The NHS Issue

Bivins, Roberta E. (2020) Commentary : serving the nation, serving the people : echoes of war in the early NHS. Medical Humanities, 46 (2). pp. 154-156. doi:10.1136/medhum-2019-011760Link opens in a new window ISSN 1468-215X.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2017) Picturing race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988. Twentieth Century British History, 28 (1). pp. 83-109. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hww059Link opens in a new window ISSN 0955-2359.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2020) Weighing on us all? Quantification and cultural responses to obesity in NHS Britain. History of Science, 58 (2). pp. 216-242. doi:10.1177/0073275319842965Link opens in a new window ISSN 0073-2753.

Crane, Jennifer (2018) ‘Save our NHS’ : activism, information-based expertise and the ‘new times’ of the 1980s. Contemporary British History, 33 (1). pp. 52-74. doi:10.1080/13619462.2018.1525299Link opens in a new window ISSN 1361-9462.

Crane,, Jennifer. ‘The NHS … Should not be Condemned to the History Books’: Public Engagement as a Method in Social Histories of MedicineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window,Social History of Medicine, 34 (3) (2021), pp. 1005-1027.

Crane, Jennifer (2018) Why the history of public consultation matters for contemporary health policy. Endeavour, 42 (1). pp. 9-16. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2018.01.001Link opens in a new window ISSN 0160-9327.

DeVane, Ed (2021) Pilgrim’s progress : the landscape of the NHS hospital, 1948–70. Twentieth Century British History, 32 (4). pp. 534-552. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwab016Link opens in a new window ISSN 0955-2359.

Gosling, George. 'Gender, money and professional identity: medical social work and the coming of the British National Health Service',Women's History Review27(2):310-328.

Saunders, Jack. ‘Emotions, social practices and the changing composition of class, race and gender in the National Health Service, 1970-79’,History Workshop Journal, 88 (Autumn 2019), 204-228.

Sirrs, Christopher (2022) Taking action against medical accidents : a brief history of AvMA and clinical risk management in the NHS. Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, 27 (6). pp. 248-255. doi:10.1177/25160435221135120Link opens in a new window ISSN 2516-0435.

Sirrs, Christopher (2024) The moment of patient safety : iatrogenic injury, clinical error, and cultures of healthcare in the NHS. Social History of Medicine, 37 (1). pp. 93-115. doi:10.1093/shm/hkad089Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

The Prisons and Confinement Issue

Bennett, Rachel (2021) Bad for the health of the body, worse for the health of the mind : female responses to imprisonment in England, 1853-1869. Social History of Medicine, 34 (2). pp. 532-552. hkz066. doi:10.1093/shm/hkz066Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Charleroy, Margaret Lynn and Marland, Hilary (2016) Prisoners of solitude : bringing history to bear on prison health policy. Endeavour, 40 (3). pp. 141-147. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.07.001Link opens in a new window ISSN 0160-9327.

Cox, Catherine and Marland, Hilary (2018) Broken minds and beaten bodies : cultures of harm and the management of mental illness in mid- to late nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons. Social History of Medicine . hky038. doi:10.1093/shm/hky038Link opens in a new window ISSN 1477-4666.

Cox, Catherine and Marland, Hilary (2018) ‘He must die or go mad in this place’ : prisoners, insanity and the Pentonville model prison experiment, 1842-1852. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 92 (1). pp. 78-109. doi:10.1353/bhm.2018.0004Link opens in a new window ISSN 0007-5140.

Cox, Catherine and Marland, Hilary (2019) ‘Unfit for reform or punishment’ : mental disorder and discipline in Liverpool borough gaol in the late nineteenth century. Social History, 44 (2). pp. 173-201. doi:10.1080/03071022.2019.1579977Link opens in a new window ISSN 0307-1022.

Duvall, Nicholas (2018) 'From defensive paranoia to … openness to outside scrutiny' : prison medical officers in England and Wales, 1979-86. Medical History, 62 (1). pp. 112-131. doi:10.1017/mdh.2017.77Link opens in a new window ISSN 0025-7273.

