31 Episodes

  1. History of Medicine #25: Race – a history of a bad idea

    Published: 13/04/2018
  2. History of Medicine #24: Suitable for Parenthood: The Eugenics of Reproductive Health in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

    Published: 11/12/2012
  3. History of Medicine #23: Spinsters and Lesbians as Spiritual Mothers of the British Race

    Published: 27/11/2012
  4. History of Medicine #22: Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane)’s Musing on Reproduction, Breeding, Feminism, Socialism and Eugenics from the 1920s to the 1970s

    Published: 13/11/2012
  5. History of Medicine #21: Women, the Family and Eugenics in Nazi Germany

    Published: 30/10/2012
  6. History of Medicine #20: Eugenics and Maternalism during the Century of Woman: Trends in Eastern Europe

    Published: 16/10/2012
  7. History of Medicine #19: Eugeni-fascist Vitalism, Racial Prepotency, and Maternal Health in Interwar Italy

    Published: 02/10/2012
  8. History of Medicine #18: Making experts in the periphery: Toxicology in nineteenth-century Spain

    Published: 24/04/2012
  9. History of Medicine #17: Place Identity and Healthy Cities

    Published: 17/04/2012
  10. History of Medicine #16: A History of Morphological Evolution: From Darwin to Lewis and beyond

    Published: 27/03/2012
  11. History of Medicine #14: From Deficiency to Difficulty: Three historical phases of constructing learning disability since 1913

    Published: 07/02/2012
  12. History of Medicine #15: International or global?: The pharmaceutical industry 1950–2010

    Published: 07/02/2012
  13. History of Medicine #9: A Case Study in Mid Twentieth-Century “Charitable” Psychiatry

    Published: 01/07/2011
  14. History of Medicine #8: Child Welfare and Mental Hygiene in Greece (1910-1940)

    Published: 30/06/2011
  15. History of Medicine #7: Cleanliness is next to Godliness: The Problem of Plague in Early Modern Venice

    Published: 27/06/2011
  16. History of Medicine #6: Safety first! Individuals, Voluntary Organisations, and the British State in Twentieth-Century Accident Prevention

    Published: 24/06/2011
  17. History of Medicine #5: 'The Itch': The Strange Story of Skin Disease and Prejudice in the Eighteenth Century

    Published: 23/06/2011
  18. History of Medicine #4: The Experimental Subject's Experience in Non-therapeutic Clinical Studies

    Published: 01/12/2010
  19. History of Medicine #3: Between experimental evidence, statistical trial and preventive care the changing tides of BCG evaluation with human beings, 1921-1980

    Published: 16/11/2010
  20. History of Medicine #2: Controlled Trials Before Randomization

    Published: 19/10/2010

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