Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915270
Gina Surita
summary:
This article considers the establishment of the category of "hormone-dependent cancers," identified around the middle of the twentieth century as cancers sustained by particular hormones. A comparison of hormonal treatments for prostate cancer and those for breast cancer reveals that the genesis of "hormone-dependent cancer" as a biomedical category relied upon assumptions that cast androgens and estrogens as opposing ends of a gendered hormonal binary of health and disease. In the 1930s, cancer researchers claimed "female sex hormones" (estrogens) exacerbated breast cancer and "male sex hormones" (androgens) prevented it. In the early 1940s, Dr. Charles Huggins applied the opposite logic to the treatment of human prostate cancer, which he determined to be "hormone-dependent." As "hormone dependency" was also recognized in human breast cancer over the subsequent decades, estrogen claimed a prominent place in discussions of breast cancer's causation, diagnosis, and treatment. This close association between estrogen and breast cancer contributed to reinterpretations of both biomedical categories.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915280
<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Books Received* <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> Joseph N. Abraham. <em>Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation</em>. Hidden Hills Press, 2020. xxiv + 308 pp. Ill. n.p. (978-0-578-68059-0). Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen, eds. <em>Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World</em>. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023. x + 370 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-1-7936-5122-8). Marie Baudoin. <em>The Art of Childbirth</em>. Cathy McClive, ed. and trans. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 98. New York: Iter Press, 2022. x + 244 pp. Ill. $54.95 (978-1-64959-078-7). Kathleen M. Brown. <em>Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition</em>. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 448 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-512823271). Katherine Fierlbeck and Gregory P. Marchildon. <em>The Boundaries of Medicare: Public Health Care Beyond the Canada Health Act</em>. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. x + 196 pp. $34.95 (978-0-2280-1632-8). Lewis A. Grossman. <em>Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 406 pp. Ill. $37.99 (978-0-19-061275-7). Gregory Hanlon. <em>Death Control in the West, 1500–1800: Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England</em>. London: Routledge, 2023. xx + 308 pp. Ill. $39.16 (978-1-03-226758-6). Lisa Haushofer. <em>Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition</em>. California Studies in Food and Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. xii + 178 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-39039-3). Heidi Hausse. <em>The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany</em>. Social Histories of Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xiv + 274 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-1-5261-6065-2). 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>*The <em>Bulletin</em> reserves freedom of decision as to the publications to be included in this section. Items received, other than those reviewed, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine. <strong>[End Page 527]</strong></p> Allan V. Horwitz. <em>Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types</em>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. xii + 228 pp. $35.00 (978-1-4214-4610-3). Guian A. McKee. <em>Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care</em>. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. x + 382 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-5128-2393-6). Kevin McQueeney. <em>A City Without