Duvall, Nicholas (2017) 'If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?' : the medico-legal investigation of gunshot wounds in a 1927 Scottish murder trial. Social History of Medicine, 30 (2). pp. 367-388. doi:10.1093/shm/hkw066Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Marland, Hilary (2019) 'Close confinement tells very much upon a man' : prison memoirs, insanity and the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prison. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 74 (3). pp. 267-291. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrz027Link opens in a new window ISSN 0022-5045.

The Global and (Post)Colonial Issue

Bivins, Roberta E. (2013) Coming 'home' to (post)Colonial medicine : treating tropical bodies in Post-War Britain. Social History of Medicine, 26 (1). pp. 1-20. doi:10.1093/shm/hks058Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2021) ‘Suspect’ screening : the limits of Britain’s medicalised borders, 1962–1981. In: Trubeta, Sevasti and Promitzer, Christian and Weindling, Paul, (eds.) Medicalising borders : selection, containment and quarantine since 1800. Rethinking borders . Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526154668

Crane, Jennifer (2015) ‘The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’ : the battered child syndrome in post-war Britain and America. Social History of Medicine, 28 (4). pp. 767-788. doi:10.1093/shm/hkv040Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Garnett, Emma and Hodges, Sarah (2020) The ghost in the data : evidence gaps and the problem of fake drugs in global health research. Global Public Health, 15 (8). 1103-1118 . doi:10.1080/17441692.2020.1744678Link opens in a new window ISSN 1744-1692.

Jackson, Kyle, ‘Hearing Images, Tasting Pictures: Making Sense of Christian Mission Photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920)’ in Maja Kominko (ed), From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015), 445-485.

Moore, Martin D., Harnessing the Power of Difference: Colonialism and British Chronic Disease Research, 1940–1975, Social History of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 384–404, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv130

Schmittdiel, Julie A., Dyer, Wendy T., Marshall, Cassondra J. and Bivins, Roberta E. (2018) Using neighborhood-level census data to predict diabetes progression in patients with laboratory-defined prediabetes. The Permanente Journal, 22 . 18-096. doi:10.7812/TPP/18-096Link opens in a new window ISSN 1552-5767

Shaw, Claire (2022) Take care of your hearing! Fighting deafness in the Stalinist 1930s. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 19 (2). pp. 259-280. doi:10.14765/zzf.dok-2438Link opens in a new window ISSN 1612-6033.

Sirrs, Christopher (2023) Fluid fakes, contested counterfeits : The World Health Organisation’s engagement with fake drugs, 1948–2017. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 10 (3). pp. 1-29. doi:10.17157/mat.10.3.7234Link opens in a new window ISSN 2405-691X.

Stein, Claudia (2011) The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany. Medical History, Vol.55 (No.3). pp. 331-337. ISSN 0025-7273.

Stein, Claudia and Cooter, Roger (2011) Visual objects and universal meanings : AIDS posters and the politics of globalisation and history. Medical History, Vol.55 (No.1). pp. 85-108. doi:10.1017/S0025727300006062Link opens in a new window ISSN 0025-7273.

The Childbirth, Children, and Parenting Issue

Burchell, Andrew (2021) At the margins of the medical? Educational psychology, child guidance and therapy in provincial England, c.1945-1974. Social History of Medicine, 34 (1). pp. 70-93. hkz097. doi:10.1093/shm/hkz097Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Burchell, Andrew (2018) In loco parentis, corporal punishment and the moral economy of discipline in English schools, 1945–1986. Cultural and Social History, 15 (4). pp. 551-570. doi:10.1080/14780038.2018.1518562Link opens in a new window ISSN 1478-0038.

Crane, Jennifer (2015) Painful times : the emergence and campaigning of parents against injustice in 1980s Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 26 (3). pp. 450-476. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwv024Link opens in a new window ISSN 0955-2359.

Creed, Fabiola (2024) Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain. Women's History Review . doi:10.1080/09612025.2024.2327895Link opens in a new window ISSN 0961-2025.

Davis, Angela (2016) I want them to learn about Israel and the holidays : Jewish Israeli mothers in early-twenty-first-century Britain. Religion and Gender, 6 (1). pp. 80-94. doi:10.18352/rg.10132Link opens in a new window ISSN 2589-8051.

