Social History of Medicine



Introduction

Social History of Medicine, which members receive free, three times every year, is one of the best-known scholarly journals in the field. Established in 1970 as the Bulletin for the Social History of Medicine, it publishes cutting-edge research on the history of all aspects of health, illness and medical treatment in the past, from antiquity to the present. Papers published in the journal not only seek to expand the boundaries of the discipline, but also to contribute to the central historiographic debates of our time. In the section of book reviews,­ more extensive than in any comparable journal,­ experts from across the globe examine a wide range of recent scholarly publications of interest to historians of medicine. The editors, the editorial board and the contributors to Social History of Medicine are drawn from across the world, and from a range of professions and academic disciplines. Above all, the journal is committed to advancing international and interdisciplinary dialogue between different approaches to the history of medicine in society.


Recent Special Issue

December 2009: Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960 (volume 22, issue 3).

This collection of papers considers the experience of medical refugees in Britain and the wider world. The collection owes its inception to interest in the role of refugees in the modernising of medical provision, and medical research. The refugee situation can only be understood in international terms. Displaced physicians looked – with increasing desperation - throughout the world for locations where their skills might be valued, or at least for a place of safety from worsening Nazi persecution. Humane support for medical refugees clashed with professional restrictionism and animosity against alien practitioners. The refugee experience varied enormously, and it renders the situation complex and open to differing interpretations.


Editors

Co-Editor
Dr Graham Mooney
Institute of the History of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
1900 East Monument
Baltimore, MD 21205
USA



Co-Editor
Professor Bill Luckin
Health and Social Studies
Chadwick Campus
University of Bolton
Bolton BL2 1JW
UK



Review Editor
Dr Anna Greenwood
Department of History
University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4 4RJ
UK



Assistant Editor
Ruth Biddiss
Social History of Medicine
Department of History
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP
UK



Chair of the Editorial Board
Professor Virginia Berridge
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK



 

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