收到的书籍* Joseph N. Abraham.国王、征服者、精神病患者:从亚历山大到希特勒再到公司。隐山出版社,2020 年。xxiv + 308 pp.n.p. (978-0-578-68059-0)。Poonam Bala 和 Russel Viljoen 编辑。Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World. Lanham, Md.Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023.x + 370 pp.插图。125.00 美元(978-1-7936-5122-8)。玛丽-鲍多因。分娩的艺术》。Cathy McClive 编辑和翻译。早期现代欧洲的另一种声音》:多伦多丛书,98。纽约:Iter Press, 2022.x + 244 pp.插图,54.95 美元(978-1-64959-078-7)。Kathleen M. Brown.Undoing Slavery:废除奴隶制时代的身体、种族和权利》。早期美国研究》。Philadelphia:费城:宾夕法尼亚大学出版社,2023 年。448 pp.39.95 美元(978-1-512823271)。Katherine Fierlbeck 和 Gregory P. Marchildon.医疗保险的边界:加拿大健康法案》之外的公共医疗保健。McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society.蒙特利尔:Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.x + 196 pp.$34.95 (978-0-2280-1632-8).Lewis A. Grossman.Choose Your Medicine:美国的治疗选择自由》。纽约:牛津大学出版社,2021 年。x + 406 pp.插图,37.99 美元(978-0-19-061275-7)。Gregory Hanlon.西方的死亡控制,1500-1800 年:意大利、法国和英国洗礼时的性别比例》。伦敦:Routledge, 2023.xx + 308 pp.插图,39.16 美元(978-1-03-226758-6)。Lisa Haushofer.神奇食品:营养的科学与商业》。加州食品与文化研究》。奥克兰:加州大学出版社,2023 年。xii + 178 pp.插图。29.95 美元(978-0-520-39039-3)。海蒂-豪斯可塑的身体:早期现代德国的外科医生、工匠和截肢者》。医学社会史》。曼彻斯特:曼彻斯特大学出版社,2023 年。xiv + 274 pp.插图。65.00 美元(978-1-5261-6065-2)。Klaus Hoeyer.数据悖论:数据悖论:当代医疗保健中强化数据源的政治学》。Infrastructures Series.马萨诸塞州剑桥:麻省理工学院出版社,2023 年。314 pp Ill. 50.00 美元 (978-0-262-54541-9)。*公告》保留决定将哪些出版物纳入本部分的自由。除已审阅的出版物外,收到的其他出版物最终将纳入医学史研究所的藏书中。[End Page 527] Allan V. Horwitz.人格障碍:A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types.巴尔的摩:约翰-霍普金斯大学出版社,2023 年。xii + 228 pp.$35.00 (978-1-4214-4610-3).Guian A. McKee.Hospital City, Health Care Nation:Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care.现代美国的政治与文化》。Philadelphia:Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.x + 382 pp.45.00 美元(978-1-5128-2393-6)。凯文-麦奎尼A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities and Health Care Activism in New Orleans.社会医学研究》。Chapel Hill:Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.xiv + 271 pp.插图。29.95 美元(978-1-4696-7392-9)。Alex Mold, Peder Clark, and Hannah J. Elizabeth, eds.公众及其健康:历史问题与观点》。医学社会史》。曼彻斯特:曼彻斯特大学出版社,2023 年。x + 206 pp.$140.00 (978-1-5261-5675-4).Sarah Mellors Rodriguez.Reproductive Realities in Modern China:生育控制与堕胎,1911-2021 年》。剑桥中华人民共和国史研究》。剑桥:剑桥大学出版社,2023 年。xiv + 250 pp.110.00 美元(978-1-316-51531-0)。Elaine Schattner.从耳语到呐喊:我们谈论癌症的方式》。New York:哥伦比亚大学出版社,2023 年。xiv + 362 pp.插图,29.95 美元(978-0-231-19226-2)。Leslie A. Schwalm.内战美国的医学、科学和种族构成》。Chapel Hill:Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.xvi + 218 pp.插图。24.95 美元(978-1-4696-7269-4)。马修-史密斯The First Resort:美国社会精神病学史》。纽约:哥伦比亚大学出版社,2023 年。xii + 410 pp.插图,30.00 美元(978-0-231-20393-7)。Katherine Sorrels, Vanessa Carbonell, Danielle Bessett, Lora Arduser, Edward V. Wallace, and Michelle L. McGowan, Eds.俄亥俄州 COVID:美国中心地带危机中的教训》。Ann Arbor:密歇根大学出版社,2023 年。xii + 328 pp.39.95 美元(978-0-472...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915275
Alexei B. Kojevnikov
<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR</em> by Tricia Starks <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Alexei B. Kojevnikov </li> </ul> Tricia Starks. <em>Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR</em>. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca, N.Y..: Cornell University Press, 2022. xx + 302 pp. Ill. $44.95 ( 978-1-5017-6548-3). <p>The Soviet Union was one of the word's main producers and consumers of tobacco products, competing in this widespread habit and unhealthy business, although not quite reaching the levels achieved by the United States. As a basic social phenomenon, smoking did not know political and ideological boundaries, but was not independent from them either. Tricia Starks accumulated a very rich, diverse, and culturally revealing body of sources explaining how the different patterns of manufacturing, selling, and opposing the use of tobacco developed over the seven decades of Soviet history.