{"title":"Books Also Received","authors":"D. Armus, Pablo F. Gómez, K. Hussey","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"1 1","pages":"94 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79945888","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}
struggling to assess historical materials from the PRC. In the conclusion, Fang clarifies the core concept of the ‘emergency disciplinary state’ and discusses similarities to how the PRC has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fang’s core argument is that the PRC’s emergency disciplinary state was established in reaction to the El Tor cholera pandemic. However, the book can also be read as an account of the resistance, confrontations, and negotiations that occurred between various strands of power in moving towards that style of governance, whichwas not without its blind spots: public health staff encountered difficulties and even violence when attempting to check inoculation certificates of officers in the People’s Liberation Army (Chapter 4); overseas Chinese were exempted from vaccination certificate checks because the PRC needed their remittances and skills (Chapter 4); and the Zhejiang government adapted its 1963 vaccination campaign to avoid peak farming season due to the passive participation of local cadres and farmworkers the previous year (Chapter 6). There was therefore some flexibility in the PRC’s seemingly strict approach to epidemic control. It is unfortunate that Fang does not analyse the sources cited in the text more often, as the rare occasions where he weighs in on conflicting information encountered in the archives (pp. 41–3) are enlightening. Chapter 2 also includes some passages in which the causal relationship between environmental and social factors and the public health situation are not clearly established by historical sources or by the author himself (pp. 74–5, 100). Fang’s account of this much-overlooked public health crisis draws on abundant historical materials. The book is a must-read for historians and students interested in the PRC’s health policies, as well as for those curious about crisis governance in the PRC at the national, provincial, and county levels during transitional years between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
{"title":"Sethina Watson, On Hospitals: Welfare, Law and Christianity in Western Europe, 400–1320 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020). 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-884753-3.","authors":"Herwig Weigl","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.52","url":null,"abstract":"struggling to assess historical materials from the PRC. In the conclusion, Fang clarifies the core concept of the ‘emergency disciplinary state’ and discusses similarities to how the PRC has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fang’s core argument is that the PRC’s emergency disciplinary state was established in reaction to the El Tor cholera pandemic. However, the book can also be read as an account of the resistance, confrontations, and negotiations that occurred between various strands of power in moving towards that style of governance, whichwas not without its blind spots: public health staff encountered difficulties and even violence when attempting to check inoculation certificates of officers in the People’s Liberation Army (Chapter 4); overseas Chinese were exempted from vaccination certificate checks because the PRC needed their remittances and skills (Chapter 4); and the Zhejiang government adapted its 1963 vaccination campaign to avoid peak farming season due to the passive participation of local cadres and farmworkers the previous year (Chapter 6). There was therefore some flexibility in the PRC’s seemingly strict approach to epidemic control. It is unfortunate that Fang does not analyse the sources cited in the text more often, as the rare occasions where he weighs in on conflicting information encountered in the archives (pp. 41–3) are enlightening. Chapter 2 also includes some passages in which the causal relationship between environmental and social factors and the public health situation are not clearly established by historical sources or by the author himself (pp. 74–5, 100). Fang’s account of this much-overlooked public health crisis draws on abundant historical materials. The book is a must-read for historians and students interested in the PRC’s health policies, as well as for those curious about crisis governance in the PRC at the national, provincial, and county levels during transitional years between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"18 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86293326","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":"Sasha Mullally and David Wright, Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare (Montreal, Kingston, London & Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), pp. 360, $39.95, paperback, ISBN: 9780228003717.","authors":"P. Larsson","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"42 1","pages":"85 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86120222","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}
Abstract Medical acculturation forms a crucial part of the process of migration, and equally, the influx of migrants can shape how medical structures develop in receiving societies – nowhere is that more evident than in the American metropolis. In the late nineteenth century, few ethnic groups caused such sustained bio-hazard concerns as the Irish in America. Poverty and the sheer numbers migrating in the post-Famine (1852-) era, caused the immigrant Irish body to be pathologised, or described in medical terms, to a much greater degree and for longer than their Anglo-Saxon or German counterparts. With a particular focus on Irishwomen’s use of maternity services in New York and Boston, this article aims to elucidate the potential of medical records to flesh out the understandings of how immigrants navigated healthcare. By adopting a case study approach to hospital records in tandem with other data sources, it shows what is being lost through restrictive data protection legislation. It discusses how Irishness was politicised in the contexts of immigration, the social history of medicine and medicalisation.
