Medicine
Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent. |
Ian Bradley looks at the life of Vincent Priessnitz, pioneer of hydrotherapy, whose water cures gained advocates throughout 19th-century Europe and beyond and are still popular today. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 1, 2012
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Richard Lansdown introduces Hugh Welch Diamond, one of the fathers of medical photography, whose images of the insane both reflected and challenged prevailing ideas about visually recording insanity. |
Gordon Marsden revisits Henry Fairlie's prescient obituary of Aneurin Bevan, first published in History Today in October 1960. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 8
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In the interests of historical research Lucy Worsley adopted the dental hygiene habits of previous centuries. |
The trade in human organs has given rise to many myths. We should look to its history, argues Richard Sugg, if we are to comprehend its reality. |
Modern day obituaries often speak of illnesses ‘bravely fought’, but the history of pain, a defining and constant experience in lives throughout history, lacks a substantial literature, argues Joanna Bourke. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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A monarch’s divine ability to cure scrofula was an established ritual when James I came to the English throne in 1603. Initially sceptical of the Catholic characteristics of the ceremony, the king found ways to ‘Protestantise’ it and to reflect his own hands-on approach to kingship, writes Stephen Brogan. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 2
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Britain has had a long and sometimes problematic relationship with alcohol. James Nicholls looks back over five centuries to examine the many, often unsuccessful, attempts to reform the nation’s drinking habits. |
Military concerns drove the development of nuclear weapons. But a by-product of this huge deployment of scientific resources by the US and the UK was an upsurge in biological research leading to a new age of regenerative medicine. Alison Kraft discusses the history of stem cell biology. |
The natural philosopher and scientist Robert Boyle was revered in his time for his pioneering enquiry into a wide range of natural phenomena.Yet within half a century of his death he was almost forgotten, overshadowed by his contemporary Isaac Newton. Michael Hunter explains why. |
Recent research by medical scientists and historians suggests that George III had manic depression rather than porphyria. Scholars will need to take a fresh look at his reign, writes Timothy Peters. |
Wendy Moore catches a rare glimpse of a medical collection that includes tonsil guillotines and implements for trepanning. |
Janet Copeland introduces one of the most important feminist figures in twentieth-century history. |
Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago. |
Paddy Hartley describes how an interest in the treatment of facial injuries in the First World War led him to develop a new form of sculpture. |
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