Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Twentieth-Century Great Britain and North America

Health and society in twentieth-century Britain

Well-chosen illustrations and excerpts from sources including Richard Lower, Thomas Willis, John Mayow, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Bernoulli, Hermann Boerhaave and Albrecht von Haller, aptly evidence the immediate impact of Stensen's theory and the variety of misinterpretations which beset it over the ensuing years. Kardel does not consider the possibility that Stensen may have contribu...

Social hygiene in twentieth-century Britain

example. Moreover, the astringent empiricism of the Parisian clinical school and the "analytic" approach of Pinel could also, with some plausibility, be advanced as contenders for the title of "medicine of the Revolution". What gives Braunstein's claim greater weight is the recognition of the essentially polemical nature of Brousssais' system, which developed out of a series ofencounters with o...

"Soldier's heart": the redefinition of heart disease and specialty formation in early twentieth-century Great Britain.

Studies of the social construction of diseases have clearly demonstrated how "non-medical" factors such as race, class, and gender are instrumental in their definition. However, less attention has been paid to how changing concepts of disease have interacted with political, military, and economic forces in the shaping of medical specialities. In this paper, I shall discuss how the disorder call...

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Mustaches and masculine codes in early twentieth-century America.

The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of twentieth-century masculinity by considering the social function of facial hair. The management of facial hair has always been a medium of gendered body language, and as such has elicited a nearly continuous private and public conversation about manliness. Careful attention to this conversation, and to trends in facial hairstyles, il...