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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)
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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)
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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/10.1111/1467-9809.12871

This 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.

Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914 (2018)
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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/hky072

Traditional 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)
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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.2017.0006

In 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.

Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court (2015)
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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/10.7590/221354015x14319325750151

An 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)
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Maehle, A. (2014). The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis. History of Psychiatry, 25(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x13500596

The 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)
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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/10.1177/0141076813482256

From 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.

Loss of Innocence: Albert Moll, Sigmund Freud and the Invention of Childhood Sexuality around 1900 (2012)
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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.2011.31

This 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.

'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009 (2010)
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Maehle, A. (2010). 'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009. Medical Humanities, 36(2), 84-87. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2010.004655

In 2009 the German media featured the so-called ‘patient trade’ scandal. Offending against the rules of the professional code for German doctors, some medical practitioners had accepted bonus payments from specific hospitals for referring patients to... Read More about 'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009.

Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison (2010)
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Maehle, A., & Pranghofer, S. (2010). Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison. Medizinhistorisches Journal, 45(2), 189-221

Professional secrecy of doctors became an issue of considerable medico-legal and political debate in the late ineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both Germany and England, although the legal preconditions for this debate were quite different i... Read More about Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison.

A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept (2009)
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Maehle, A. (2009). A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept. Endeavour, 33(4), 134-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.09.001

In present-day pharmacology and medicine, it is usually taken for granted that cells contain a host of highly specific receptors. These are defined as proteins on or within the cell that bind with specificity to particular drugs, chemical messenger s... Read More about A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept.

"It could be seen more clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans": The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy (2009)
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Pranghofer, S. (2009). "It could be seen more clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans": The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy. Medical History, 53(4), 561-586

In 2005 Japanese neurosurgeons reported the case of a carotid rete mirabile in a 47-year-old male stroke patient. They documented their observation with MRI scans which represented dark ramifications before a light background and described the struct... Read More about "It could be seen more clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans": The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy.

Junge oder Mädchen - Frau oder Mann? Die Herstellung visueller Selbstverständlichkeiten in der Sexualaufklärung im 20. Jahrhundert [Boy or Girl - Woman or Man? The Heterosexual Body and the Making of Visual Self-Evidence in Twentieth Century Sex Education] (2008)
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Sauerteig, L. (2008). Junge oder Mädchen - Frau oder Mann? Die Herstellung visueller Selbstverständlichkeiten in der Sexualaufklärung im 20. Jahrhundert [Boy or Girl - Woman or Man? The Heterosexual Body and the Making of Visual Self-Evidence in Twentieth Century Sex Education]. Werkstatt Geschichte, 47, 40-60

This paper analyses the ways in which twentieth century sex education material constructed gender and the heterosexual body. Over the course of the century, representations of gender in such material changed fundamentally. In the first half of the ce... Read More about Junge oder Mädchen - Frau oder Mann? Die Herstellung visueller Selbstverständlichkeiten in der Sexualaufklärung im 20. Jahrhundert [Boy or Girl - Woman or Man? The Heterosexual Body and the Making of Visual Self-Evidence in Twentieth Century Sex Education].

Does bigger mean better? British perspectives on American cancer treatment and research, 1948 (2007)
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Toon, E. (2007). Does bigger mean better? British perspectives on American cancer treatment and research, 1948. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25(36), 5831-5834. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.14.2448

In the summer of 1948, a delegation representing the British Empire Cancer Campaign (BECC) toured North American cancer treatment and research facilities, and reported their observations back to their organization's executive board. This historical a... Read More about Does bigger mean better? British perspectives on American cancer treatment and research, 1948.

Die Herstellung des sexuellen und erotischen Körpers in der westdeutschen Jugendzeitschrift BRAVO in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren = The Making of the Sexual and Erotic Body in the West German Youth Magazine BRAVO, 1960s-70s (2007)
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Sauerteig, L. D. (2007). Die Herstellung des sexuellen und erotischen Körpers in der westdeutschen Jugendzeitschrift BRAVO in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren = The Making of the Sexual and Erotic Body in the West German Youth Magazine BRAVO, 1960s-70s. Medizinhistorisches Journal, 42(2), 142-179

This paper analyses the very successful popular youth magazine BRAVO as a central element of the West German youth culture. The focus is on BRAVO’s contribution to the shaping of the sexual and erotic knowledge of the young in West Germany since the... Read More about Die Herstellung des sexuellen und erotischen Körpers in der westdeutschen Jugendzeitschrift BRAVO in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren = The Making of the Sexual and Erotic Body in the West German Youth Magazine BRAVO, 1960s-70s.