Between paternalism and illegality: a longitudinal analysis of the role and condition of manual scavengers in India
(2022)
Journal Article
Saldanha, S., Kirchhelle, C., Webster, E., Vanderslott, S., & Vaz, M. (2022). Between paternalism and illegality: a longitudinal analysis of the role and condition of manual scavengers in India. BMJ Global Health, 7(7), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008733
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A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London. Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. vi+282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. US$45.00 (cloth). (2022)
Journal Article
Webster, E. (2022). A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London. Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. vi+282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. US$45.00 (cloth). Environmental History, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1086/721330
Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960 (2022)
Journal Article
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A., & Vander Hulst, R. (2022). Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960. Journal of Religious History, 46(3), 439-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12871This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English-language normative texts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Behavioural norms for... Read More about Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960.
Opinion: Why moving Dublin Port would be bad for the city (2022)
Other
Webster, E. (2022). Opinion: Why moving Dublin Port would be bad for the city
Plague, Displacement, and Ecological Disruption in Bombay, 1896 (2021)
Book Chapter
Webster, E. (2021). Plague, Displacement, and Ecological Disruption in Bombay, 1896. In M. Gharipour, & C. DeClerq (Eds.), Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities. Intellect Press
Interview: Plague in Bombay and Urban Ecology with Emily Webster (2021)
Digital Artefact
Webster, E. (2021). Interview: Plague in Bombay and Urban Ecology with Emily Webster. [[Media unknown]]
A Short History of British Medical Ethics (2021)
Book
Maehle, A. (2021). A Short History of British Medical Ethics. Ockham Publishing
Tubercular landscape: land use change and Mycobacterium in Melbourne, Australia, 1837–1900 (2020)
Journal Article
Webster, E. (2020). Tubercular landscape: land use change and Mycobacterium in Melbourne, Australia, 1837–1900. Journal of Historical Geography, 67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.10.009
Interview: Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History (2020)
Digital Artefact
Webster, E. (2020). Interview: Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History. [[Media unknown]]
Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914 (2018)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2020). Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky072Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care... Read More about Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914.
A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900 (2017)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2017). A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 71(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0006In the late nineteenth century, German-speaking physicians and psychiatrists intensely debated the benefits and risks of treatment by hypnotic suggestion. While practitioners of the method sought to provide convincing evidence for its therapeutic eff... Read More about A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900.
Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany (2016)
Book
Maehle, A. (2016). Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. The University of Chicago Press
From the fear of conception to the management of sex. Birth control in West German sex education material, c. 1945-1980 (2016)
Book Chapter
Sauerteig, L. D. (2016). From the fear of conception to the management of sex. Birth control in West German sex education material, c. 1945-1980. In L. Niethammer, & S. Satjukow (Eds.), " Wenn die Chemie stimmt ..." : Geschlechterbeziehungen und Geburtenkontrolle im Zeitalter der "Pille". = Gender relations and birth control in the age of the "Pill" (211-244). Wallstein Verlag
Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court (2015)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2015). Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court. Journal of medical law and ethics, 3(1-2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.7590/221354015x14319325750151An important problem for medical confidentiality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the question if doctors could be required to give evidence in court about their patients’ condition. On the one hand, knowledge that personal informa... Read More about Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court.
The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis (2014)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2014). The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis. History of Psychiatry, 25(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x13500596The Berlin physician Albert Moll (1862–1939) was an advocate of hypnotic suggestion therapy and a prolific contributor to the medical, legal and public discussions on hypnotism from the 1880s to the 1920s. While his work in other areas, such as sexol... Read More about The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis.
Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark (2013)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2013). Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106(4), 150-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076813482256From the late seventeenth century onwards, in vitro and animal experimentation, chemical tests and microscopical observation, and the analysis of single case histories were used to understand the pharmacology and therapeutic properties of the Peruvia... Read More about Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark.
'God's Ethicist': Albert Moll and His Medical Ethics in Theory and Practice (2012)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2012). 'God's Ethicist': Albert Moll and His Medical Ethics in Theory and Practice. Medical History, 56(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2011.34
Loss of Innocence: Albert Moll, Sigmund Freud and the Invention of Childhood Sexuality around 1900 (2012)
Journal Article
Sauerteig, L. (2012). Loss of Innocence: Albert Moll, Sigmund Freud and the Invention of Childhood Sexuality around 1900. Medical History, 56(Special issue 2), 156-183. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2011.31This paper analyses how, prior to the work of Sigmund Freud, an understanding of infant and childhood sexuality emerged during the nineteenth century. Key contributors to the debate were Albert Moll, Max Dessoir and others, as fin-de-siècle artists a... Read More about Loss of Innocence: Albert Moll, Sigmund Freud and the Invention of Childhood Sexuality around 1900.
Medical Ethics and the Law (2011)
Book Chapter
Maehle, A. (2011). Medical Ethics and the Law. In M. Jackson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (543-560). Oxford University Press
Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the stem cell concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2011)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2011). Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the stem cell concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 65(4), 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2011.0023