history of medicine

Although I am a layman of history of medicine, I recently surfed a related journal, Social History of Medicine. Here are some articles interested me most.

Pierre-Yves Donzé, "Studies abroad by Japanese doctors: A prosopographic analysis of the nameless practitioners, 1862-1912," Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2010, pp. 244-260. Between 1862 and 1912, no fewer than 763 Japanese doctors trained abroad in western universities. China context?

M. Cristina Zaccarini, "Modern medicine in twentieth-century Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian and Sichuan: Competition, negotiation and cooperation," Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2010, pp. 338-355. China Christian Advocate, Chinese Medical Journal, and Chinese Recorder.

Mark Emmanuel, "Viewspapers: The Malay press of the 1930s," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2010, pp. 1-20. a revisionist contribution to the bourgeois public sphere in Colonial Malaya.

Ryan Johnson, "Colonial mission and imperial tropical medicine: Livingstone College, London, 1893-1914," Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2010, pp. 549-66. The Scot physicians Patrick Manson (1844-1922) and James Cantlie (1851-1926) were among the earliest lecturers.

Willemjin Ruberg, "The letter as medicine: Studying health and illness in Dutch daily correspondence, 1770-1850," Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2010, pp. 492-508. letter writing as social practice approach. It should be noted that new approaches often stereotyped their predecessors to emphasise their own innovative aspects. From the social history of medicine in the 1970s against a traditional medical history which concentrated on the celebrated of great doctors and their discoveries and instead studied patients as well as the daily practices of medicine to the rise of the cultural history of medicine, in the 1990s, with an increasing interest in the social construction of disease and the body, which focused on textual and discursive analysis and examined the making of meaning, studying language, power and the construction of medical categories. Ruberg also draws my attention to Frank Huisman and JohnHarley Warner (eds.)'s Locating Medical History: the stories and their meanings(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) and Willem de Blécourt and Cornelie Usborne (eds.),Cultural approaches to the history of medicine : mediating medicine in early modern and modern Europe (New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).