{"title":"Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–1911","authors":"C. Breathnach","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.41","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Medical acculturation forms a crucial part of the process of migration, and equally, the influx of migrants can shape how medical structures develop in receiving societies – nowhere is that more evident than in the American metropolis. In the late nineteenth century, few ethnic groups caused such sustained bio-hazard concerns as the Irish in America. Poverty and the sheer numbers migrating in the post-Famine (1852-) era, caused the immigrant Irish body to be pathologised, or described in medical terms, to a much greater degree and for longer than their Anglo-Saxon or German counterparts. With a particular focus on Irishwomen’s use of maternity services in New York and Boston, this article aims to elucidate the potential of medical records to flesh out the understandings of how immigrants navigated healthcare. By adopting a case study approach to hospital records in tandem with other data sources, it shows what is being lost through restrictive data protection legislation. It discusses how Irishness was politicised in the contexts of immigration, the social history of medicine and medicalisation.","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"63 1","pages":"3 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74090623","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}
Abstract This article aims to demonstrate how researchers from different South American countries took part in the process of globalisation of the tropical medicine paradigm, through research on leishmaniasis found in this region. The main objective of the present article is to highlight the role of these researchers, as well as of their scientific institutions, in a global history of tropical medicine which surpassed European borders and its imperialistic practices. At the same time, it will be identified the renewal of the tropical medicine paradigm in the South American context. During the beginning of the twentieth century, leishmaniasis became an important health issue in tropical areas, whereas the mere usage of the repertoire of the medical knowledge, produced in Europe up until that time, revealed itself as an insufficient instrument to help solve the problem. Hereupon, this matter was, above all, an open discussion, which required great skills and refined techniques of tropical medicine for its study. For this reason, it enabled the members of the regional medical communities to establish vigorous communication channels with medical centres, located in other continents, that had already been giving much deserved importance to leishmaniasis as an exciting scientific theme.
{"title":"The South American medical communities in the genesis of the tropical medicine: construction and circulation of knowledge on American leishmaniasis in the beginning of the twentieth century","authors":"Denis Guedes Jogas","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.42","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to demonstrate how researchers from different South American countries took part in the process of globalisation of the tropical medicine paradigm, through research on leishmaniasis found in this region. The main objective of the present article is to highlight the role of these researchers, as well as of their scientific institutions, in a global history of tropical medicine which surpassed European borders and its imperialistic practices. At the same time, it will be identified the renewal of the tropical medicine paradigm in the South American context. During the beginning of the twentieth century, leishmaniasis became an important health issue in tropical areas, whereas the mere usage of the repertoire of the medical knowledge, produced in Europe up until that time, revealed itself as an insufficient instrument to help solve the problem. Hereupon, this matter was, above all, an open discussion, which required great skills and refined techniques of tropical medicine for its study. For this reason, it enabled the members of the regional medical communities to establish vigorous communication channels with medical centres, located in other continents, that had already been giving much deserved importance to leishmaniasis as an exciting scientific theme.","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"39 1","pages":"64 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90111939","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}
immigration policy in favour of attracting ‘highly skilled manpower’ through a points-based system. While this successfully increasedmedical immigration to the country, it would be condemned as a global ‘brain drain’ of skilled individuals by Western countries, especially the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. This international discourse is the focus of Chapter 6 of the monograph, highlighting the criticisms levelled at industrialised countries which had absorbed nearly 90% of the world’s migrant physicians (p. 160). In Canada, this enabled the supplementation of rural and remote health regions with a growing foreign workforce of medical professionals. Two full chapters of the book provide intimate case studies of the development of unique health cultures in rural areas, with Chapter 8 comparing the examples of two resource towns: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Thompson, Manitoba. The discussion finishes once again with domestic policy review of the novel incentive policies passed in the 1970s to relocate physicians towards underserved areas of the country. Mullally andWright employed comprehensive researchmethods for this work, with quantitative data forming a core part of the evidence. Using the Canadian Medical Directory, the annual returns of the federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship, multiple published reports from medical journals and an abundance of popular news and media resources, the authors compiled a substantial