medicine&lt;/em&gt;, 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, &lt;strong&gt;2021&lt;/strong&gt;.\" Council then approved the amended minutes. Council reviewed, discussed, and accepted the &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 658]&lt;/strong&gt; reports of the secretary, treasurer, and the association's standing committees. Council discussed and passed motions on the issues summarized on p. 662.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Report of the Secretary&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Stolberg &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Erik Heinrichs &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Michael Stolberg. &lt;em&gt;Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance&lt;/em&gt;. Translated by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. xxvi + 616 pp. Ill. $118.99 (978-3-11-073835-3). &lt;p&gt;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), &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 644]&lt;/strong&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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}

{"title":"\"Denied the Joys of Motherhood\": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns","authors":"Margaret Andersen","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922707","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>summary:</p><p>The interwar period was marked by developments in fertility medicine and intense concerns about the national birthrate in France. This article explores how physicians leading new specialized fertility clinics promoted the idea that their work treating infertility medically would produce more births for France. It also shows how women's magazines in the 1930s presented new treatment options to their female readership, offering them reassurance and medical advice. Women wrote into advice columns about their experiences with involuntary childlessness, sometimes expressing reluctance to seek fertility testing or continue recommended treatments. Prominent fertility specialists also contributed articles, complete with illustrations, explaining the medical causes of infertility and describing available treatments. These magazines conveyed the message that modern medicine, especially hormonal treatments, offered effective solutions for infertility. Consistent with the dominant pronatalist messages of the period, women were urged to accept medical solutions so they could assume the socially expected role of motherhood.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199269","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 Protein Gap: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Nutrient in International Public Health","authors":"Hannah F. LeBlanc","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>summary:</p><p>From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, international nutritionists considered childhood protein malnutrition the world's most serious public health threat. By 1974, many believed that this \"protein gap\" had been exaggerated. Two questions remain: why protein, and why this period? Four converging developments created a network that maintained protein's \"charisma\": new food technology, a growing international health infrastructure, the nominal demise of eugenics, and new geopolitical priorities in a world shaped by both the Cold War and decolonization struggles. A transnational network of nutrition experts argued that protein deficiencies could explain bodily and population differences that would have, in an earlier era, been attributed to race or inheritance. Protein malnutrition could help explain \"backward\" economies and cultures, they claimed, and protein supplementation would help spur development. The protein gap theory thus framed difference in the language of modernization theory, but left intact older hierarchies of bodies, nations, and races.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199358","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 Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico by Cori Hayden (review)","authors":"David Herzberg","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922721","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico&lt;/em&gt;by Cori Hayden &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; David Herzberg &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Cori Hayden. &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico&lt;/em&gt;. Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, and Ethnography&lt;/article-title&gt;. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2023. xii + 244 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-1-4780-1904-6). &lt;p&gt;What is a \"generic\" medicine? The term wants to signal an absence: no marketing, no branding, just a simple, bare, undifferentiated chemical. Yet as Cori Hayden explains in her brilliant book &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Generic&lt;/em&gt;, claims to genericness are themselves a sort of brand—and a sort of science, and a sort of politics. What sort? Well, actually, lots of different sorts. \"Generic\" can mean an extraordinary number of things and accomplish many different kinds of work, depending who claims it, for what purposes, and in what historical context. In twenty-first-century Mexico, where &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Generic&lt;/em&gt;is (mostly) set, claims of genericness have predominantly been made in the name of making health care more affordable, more accessible, fairer. As Hayden argues, this plan to fix capitalism's injustices with more capitalism extracts its own unpredictable, yet also all-too-predictable, costs. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 654]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hayden begins by exploding the most compelling claim of genericness: that it names the single, undifferentiated Platonic essence of a medicine lying beneath distinctions generated by marketing hype and other cultural enchantments. In turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Mexico, she points out, there were many types of generic medicines, each legitimated by a distinctive commercial and informational infrastructure. The Mexican government formally recognized two of them: chemically equivalent (\"generic\") medicines and bioequivalent (\"generic interchangeable\") medicines. Transnational pharmaceutical companies favored bioequivalence, Hayden explains, but not necessarily because it was a truer marker of sameness. Like chemical equivalence, bioequivalence is a human-designed validation system with its own arbitrary and often circular choices. How close do blood levels have to be to count as \"the same,\" for example? What do such comparisons even mean when original (branded) products themselves vary from batch to batch? Under international pressure, the Mexican government officially began to switch to bioequivalent generics and built up a drug testing infrastructure focused on measuring blood levels. At the same time, however, it also passively resisted the new regime by continuing to accept cheaper, chemically equivalent generics. Medicines, in other words, became \"generic\" only through contested processes that imbued them with (rather than stripping them of) distinctive commercial, scientific, and political significance.