Full Description
This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study.
From debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the Medical Mirror, to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals, the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals - far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses - were also read by the general public. Thus, the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine, but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodical culture more broadly.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Media History.
Contents
Introduction: Reading Medicine and Health in Periodicals
Sally Frampton and Jennifer Wallis
1. The 'Medical-Women Question' and the Multivocality of the Victorian Medical Press, 1869-1900
Alison Moulds
2. Shaping Doctors and Society: The Portuguese Medical Press (1880-1926)
Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota and Isabel Amaral
3. Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century Journals
Beatriz Pichel
4. 'Bicycle-Face' and 'Lawn Tennis' Girls: Debating girls' health in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century British periodicals
Hilary Marland
5. Using Digitised Medical Journals in a Cross European Project on Addiction History
Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge
