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"Festmachen": Männliche Zauberpraktiken Als Präventivmedicin, B. Ann Tlusty
"Festmachen": Männliche Zauberpraktiken Als Präventivmedicin, B. Ann Tlusty
Faculty Contributions to Books
This essay is part of a larger project examining martial magic – that is, masculine spells aimed at enlisting supernatural powers to become better fighters – as it was practiced by men in Germany between about 1500 and 1900. Here the focus is specifically on men who attempted to make themselves invulnerable using martial spells and blessings. Like many early modern magical practices, martial magic had religious overtones and often involved the abuse of sacred objects; at the same time, it drew heavily on ideas from the field of medicine.
Modernizing Midwifery: Managing Childbirth In Ontario And The British Isles, 1900–1950, Gwenith Cross
Modernizing Midwifery: Managing Childbirth In Ontario And The British Isles, 1900–1950, Gwenith Cross
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation considers the differences, as well as the similarities, between midwifery and childbirth practices in Ontario and in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Addressing the modernization of medical practices on either side of the Atlantic, the periodization of this project reflects the increasing concerns about maternal and infant morbidity and mortality alongside medical and political attempts to ensure the involvement of trained medical professionals during pregnancy and childbirth. In Britain, the establishment of the 1902 Midwives Act regulated midwifery so that only midwives approved by the Central Midwives’ Board were allowed to practice. British midwives …
Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy In The Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods
Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy In The Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation articulates the tendency of Victorian novels to make legible only the pregnant bodies of immodest characters who transgress gendered ideologies while the pregnant bodies of modest characters tend to go undescribed. Tracing the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth over the course of the long nineteenth century, my chapters demonstrate the function of moralizing narrative conventions in the representation of pregnancy in mid-Victorian novels, of a self-conscious use of free indirect diagnosis in high-Victorian fiction, and a shift at the fin-de-siècle from pregnancy as a signifier of morality to a symptom of unstable minds. The novels I read closely …
European Society For The History Of The Human Sciences (Eshhs), Conference 2014, Oulu (Finland), Paper: “Dangerous Passions. The Construction And Cultural And Social Impact Of The ‘Psychiatric’ Framework Of The Passions In France (1790-1830)”, July 22-25 (23th), 2014., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
Numerous excellent works have been written on the formation process of ‘psychiatry’ and its concomitant impact on society and culture at the end of the eighteenth century and in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, in particular with regard to France. From Gladys Swain to Dora Weiner, from Jacques Postel to Jan Goldstein, from Jackie Pigeaud to Juan Rigoli, the issue has been analysed in depth and from a variety of different perspectives. However, despite constantly and inevitably resurfacing in these studies, no particular attention has been paid to the passions and emotions drawn up by nascent psychiatry. …
Newcastle And Northumbria Universities, Conference “Fashionable Diseases. Medicine, Literature And Culture, Ca. 1660-1832", Paper: “On The End Of Fashionable Melancholy”, July 3-5 (4th), 2014., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
The paper analyze the crucial moment of rupture in the history of the definitions, descriptions and classifications of melancholy within the ambit of medicine that occurred between the end of the Eighteenth- and beginning of the Nineteenth-century, in particular in France. That is the point at which Philippe Pinel, absorbing the contributions of Seventeenth-century British psychiatry, proceeded to abandon both the humoral doctrine and the old Renaissance conception of the dual character – melancholy as a psycho-physiological illness and as a literary and philosophical mood. Pinel now locates melancholy only among forms of mental alienation. I will proceed with the …
American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer
American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer
Ellen S. More
This article surveys major trends in the history of women physicians in American medicine during the 20th century, noting especially factors that have elicited renewed and increasingly public attention during the past two decades. These include the challenges of achieving greater professional visibility while also balancing family and career, of sustaining women physicians' legacy of commitment to women's health and primary care medicine without reinforcing the traditional stereotype that these are the specialties "best suited" to women doctors, and of addressing the need for more ethnic and racial diversity in the medical profession. Other recent developments include the leveling off …
The Blackwell Medical Society And The Professionalization Of Women Physicians, Ellen S. More
The Blackwell Medical Society And The Professionalization Of Women Physicians, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
No abstract provided.
Changing The Face Of Medicine: One Historian's Experience As A Curator, Ellen S. More
Changing The Face Of Medicine: One Historian's Experience As A Curator, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
In the spring of 2001 during a meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Elizabeth Fee, Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), invited me to become the Visiting Curator for a new exhibition they intended to present on the history of women physicians. It was the first full-scale exhibition ever devoted to that subject by the NLM. After more than two years’ preparation, the exhibition, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” opened in April 2003 and continued on display at the NLM for more than two …
Death And Disease: Medical Issues In The Life And Writing Of Mary Shelley, Janae B. Haas
Death And Disease: Medical Issues In The Life And Writing Of Mary Shelley, Janae B. Haas
JaNae B. Haas
This presentation explores the general medical context from roughly 1750 to 1850 in Britain and to focus on Mary Shelley’s personal experience with health, healing, and death during her 53 year life from 1797-1851.
[Review] El Mestizaje Cultural Y La Medicina Novohispana Del Siglo Xvi. J.L. Fresquet Febrer, J.Mª López Piñero (Eds.) (1995), Enrique Wulff
[Review] El Mestizaje Cultural Y La Medicina Novohispana Del Siglo Xvi. J.L. Fresquet Febrer, J.Mª López Piñero (Eds.) (1995), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
Uwomj Volume 65, No 1, Winter 1995-96, Western University
Uwomj Volume 65, No 1, Winter 1995-96, Western University
University of Western Ontario Medical Journal
An interdisciplinary medical science publication, established in 1930.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Operations Upon Bones, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Operations Upon Bones, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Hemorrhage Or Loss Of Blood, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Hemorrhage Or Loss Of Blood, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - The Spleen, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - The Spleen, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 33. Diseases And Injuries Of The Lymphatics, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 33. Diseases And Injuries Of The Lymphatics, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 31. Diseases Of The Skin And Nails, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 31. Diseases Of The Skin And Nails, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 28. Diseases And Injuries Of The Rectum And Anus, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 28. Diseases And Injuries Of The Rectum And Anus, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 30. Burns And Scalds, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 30. Burns And Scalds, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - The Liver And Gall Bladder, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - The Liver And Gall Bladder, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 25. Surgery Of The Respiratory Organs, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 25. Surgery Of The Respiratory Organs, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 23. Diseases And Injuries Of The Head, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 23. Diseases And Injuries Of The Head, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 22. Diseases And Injuries Of Nerves, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 22. Diseases And Injuries Of Nerves, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 20. Diseases And Injuries Of Muscles, Tendons, And Bursae, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 20. Diseases And Injuries Of Muscles, Tendons, And Bursae, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Luxations Or Dislocations, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Luxations Or Dislocations, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Diseases Of The Joints, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Diseases Of The Joints, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Diseases Of The Bones, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Diseases Of The Bones, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Operations On The Vascular System, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Operations On The Vascular System, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Fractures, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 19. Diseases And Injuries Of The Bones And Joints - Fractures, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Heart And Pericardium, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 18. Diseases And Injuries Of The Heart And Vessels - Heart And Pericardium, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.
Modern Surgery - Chapter 17. Tumors, Or Morbid Growths, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery - Chapter 17. Tumors, Or Morbid Growths, John Chalmers Da Costa
Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa
No abstract provided.