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A resource for everyone interested in the History of Medicine


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Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon by Agnes Arnold-Forster

Troubled By Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Owen Davies

Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Strassburg: Children’s Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology  by Aisling Shalvey


*LATEST BLOG POST*
How a pregnancy test saved the lives of a family in Nazi times
Susanne Krejsa MacManus explains how pregnancy testing saved the life of a refugee woman biochemist and her family in the run-up to World War II. In the 1930s, the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh ...


BSHM CONGRESS 2023

The 30th BSHM Congress in 2023 was held at Cardiff University

For the CONGRESS PROGRAMME & ABSTRACTS and RECORDINGS OF KEYNOTE LECTURES please click here


*LATEST JOURNAL ISSUE*  Topics in the History of Medicine (THoM) Volume 2


*LATEST BSHM NEWSLETTER*  BSHM Newsletter April 2023


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