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- Editors: Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya University of York, UK, Dr Arnab Chakraborty University of York, UK, Dr Aude Fauvel Institut des humanités en médecine, Switzerland, and Professor Kayo Yasuda Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
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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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Global Health Histories
Global Health Histories aims to publish outstanding and innovative scholarship on the history of public health, medicine and science worldwide. By studying the many ways in which the impact of ideas of health and well-being on society were measured and described in different global, international, regional, national and local contexts, books in the series will reconceptualise the nature of empire, the nation state, extra-state actors and different forms of globalization. The series will showcase new approaches to writing about the connected histories of health and medicine, humanitarianism, and global economic and social development.
General Editor: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, University of York
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History of Science and Medicine on the blog
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The Society of Astrologers (c.1647-1684): Promoting Astrology in Church and in the Pub
- 29 March 2021,
- People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these...
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When Life Interrupts Science: Precarity, Pranks, and Discipline at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- 24 March 2021,
- ...the observatory staff, the largest portion of whom were adolescent boys hired to do computational work, had to be managed too. Airy worked hard to deskill...
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A Quiet Landmark in Biology: How Pus from Discarded Bandages led to DNA
- 23 March 2021,
- Almost a century before Watson and Crick, Miescher had been working in the freezing cold former kitchen of Tübingen Castle that had now been converted into...