Cover Image, Volume 58, Issue 1

MDH volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

A journal devoted to the history of the sciences and of health Published by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos is a quarterly journal that features original articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as approved by its Editorial Board and in ad hoc peer reviewers. Its departments include original articles and essays, research notes, doc...

MDH volume 58 Issue 4 Cover and Front matter

MDH volume 58 Issue 4 Cover and Back matter

http://journals.cambridge.org/bjh This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than...

MDH volume 58 Issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Reconstructing Harry: A Genealogical Study of a Colonial Family ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ the Grahamstown Asylum, 1888–1918 Lindy Wilbraham 166 ‘The Hospital was just like a Home’: Self, Service and the ‘McCord Hospital Family’ Vanessa Noble and Julie Parle 188 ‘The Trial the World is Watching’: The 1972 Prosecution of Derk Crichton and James Watts, Abortion, and the Regulation of the Medical Prof...

Editorial, Volume 8, Issue 1

A new vocabulary item has been added to English dictionaries: Covid-19. For linguists, the addition of a meaningful linguistic element to any language should change the whole language as, for T. S. Eliot, a new poem changes the whole literature of a nation. But let us see how seriously the addition of the vocabulary item Covid-19 might change the English language. According to Cambridge online ...