Davis, Angela (2014) Wartime women giving birth : narratives of pregnancy and childbirth, Britain c. 1939–1960. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C : Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Volume 47 . pp. 257-266. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.11.007Link opens in a new window ISSN 1369-8486.

Davis, Angela and King, Laura (2018), Gendered Perspectives on Men's Changing Familial Roles in Postwar England, c.1950–1990. Gender & History, 30: 70-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12333

King, Laura, Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Men’s Presence at Childbirth in Britain c.1940s–2000s, Social History of Medicine, Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 389–407, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkw057

Marland, Hilary (2024) "Drowned in a sea of inhumanity" : natural childbirth, postnatal depression and the National Childbirth Trust, 1956-1980s. Social History of Medicine, 37 (1). pp. 69-92. doi:10.1093/shm/hkad083Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

The Modern Britain Issue

Bivins, Roberta E., Tierney, Stephanie and Seers, Kate (2017) Compassionate care : not easy, not free, not only nurses. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26 . pp. 1023-1026. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007005Link opens in a new window ISSN 2044-5423.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2022) Forgone, not forgotten : DNA fingerprinting, migration control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project. Science, Technology and Human Values . doi:10.1177/01622439221139877Link opens in a new window ISSN 0162-2439.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2013) Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982. Medical Humanities, Volume 40 (Number 1). pp. 3-10. doi:10.1136/medhum-2013-010400Link opens in a new window ISSN 1468-215X.

Bivins, Roberta E. (2023) Pilot programmes and postcolonial pivots : pioneering 'DNA Fingerprinting' on Britain's borders. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 65 (2). pp. 346-371. doi:10.1017/S0010417522000494Link opens in a new window ISSN 0010-4175.

Bivins, Roberta E. and Marland, Hilary (2016) Weighting for health : management, measurement and self-surveillance in the modern household. Social History of Medicine, 29 (4). pp. 757-780. doi:10.1093/shm/hkw015Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Burchell, Andrew and Thomson, Mathew (2022) Composing well-being : mental health and the Mass Observation Project in twentieth-century. Britain Social History of Medicine, 35 (2). pp. 444-472. doi:10.1093/shm/hkab104Link opens in a new window

Creed, Fabiola (2022) From ‘immoral’ users to ‘sunbed addicts’ : the media–medical pathologising of working-class consumers and young women in late twentieth-century England. Social History of Medicine, 35 (3). pp. 770-792. doi:10.1093/shm/hkac012Link opens in a new window ISSN 1477-4666.

Elizabeth, H. J. (2023). ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis', Contemporary British History,37 (3), 309–338. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016

Ellin, Dan, ‘A ‘Lack of Moral Fibre’ in Royal Air Force Bomber Command and Popular Culture’, British Journal for Military History, 6.3 (2020), pp. 42-65. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v6i3.1425

Hand, Jane (2017) Marketing health education : advertising margarine and visualising health in Britain from 1964–c.2000. Contemporary British History, 31 (4). pp. 477-500. doi:10.1080/13619462.2017.1305898Link opens in a new window ISSN 1361-9462.

Jones, Claire L. ‘Monty, Bring the Blood Can!’ Pulling Teeth in Working-Class Lancashire, 1900–48, Modern British History, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 223–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae036

Millward, Gareth (2017) A disability act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British government’s response to the Pertussis vaccine scare. Social History of Medicine, 30 (2). pp. 429-447. doi:10.1093/shm/hkv140Link opens in a new window ISSN 0951-631X.

Moore, Martin D. Food As Medicine: Diet, Diabetes Management, and the Patient in Twentieth Century Britain, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 150–167, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jry008

Smith, Elise (2018) 'Cleanse or die' : naval hygiene in the age of steam. Medical History, 62 (2). pp. 177-198. doi:10.1017/mdh.2018.3Link opens in a new window ISSN 0025-7273.

Tierney, Stephanie, Bivins, Roberta E. and Seers, Kate (2019) Compassion in nursing : solution or stereotype? Nursing Inquiry, 26 (1). e12271. doi:10.1111/nin.12271Link opens in a new window ISSN 1320-7881.