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Autor:
Alessandra Foscati
Publikováno v:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 76:1-19
The caesarean section performed on a living woman to save both mother and baby is first considered in gynaecological texts in the late sixteenth century after the treatise by the French physician François Rousset. It is included alongside descriptio
Autor:
Matthew J McLaughlin
Publikováno v:
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 76(4)
Using the new medical science of endocrinology, scientific sex researchers in the 1920s and 1930s began studying sex hormone excretion as a means to search for the biological basis of human sexuality. One of these researchers was Abraham Myerson, a l
Autor:
Marta V. Vicente
Publikováno v:
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 76(4)
This article explores the history of what the German-American endocrinologist Harry Benjamin labeled in 1966, “the transsexual phenomenon.” By mid-century, a growing number of individuals in both Europe and America were approaching physicians suc
Autor:
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Publikováno v:
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 76(2)
From 1995 to 2014, intrauterine devices (IUDs) rose from ranking 10th (out of 11) among contraceptive methods to being the fourth most popular, outnumbered only by the pill, sterilization, and condoms. In 1995, the IUD had been largely abandoned by A
Autor:
Nic John Ramos
Publikováno v:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 74:57-84
The community mental health movement has been generally regarded as a benevolent movement that replaced old notions of psychiatric racism with new ideas about the normality of race. Few studies, however, have explored the movement for its active supp
Autor:
Ayah Nuriddin
Publikováno v:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 74:85-106
The Crownsville State Hospital, located in Maryland just outside of Annapolis, provides a thought-provoking example of the impact of desegregation in the space of the mental hospital. Using institutional reports, patient records, and oral histories,
Autor:
Ellen Dwyer
Publikováno v:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 74:107-126
There is a rich literature on the deinstitutionalization movement in the US but few, if any, parallel histories of state mental hospitals. Under attack from the 1950s on, state hospitals dwindled in size and importance. Yet, their budgets remained la
Autor:
Caroline Rusterholz
Publikováno v:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 72:448-467
This paper examines the introduction to Britain of the Gräfenberg ring, an early version of what later became known as an intrauterine device (IUD). The struggle during the interwar years to establish the value of the ring provides an opportunity fo
Autor:
Naoko Wake
Publikováno v:
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 74(1)
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality in the United States were both largely in flux between 1910 and 1935. This article sheds light on this unique historical moment by first exploring scholarly discussions of the era’s psychoanalysis and homosexuality,
Autor:
Merlin Chowkwanyun
Publikováno v:
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. 73(3)
Political repression played a central role in shaping the political complexion of the American medical profession, the policies it advocated, and those allowed to function comfortably in it. Previous work on the impact of McCarthyism and medicine foc