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  • CCC volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Central European History / Volume 57 / Issue 1 / March 2024
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    15 March 2024, pp. f1-f6
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  • ‘A sad inheritance of misery’: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England

  • Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
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    Medical History / Volume 68 / Issue 1 / January 2024
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    15 March 2024, pp. 1-21
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  • This essay argues that scrofula was one of several disorders, including gout, rickets, and venereal disease, that were ‘rebranded’ as hereditary in response to broader cultural changes that took place during the Restoration and eighteenth century in England. While the purposes of scrofula’s recategorisation were more political than medical, they resulted in this heretofore relatively obscure childhood ailment assuming a new prominence within both medical and popular discourses of the period. Scrofula became both emblem and proof of the links between sexual promiscuity, financial profligacy, and physiological degeneration, its symbolic status reinforced by the legal and moral language used to model processes of hereditary transmission. By likening the inheritance of scrofula to the inheritance of original sin—or, more commonly, to the inheritance of a ‘docked entail’ or damaged estate—eighteenth-century writers and artists not only made this non-inherited ailment into a sign of catastrophic hereditary decline; they also paved the way for scrofula to be identified as a disease of aristocratic vice, even though its association with crowded, unsanitary living conditions likely made it more common among the poor. By the same token, financial models of disease inheritance facilitated a bias toward paternal transmission, with scrofula often portrayed as passing, like a title or an estate, from father to son rather than from mother to daughter.

  • The Ottoman Empire and Turkey: a great place to visit, a hard place to live

  • Edhem Eldem
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    New Perspectives on Turkey / Volume 70 / May 2024
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    15 March 2024, pp. 126-137
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