</p> <p>Tobacco came to Russia via Western Europe in the seventeenth century, defying initial bans on religious grounds. It was fully legalized by Peter the Great, and by 1900 the country was fully affected by the global epidemic of smoking, which spread wider during World War I. Soldiers and workers whose mass action made the revolution of 1917 filled the halls and streets with the smell of cheap tobacco, but Lenin personally hated smoking and tried to ban it during Bolshevik meetings. In 1920, Commissar of Public Health Nikolai Semashko launched the public propaganda campaign against smoking as damaging to health, but this internationally pathbreaking effort by the first socialist state competed against economic interests of other governmental agencies that wanted to restore tobacco production decimated by the war, provide jobs, and satisfy the demand of revolutionary masses. While health officials and doctors were inventing pioneering methods to encourage and assist cessation, the semicapitalist New Economic Policy economy designed artistically innovative commercials for the booming tobacco factories.</p> <p>Stalinist industrialization prioritized increased mass production to meet the growing demand. Cessation efforts and sales commercials became less visible, with emphasis more on cultured consumption and quality improvement or the shift from cottage-industry-style cheap tobacco (<em>makhorka</em>) toward industrially made <em>papirosen</em> and cigarettes. While consumers were overwhelmingly male, females constituted the bulk of the labor force in the tobacco economy, which achieved <strong>[End Page 518]</strong> great strides in approaching the "equal pay for equal work" goal and promoting women to responsible positions, such as director of the most prestigious Iava factory, Maria Ivanova. While the government message that nicotine was bad for health remained valid, especially for schoolkids, it was not very effective when the same government worshiped St
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915267
Janet Golden
summary:
This paper explores the experiences of working-class patients treated for tertiary syphilis at the Neurology Dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Infirmary for Nervous Disease of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital from 1878 to 1917. Using the twin lenses of medical history and disability history, it foregrounds the struggles of individuals whose physical condition cannot be reversed.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915269
Thandeka Cochrane, David Reubi
summary:
The phrase "disease of civilization" and concomitant lexicons, such as "pathologies of modernization," frequently surface across public and global health discourses. This is particularly the case within the framework of cancer research in Africa. In this article, the authors trace the emergence of these grammars of progress at the beginning of the twentieth century as a biomedical lens through which to analyze and frame cancer in Africa. Arguing with Ann Stoler for a recursive understanding of colonial and postcolonial history, the authors follow in detail the lexical shifts and recursions across the twentieth century, as these grammars move from diseases of civilization to development and modernization. In tracing these lexical shifts, they place them within the broader understandings of Africa and the African body as an other against which Euro-America frames itself.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915273
Claire Burridge
<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing</em> ed. by Sarah Star <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Claire Burridge </li> </ul> Sarah Star, ed. <em>Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing</em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xii + 212 pp. $55.00 ( 978-1-4875-2953-6). <p>Henry Daniel, an English Dominican friar active in the fourteenth century, is not a household name in the history of medicine, even among many medievalists. Yet, as <em>Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing</em> readily illustrates, Daniel and his surviving Middle English medical treatises (the <em>Liber Uricrisiarum</em>, a diagnostic text on uroscopy, and the so-called <em>Aaron Danielis</em>, a herbal) deserve to be better known and further studied—and not exclusively by medical historians.