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hayden next delves int","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199364","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":"In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550–1750","authors":"David Gentilcore","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922706","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>summary:</p><p>This article is conceived as a contribution to our increasing appreciation of the importance of water for drinking purposes in early modern culture. By analyzing the medical recommendations contained in the case histories and consultations of three prominent Italian doctors—Epifanio Ferdinando, Francesco Redi, and Francesco Torti—it provides evidence of shifting medical knowledge and practice in the use of drinking water. It traces how, as the medical philosophies shifted, so too did the medical use of drinking water, as both aliment (part of a healthy and healing diet) and medicament (part of therapy to treat specific diseases). The most significant finding regards the increasing appreciation and enthusiasm for the health benefits of drinking ordinary local waters, from the mid-seventeenth century. Any ordinary local water would do—as long as it was pure, of good quality, and reputable—overturning a long-standing hierarchy of waters inherited from the ancient world.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199362","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":"Subject and Author Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a922713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a922713","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Subject and Author Index &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Volume 97&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Subject and Author Index&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Volume 97&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pagination according to issues:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;No. 1 (Spring): 1–180&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;No. 2 (Summer): 181–368&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;No. 3 (Fall): 369–529&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;No. 4 (Winter): 531–701&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Abadía-Barrero, César Ernesto, &lt;em&gt;Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital&lt;/em&gt;: 649–50&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Aberth, John, &lt;em&gt;Doctoring the Black Death, Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague&lt;/em&gt;: 157–58&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Addiction: methadone maintenance in 1970s U. S. (K&lt;small&gt;och&lt;/small&gt;): 127–56&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Africa: cancer and \"diseases of civilization\" (C&lt;small&gt;ochrane&lt;/small&gt; &amp; R&lt;small&gt;eubi&lt;/small&gt;): 423–55&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Allied health: minority recruitment in late 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; c. occupational and physical therapy (H&lt;small&gt;ogan&lt;/small&gt;): 614–40&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;American Indians: and vaccination in the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; c. (A&lt;small&gt;rcher&lt;/small&gt;): 255–93&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Andersen, Margaret, \"'Denied the Joys of Motherhood': Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns,\" 560–84&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Archer, Seth, \"Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior,\" 255–93&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Asylums, colony and village: origins of Camphill (S&lt;small&gt;orrels&lt;/small&gt;): 100–126&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bamji, Alexandra, review by: 352–54&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Berrones, Jethro Hernández, review by: 162–63&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Blayney, Steffan, &lt;em&gt;Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body&lt;/em&gt;: 652–54&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Blockade treatment: and methadone maintenance in 1970s U. S. (K&lt;small&gt;och&lt;/small&gt;): 127–56&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bond deregulation: and community health care in Arizona (P&lt;small&gt;ratcher&lt;/small&gt; II): 483–511&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Brandt, Allan, \"Reflecting on the Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg\" (I&lt;small&gt;n&lt;/small&gt; C&lt;small&gt;onversation&lt;/small&gt;): 181–96&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Breast cancer: development of \"hormone-dependent cancers\" (S&lt;small&gt;urita&lt;/small&gt;): 456–82&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Brenner, Elma, review by: 158–60&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Burridge, Claire, review by: 513–15&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cancer: in Africa (C&lt;small&gt;ochrane&lt;/small&gt; &amp; R&lt;small&gt;eubi&lt;/small&gt;): 423–55&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Caquet, P. E., &lt;em&gt;Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year &lt;em&gt;History of the War on Drugs&lt;/em&gt;: 356–58&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Childbirth: pain in early America (D&lt;small&gt;oyle&lt;/small&gt;): 227–54; home births in Ireland, 1900–1950 (D&lt;small&gt;elay&lt;/small&gt;): 394–422&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Children's Bureau: prenatal care in the rural U.S., 1912–1929 (H&lt;small&gt;olding&lt;/small&gt;): 294–320&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;Chinese medicine: Galen &amp; the history of Chinese phlegm (K&lt;small&gt;öhle&lt;/small&gt;): 197–226&lt;/p&gt;","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199352","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}