Histories of Medicine in the Household: Recovering Practice and ‘Reception’

Bivins, Roberta E.; Marland, Hilary; Tomes, Nancy

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“…5 In their introduction on histories of medicine in the household, Bivins, Marland and Tomes assert 'domestic spaces remained key sites of health and curing'. 6 The imprint of masculine identity was not limited to curative spaces; this article argues that domestic spaces, whether they were created in an institutional or traditional domestic settings were fundamental for understanding masculinity. Home was considered the best place for recovery, as well as comfort and care, it was a site for integration and self-sufficiency, which were fundamental to the full rehabilitation of the disabled ex-serviceman.…”

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“Homes away from Home” and “Happy Prisoners”: Disabled Veterans, Space, and Masculinity in Britain, 1944–19501

Anderson¹

2020

Journal of Social History

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This article examines the changing nature of home for disabled ex-servicemen in the Second World War. It explores the function of institutional and domestic space in the restoration of traditional male roles. Masculine activities were encouraged in the long-stay institution, as men attempted to overcome their disability and be found suitable to resume a place in a traditional domestic home. Owing to war damage, finding housing was particularly challenging for disabled men, but a combination of the influence of the British Legion, donations from the public, and their preference to memorialize the war through the building of homes increased the possibility of living in a traditional domestic space. The building, alteration, and occupation of homes reinforced certain modes of behavior and expectations of disabled veterans, cementing the central, traditional role of men in postwar Britain. Importantly, freedom from institutional living came through traditional relationships with women and the production of children. This analysis of the home in its many configurations offers insight into disabled ex-servicemen, demonstrating that the institutional and domestic spaces that constitute home are as important in understanding masculinity as other traditionally gendered spaces such as the workplace.

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“Homes away from Home” and “Happy Prisoners”: Disabled Veterans, Space, and Masculinity in Britain, 1944–19501

Anderson¹

2020

Journal of Social History

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“…I also see this chapter as a contribution to the new interest in 'Medicine in the Household', which was the subject of a special issue of Social History of Medicine in 2016 in which its editors explored more imaginatively what counted as 'medical' in history. 13 There are also possible links to work on the 'patient-consumer'. Alex Mold's review of the uses of the term in Britain shows that it has been framed, no doubt because of the NHS, largely in terms of consuming state medical services.…”

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The non-patient’s view

Worboys¹

2021

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948

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Roy Porter's article 'The Patient's View' stimulated a major change in medical history. In many ways it defined the new social history of medicine, which since the 1970s had been challenging doctorcentred histories and opening new approaches and topics. Many historians took up Porter's invitation to rewrite medicine's past 'from below', but I argue in this chapter that they have not been radical enough and have missed one of his major challenges. The overlooked item is the last on his agenda for future research:We should stop seeing the doctor as the agent of primary care. People took care before they took physick. What we habitually call primary care is in fact secondary care, once the sufferer has become a patient, [and] has entered the medical arena. 1 Porter is pointing to the importance of self-diagnosis and selftreatment -the beliefs, behaviours and actions of sick people who did not go to the doctor and remained 'non-patients'. In time and if symptoms persisted, they might have seen a medical practitioner. Though not addressed in this chapter, an important question therefore is what it took, in terms of beliefs, symptoms, opportunities and resources, for a person to move from being a 'non-patient' to a patient. This issue has become an important policy issue in the early twenty-first century, in terms of demand on health services.Exploring this new area of ignorance requires historians to explore familiar sources in new ways and to find new sources, many of which have previously been regarded as non-medical. Historians of

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“…. 심장병, 비만, 치매, 당뇨, 피로 등 의 만성질환에 대한 연구도 다수 등장했다 (Timmermann, 2012;Parr, 2014;Tuchman, 2015;Rasmussen, 2018;Blayney, 2019;Fallon, 2019 (Gentilcore, 2016;Savelli, 2012;Chavigny, 2014;Black, 2017;Mills and Adderley, 2017;Herzberg, 2017;Edman, 2020;Karibo, 2020 (Martyr, 2011;Mauger, 2012;Loughran, 2012;Wright, Jacklin, Themeles, 2013;Slijkhuis and Oosterhuis, 2014;Cox and Marland, 2015;Blair, 2016;Parhi and Pietikainen, 2017;Millard, 2017;Cox and Marland, 2018;Adams, 2019;Wake, 2019;Ramos, 2019;Nuriddin, 2019;Dwyer, 2019;Schöhl and Hess, 2019;Marland, 2019;Tomes and Jones, 2019;Tomes, 2020 했다(Bavins, Marland, and Tomes, 2016;Van Andel, 2016;Cavallo, 2016;Baschin, 2016;Jones, 2016; (Newton, 2011;Lloyd, 2012;Geist, 2012;Carstirs, 2014;…”

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A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

Lee

2020

Korean J Med Hist

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In recent decades, the history of medicine has seen additional experimentation with the changing understanding of the relationship between medicine and society, especially with the emergence of a knowledge-and information-based society and globalization. Furthermore, historians have attempted to establish the value of the history of medicine in response to changing perceptions of medicine and history in the twenty-first century. Their efforts have vitalized the field of medical history by treating it as a useful lens for observing medicine's past as well as formulating critical questions about its present.

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Histories of Medicine in the Household: Recovering Practice and ‘Reception’

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“Homes away from Home” and “Happy Prisoners”: Disabled Veterans, Space, and Masculinity in Britain, 1944–19501

“Homes away from Home” and “Happy Prisoners”: Disabled Veterans, Space, and Masculinity in Britain, 1944–19501

The non-patient’s view

A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

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