</p> <p>Edited by Sarah Star, <em>Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing</em> introduces Daniel and the significance of his work, focusing primarily on the major <em>Liber Uricrisiarum</em>, a text produced and revised between <em>c</em>. 1375–82, while also considering his slightly later herbal treatise. Daniel was a pathbreaker in the vernacularization of medicine, a fact to which he alerts his readers: he explicitly <strong>[End Page 513]</strong> claims to be the first person to write on uroscopy in English. Indeed, Daniel consciously chose to write these works in English—despite the challenges this presented—in order to "increase access to this important knowledge" (p. 4). The present edited volume now "aims to extend Daniel's project" (p. 4) by opening up his work to wider audiences, including historians of medieval medicine, religious communities, and the English language as well as scholars in adjacent and intersecting disciplines, such as philology and lexicology, literary studies, and manuscript studies. The assembled chapters do precisely that, not only contextualizing the development and legacy of the <em>Liber Uricrisiarum</em> but also demonstrating its importance to multiple fields.</p> <p>Star's opening introductory chapter sets out the surprising state of scholarship on Daniel and his works: although the <em>Liber Uricrisiarum</em> was penned "on the cusp of what would become a burgeoning vernacular movement" (p. 3) and contributed to the development of Middle English medical writing, it has remained largely overlooked and understudied. This volume, a product of the Henry Daniel Project at the University of Toronto and a companion to the <em>Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition</em>, represents an important step in introducing Daniel, his writings, and their long-term significance.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>Following Star's introduction, the volume is divided into two parts: "Contexts" (Chapters 1–3) and "Texts and Legacies" (Chapters 4–7). Faith Wallis' chapter begins Part I, establishing the textual background to the <em>Liber Ur
评论者 Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing ed. by Sarah Star Claire Burridge Sarah Star, ed. Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing.多伦多:多伦多大学出版社,2022 年。xii + 212 pp.$55.00 ( 978-1-4875-2953-6).活跃于 14 世纪的英国多明我会修士亨利-丹尼尔在医学史上并不家喻户晓,即使在许多中世纪学者中也是如此。然而,正如《亨利-丹尼尔与中古英语医学写作的兴起》一书所展示的那样,丹尼尔和他现存的中古英语医学论文(Liber Uricrisiarum,一部关于尿路镜检查的诊断书,以及所谓的 Aaron Danielis,一部草药书)值得被更多人了解和深入研究--而且不仅仅是医学史学者。亨利-丹尼尔和中古英语医学著作的兴起》由莎拉-斯塔(Sarah Star)编辑,介绍了丹尼尔及其著作的意义,主要侧重于约 1375-82 年间创作和修订的主要著作 Liber Uricrisiarum,同时也考虑了他稍晚的草药论文。丹尼尔是医学白话化的开路先锋,他提醒读者注意这一事实:他明确 [尾页 513]声称自己是第一个用英语撰写尿路镜检查的人。事实上,丹尼尔有意识地选择用英语撰写这些著作--尽管这带来了挑战--目的是 "让更多人了解这一重要知识"(第 4 页)。本编辑集现在 "旨在扩展丹尼尔的项目"(第 4 页),向更广泛的读者,包括中世纪医学史、宗教团体和英语语言的历史学家,以及相邻和交叉学科的学者,如语言学和词汇学、文学研究和手稿研究,开放丹尼尔的作品。所收集的章节正是如此,不仅介绍了 Liber Uricrisiarum 的发展背景和遗产,还展示了其对多个领域的重要性。斯塔在开篇的介绍性章节中阐述了有关丹尼尔及其作品的令人惊讶的学术研究现状:尽管《Liber Uricrisiarum》的写作 "正处于日后蓬勃发展的白话文运动的风口浪尖"(第 3 页),并对中古英语医学写作的发展做出了贡献,但它在很大程度上仍被忽视和研究不足。本卷是多伦多大学亨利-丹尼尔项目的成果,也是《Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition》的配套书,是介绍丹尼尔、他的著作及其长远意义的重要一步1:1 在斯达的引言之后,全书分为两部分:"背景"(第 1-3 章)和 "文本与遗产"(第 4-7 章)。Faith Wallis 的章节开始了第一部分,通过展示 "尿科学在西方医学中的中心地位"(第 18 页),并回顾了流传的四部重要拉丁尿科学文献,即 Theophilus 的 De urinis、Isaac Judaeus 的 De urinis、Gilles de Corbeil 的 Carmen de urinis 和 Avicenna 的 Canon,建立了 Liber Uricrisiarum 的文本背景。与传统观点不同的是,丹尼尔的文本并非简单地将早期拉丁文资料翻译成中古英语,而是汇集了一系列资料来源的创新性原创学术著作。在下一章中,温斯顿-布莱克继续探讨作者身份的问题,而将重点放在了亚伦-丹尼尔斯的草药上。通过研究丹尼尔对草药的两个主要来源(Macer Floridus 的 De viribis herbarum 和 Henry of Huntingdon 的 Anglicanus Ortus)进行的 "双重翻译"(第 39 页),即从拉丁文翻译成英文,从诗句翻译成散文,布莱克对丹尼尔的草药知识和他的写作策略提供了丰富的见解。第一部分的最后一章从但以理的文本来源转向他的同时代人:彼得-默里-琼斯(Peter Murray Jones)将丹尼尔和他的作品与当时英国的其他医学作家,尤其是那些来自修道会的作家进行了比较。在此过程中,琼斯总结出了 "丹尼尔作品的新颖之处和与众不同之处"(第 63 页),例如他的目标读者群和对尿路镜检查的重视,以及这些作者更广泛采用的方法,包括纳入预后实验来预测病人的预后。[第 2 部分各章将讨论 Liber Uricrisiarum 的文本和......
