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Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine, health and related sciences, with the goal of broadening and deepening the understanding of the field, in the widest sense, by historical studies of the highest quality. It is associated with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, the Asian Society for the History of Medicine, and the World Health Organization's Global Health Histories initiative. The membership of the Editorial Board reflects the commitment to the finest international standards in refereeing of submitted papers and the reviewing of books. The journal publishes in English, but welcomes submissions from scholars for whom English is not the first language; language and copy-editing assistance will be provided wherever possible.
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- The Ancient Constitution and the Languages of Political Thought
- 04 December 2018,
- My essay explores the nature of the myth of the Ancient Constitution, its manifestations over three centuries, and its historical and conceptual difficulties....
- Science in History: From the Cold War to Trump
- 27 November 2018,
- This episode neatly captures the way in which Cold War politics framed much of the debate about the history of science in the twentieth century. My Retrospect...
- Male Anxiety and the English Landed Gentry 1700-1900
- 26 November 2018,
- Our article explores anxiety as a gendered emotion in a specific part of a social group across a long period of time: the anxieties of younger sons of the English...