Virtual Issue of Social History of Medicine, marking the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference 'Disease, Health and the State'.
Virtual Issue of Social History of Medicine, marking the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference 'Disease, Health and the State'. Guest editors Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard hand-pick 20 articles and 18 book reviews from our back issues. All articles and reviews are free to access until 8 August 2014 and can also be found here. Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard Introduction Articles Paul Slack Dearth and Social Policy in Early Modern England Harold J. Cook Policing the Health of London: the College of Physicians and the Early Stuart Monarchy Simon Szreter The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: a Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health F. B. Smith The Contagious Diseases Acts Reconsidered Nadja Durbach ‘They Might As Well Brand Us’: Working-Class Resistance to Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England E. P. Hennock Vaccination Policy Against Smallpox, 1835–1914: A Comparison of England with Prussia and Im