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915268
Cara Delay
summary:
This article examines the development of a collaborative model of home-based reproductive caregiving in Ireland from 1900 to 1950, focusing on the interactions of different practitioners in childbirth cases in the domestic sphere. In Ireland the move to obstetrics and trained nursing and midwifery was gradual, complicated by the needs and wants of ordinary women, who were reluctant to give up their trusted care givers and who actively sought to maintain long-standing domestic health care traditions. The result was a hybrid and collaborative model of domestic reproductive health care, requiring the attention of different practitioners, placing them in the same space, and necessitating that they work together. This dynamic and evolving system provided most pregnant, laboring, and postparturient women with essential reproductive care, but it would be overtaken by hospital-based reproductive medicine by around 1950, remaining only in folklore and memory by the late twentieth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905734
Linda Pollock
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905739
Johanna T. Crane
Despite the myriad indignities and frustrations of this topic, the book is decidedly optimistic about the present and future. For example, the past decade’s opioid epidemic forced public and private groups to rethink how drug addiction should be addressed (p. 4). Swelling public support for cannabis reform is another area where Farber believes the country is nearing an inflection point on its willingness to support the War on Drugs as faithfully as heretofore. One poll said that half of those surveyed said all drug offenses should be treated in civil, not criminal, court. Not unrelated to this changing public sentiment, erstwhile drug hawk Joe Biden on the 2000 campaign trail stated, “No one should be incarcerated for drug use [of any kind]” (pp. 1–2). At the same time, Farber is on solid ground when he adds that these same Americans are uneasy about what might replace the fifty-year war: primum non nocere. Despite these startling new developments toward overdue reassessment and reform, Farber and his colleagues do worry that while public support for the War on Drugs has dwindled, the “sunk costs” of this once-believed eternal war might be enough to keep it in business long past its shelf life. “People continue to worry about the financial and human cost of prisons larded with convicted non-violent drug offenders, but prison guard unions, police unions and fraternal organizations, private contractors, and other economic interests fight to keep the drug offender-to-prison pipeline flowing” (p. 2). Do not read this volume for balance, as the authors would likely agree that they are categorical critics of the War of Drugs. But they are reasonable and empirical critics, which very much bolsters their credibility.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905736
Helen Anne Curry
suls, diplomats, and public health officials involved in a transnational and multilingual exchange of information. Ermus displays considerable skill in conveying the complexity and nuances of these exchanges, particularly in explaining the mixed messages that originated in Marseille and in commenting on the timescales for the circulation of information. If these are the primary contributions of this book, there are also rich and fascinating discussions of themes that emerge from the case studies that it develops, particularly in chapter 5, which explores ideas about the relationship between illicit trade, disease, and violence in colonial contexts. This chapter also assesses the limited concern about smallpox on slave ships in colonial contexts, prompting reflection on the relationship of responses to plague and smallpox in this period. Overall, this impressive study reminds scholars working on the impact of disease of the importance of evaluating the geographical and political breadth of its reach.
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