 | 2025 Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946–54) [Supported]Author(s): Benoit Pouget |
| 2024 Medical Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Mas Sardjito and his work [Supported]Author(s): vivek neelakantan |
| 2024 Beyond Advocay: Human Health, the Environment, and Tradeoff Ethics [Supported]Author(s): Charles Dupras,Sandy Tubeuf By theme: Bioethics - Medical ethics |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): vivek neelakantan On 8 August 1958, at the closing reception of the First Indonesian Science Conference in Malang, President Soekarno highlighted the significance of applied sciences to nation-building. |
| 2024 Nothing about us without us: Advocacy and engagement in genetic medicine [Supported]Author(s): Karine Dube,Khadidja Abdallah The development of new genetic medicines to treat sickle cell disease highlights the need for greater collaboration between researchers and people with lived experiences. Drawing on the adage “Nothing about us, without us,” we call for increased investments in community advocacy and engagement. |
 | 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Emmanuel Delille,Samuel Lézé |
 | 2024 The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia Perspectives from the Cold War to COVID-19 [Supported]Author(s): vivek neelakantan |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): vivek neelakantan |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Karine Dube
Brahm Coler 1, Gordon Honerkamp Smith 2, Anish K Arora 3 4 5, Adam Wells 1, Stephanie Solso 6, Cheryl Dullano 6, Susanna Concha-Garcia 6 7, Eddie Hill 2, Patricia K Riggs 2, Anastasia Korolkova 2, Robert Deiss 2, Davey Smith 2 6, Erin E Sundermann 8, Sara Gianella 2, Antoine Chaillon 2, Karine Dubé 2 |
| 2024 Responsibility for Addiction: Risk, Value, and Reasonable Foreseeability [Supported]Author(s): Federico Burdman |
| 2024 Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare [Supported]Author(s): |
| 2024 Remembering Socrates Litsios: Reflections on the changing agenda of global health [Supported]Author(s): vivek neelakantan |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Karine Dube |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Els van Wijngaarden |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Xiaojie Li |
| 2024 Advancing Children’s Participation Rights in Healthcare Through Play [Supported]Author(s): Aleksandra Głos |
 | 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Margaret Battin |
| 2024 Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend: Obstacles to the Control of Urban Smoke, 1869–1943 [Supported]Author(s): Xiaojie Li, DAVID S. JONES As Shanghai industrialised, its Chinese and European residents suffered the scourge of coal-powered cities: smoke. Air pollution became a multi-sensory reality. Residents could see, smell, feel and taste the smoke that shrouded the city. Inspired by anthropologists and historians of the senses, we mined Chinese- and English-language sources to document the emergence of experiences of air pollution in Shanghai. Concerns began earlier than other historians have appreciated. The vigorous complaints from all parts of Shanghai society illuminate how the city’s governments attempted to respond to the crisis and mitigate the toxic consequences of industrialisation. We found many obstacles to the success of the governments’ approaches. While other scholars have emphasised Shanghai’s fractured governance, we also found evidence of financial conflicts of interest, industry obfuscation and anti-Chinese racism. Our work expands the understanding of the history of air pollution in China and offers a model that can be used to extend global histories of air pollution beyond their traditional focus on Europe and North America. |
| 2024 [Supported] Author(s): Jaimie Morse This article contributes to historiographies of forensic medicine by examining late twentieth-century women’s rights activism for new clinical standards on medical forensic exams for sexual assault (commonly known as “rape kits”). I argue that three features of these exams distinguish new standards of care from older practices in forensic medicine: the addition of specialized medical care to evidence-collection routines; attention to psychological trauma; and the creation of specific protocols to standardize, professionalize, and guide routine administration of the exam. To illustrate this shift, I follow “rape kit” protocols that emerged within nursing in the United States beginning in the 1970s, to their uptake and codification in international guidelines, to more recent attempts to adapt them for use in conflict zones. New clinical guidelines transformed the “rape kit” into an assemblage of instruments, medical routines, and new ways of thinking about sexual assault. The rape kit assemblage simultaneously became a traveling technology of care and a technology of governance and law. In practice, however, as new standards were implemented more widely, tensions between medical care and evidence collection emerged. At the intersection of law and medicine, distinct logics and assumptions came together, positioning not only medical and legal professionals, but also patients, in the unenviable liminal zone in which care and justice met and produced friction. This comes across clearly from an analysis of their use in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where mass rape had taken place. In this context, political turmoil and war conditioned the delivery of health care and, by extension, the liminal zone between medicine and law that standards for post-rape care occupy. Investigations of mass rape threatened to contravene confidentiality of medical records and expose health workers and patients to retaliation from suspects, renewing controversies surrounding the feasibility of aligning the institutional logics of medicine and law in this way. |
| 2024 Fractured Understandings of Leprosy in Bombay City, 1867–1933 [Supported]Author(s): vivek neelakantan Between 1867 and 1933, the understanding of leprosy within the colonial medical establishment in Bombay city was fractured on two issues: whether leprosy was contagious and whether individuals with leprosy should be segregated. This article explores how legislation paved the way for resolving these issues in Bombay between 1867 and 1933. Furthermore, the article seeks to problematize the notion of “diseased bodies” or “lepers” through legislation to protect healthy individuals from possible degeneration. Leprosy in Bombay reflected the anxieties of the city's business elite who were averse to accommodating patients from other parts of British India. In addition, the article studies leprosy and “lepers” by analyzing archival documents and public health reports within the context of Bombay city. |