database regardingmigrant doctors, their countries of origin, counties of study, location of settlement and general demographic information. The statistics that emerged from these data provide a solid foundation for their assertations about the influx and outflow of medically trained individuals and highlight the quantitative impact of a ‘brain gain’ on Canadian medical practice and policy. However, the true strength of the work is the combined approach which supplements the hard statistics and policy discussions with the personal stories of men and women which were collected through oral interviews over several years. A glance through the sources demonstrates that this work was years in the making, and the authors took care to follow up on leads and contact numerous external individuals for added insight. One minor limitation to the qualitative content is the high ratio of male voices, which at times overshadows the contributions and experiences of foreign female medical professionals. Nonetheless, this is a significant work of history which does much to reconceptualise the narratives told about Canadian Medicare. Through its exploration of the ways that foreign-trained doctors settled into Canadian structures of medicine and subsequently moulded those structures over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, Foreign Practices provides a new framing for the national Medicare system, one which recognises the contributions of immigrant medical workers and marries the national belief of a homegrown system, with
{"title":"Alastair Compston, All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity. A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621–1675 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xvi + 805, £99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9780198795391.","authors":"A. N. Williams","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.49","url":null,"abstract":"immigration policy in favour of attracting ‘highly skilled manpower’ through a points-based system. While this successfully increasedmedical immigration to the country, it would be condemned as a global ‘brain drain’ of skilled individuals by Western countries, especially the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. This international discourse is the focus of Chapter 6 of the monograph, highlighting the criticisms levelled at industrialised countries which had absorbed nearly 90% of the world’s migrant physicians (p. 160). In Canada, this enabled the supplementation of rural and remote health regions with a growing foreign workforce of medical professionals. Two full chapters of the book provide intimate case studies of the development of unique health cultures in rural areas, with Chapter 8 comparing the examples of two resource towns: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Thompson, Manitoba. The discussion finishes once again with domestic policy review of the novel incentive policies passed in the 1970s to relocate physicians towards underserved areas of the country. Mullally andWright employed comprehensive researchmethods for this work, with quantitative data forming a core part of the evidence. Using the Canadian Medical Directory, the annual returns of the federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship, multiple published reports from medical journals and an abundance of popular news and media resources, the authors compiled a substantial database regardingmigrant doctors, their countries of origin, counties of study, location of settlement and general demographic information. The statistics that emerged from these data provide a solid foundation for their assertations about the influx and outflow of medically trained individuals and highlight the quantitative impact of a ‘brain gain’ on Canadian medical practice and policy. However, the true strength of the work is the combined approach which supplements the hard statistics and policy discussions with the personal stories of men and women which were collected through oral interviews over several years. A glance through the sources demonstrates that this work was years in the making, and the authors took care to follow up on leads and contact numerous external individuals for added insight. One minor limitation to the qualitative content is the high ratio of male voices, which at times overshadows the contributions and experiences of foreign female medical professionals. Nonetheless, this is a significant work of history which does much to reconceptualise the narratives told about Canadian Medicare. Through its exploration of the ways that foreign-trained doctors settled into Canadian structures of medicine and subsequently moulded those structures over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, Foreign Practices provides a new framing for the national Medicare system, one which recognises the contributions of immigrant medical workers and marries the national belief of a homegrown system, with ","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"35 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77084923","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":"Aro Velmet, Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology & Politics in France, Its Colonies, & the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xiv + 306, $78.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780190072827.","authors":"C. Thompson","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.50","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"1 1","pages":"88 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89522533","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":"With all best wishes for the future","authors":"S. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1017/mdh.2021.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.46","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18275,"journal":{"name":"Medical History","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73549651","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}
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