History of Medicine

Editor in Chief | Area Editors | Forthcoming Articles

The history of medicine is a venerable discipline that has seen many transformations in topics, authorship, and applications. Orienting researchers through the labyrinthine currents of the vast field has become a daunting task. Oxford Bibliographies in the History of Medicine is a resource meant to guide scholarly research through the growing mass of academic output, offering selective annotated research paths that are insightful, diverse, and highlight quality scholarship. This resource aims to cover the field, from its ancient beginnings to the work of contemporary experts who draw on a variety of related disciplines.

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Editor in Chief

Jacalyn Duffin, CM, MD (Toronto 1974), PhD (Sorbonne 1985), FRCPC, FRSC, FCAH, is a hematologist and historian and professor emerita at Queen’s University where she occupied the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine from 1988 to 2017. A former president of both the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, she is the author or editor of eleven books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, holds several awards for teaching, research and service, including Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (2012) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2013), induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2019), and is a three-time winner of the Jason A. Hannah Medal for scholarly writing. In 2020, she was named to the Order of Canada. Her research focuses on disease, technology, religion, and health policy. She runs an activist website for information about the drug shortage and established a collaborative online project to translate from Latin the 85 consultations of the 17th-century physician and lawyer, Paolo Zacchia. Her book on Canada’s medical expedition to Easter Island was published as Stanley’s Dream in 2019 and her COVID-19: A History was released in October 2022 – both with McGill-Queen’s University Press.
 

AREA EDITORS

Patricia D’Antonio
University of Pennsylvania
Janet Golden
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Alexander Medcalf
University of York
Thomas Schlich
McGill University
Jaipreet Virdi
University of Delaware
Liz Watkins
University of California, Riverside

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

* = recently published

 

Child Health/Pediatrics

Child Abuse*
Ruth Beecher
Birkbeck, University of London

 

Disability

Disability History outside of a Western Framework*
Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Hope College
Eugenics*
Molly Ladd-Taylor
York University
Freakery*
Andrea Zittlau
Universität Rostock
Indigenous Institutionalization in the United States*
Sarah Whitt
University of California Irvine
Mobility Disabilities*
Rachael Gillibrand
University of Leeds
Monstrous Births*
Miriam Rich
University of Texas Medical Branch
People with Mental and Intellectual Disabilities*
Geoffrey Reaume
York University
Prostheses*
Heidi Hausse
Auburn University
Rehabilitation and Disability*
Stephen E. Mawdsley
University of Bristol
Sensory Disabilities*
Katie Healey
Rochester Institute of Technology

 

Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, and Pharmacy

African Pharmaceuticals*
Gabrielle Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
Alila Brossard Antonielli
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Antibiotics*
Scott Podolsky
Harvard Medical School
Discovery and Development of Magic Bullets and Miracle and Wonder Drugs*
Toine Pieters
Universiteit Utrecht
Drug Marketing*
Nils Kessel
Université de Strasbourg
Opioids and Analgesics*
Marcia Meldrum
University of California, Los Angeles
Psychedelics*
Erika Dyck
University of Saskatchewan
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Growth of Clinical/Biomedical Research*
Joseph M. Gabriel
Florida State University
Gabriella Rivera

 

Global Health History

Chronic and Non-Communicable Diseases*
George Weisz
McGill University
Disease Eradication Programs*
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Population and Family Planning*
Nicole Bourbonnais
Geneva Graduate Institute
Primary Health Care*
Niels Brimnes
Aarhus Universitet
Religion and Global Health*
Walter Bruchhausen
Universität Bonn
The League of Nations Health Organization*
Tomoko Akami
Australian National University
The Rockefeller Foundation*
Ricardo dos Santos Batista
Universidade do Estado da Bahia
The World Bank and Global Health*
Reiko Kanazawa
Nagoya University
Tuberculosis*
Christoph Gradmann
Universitetet i Oslo
Vaccination*
Elena Conis
University of California, Berkeley

 

Historical Events

The History of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
Nils Hansson
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

 

Medical Specialties

Military Medicine*
Sarah Handley-Cousins
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

 

Nursing

Nursing Education*
Dominique Tobbell
University of Virginia
Religion and Nursing*
Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham
Trinity Western University
Wartime and Military Nursing*
Katrin Schultheiss
George Washington University

 

Psychiatry

Historiographical Themes in the History of Psychiatry*
Benoît Majerus
Université du Luxembourg
Psychiatric Experiences*
Ketil Slagstad
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Psychiatry and Public Order*
Anastassiya Schacht
Universität Heidelberg
Psychiatry and War*
Joelle M. Abi-Rached
American University of Beirut
Psychiatry in the Long Nineteenth Century*
Eric J. Engstrom
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

Surgery

Abdominal Surgery*
Sally Frampton
University of Oxford
Anesthesia*
Stephanie Snow
University of Manchester
Children and Surgery*
Salim Al-Gailani
University of Cambridge
Clinical Trials in Surgery*
David S. Jones
Harvard University
Emotions and Surgery*
Michael Brown
Lancaster University
Gender and Surgery*
Claire Brock
University of Leicester
Neurosurgery*
Delia Gavrus
University of Winnipeg
Premodern (Pre-1800) Surgery*
Cynthia Klestinec
Miami University
Gideon Manning
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Psychosurgery*
Jesper Vaczy Kragh
Syddansk Universitet
The Surgical Profession*
Peter Kernahan
University of Minnesota
Transplant Surgery and Organ Transplantation*
Hyung Wook Park
Nanyang Technological University

 

Women

Reproduction*
Lara Freidenfelds

 

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