Dear hmadness readers, we are happy to share with you the publication of this new issue of the Social History of Medicine. We hope you will find articles that could be of interest for you.

Here is an extract of the table of content.

Original Articles

“Christ, the Great Physician”: Chaplains in 19th-Century British Asylums
Ute Oswald

Polish Refugees in British Lunatic Asylums, 1836–1879: Authority Figures and Social Control Mechanisms
Emma Harris

Shrinking Back from Shrinks: Suicidal Youth Avoiding Professional Help in Shame and Fear, Finland 1960–1980s
Aino Saaristo

Patient Mobilisation in the Epidemiological Transition: How Tuberculosis Patients made the ‘Heart Sick’
Ylva Söderfeldt and Jonatan Samuelsson

The ‘Prostitute’ and the ‘Client’ in the Making of England’s AIDS Policy
Lola Dickinson

Historical Evolution of the Public Hospital System in Spain, 1963–2019: A Path to Equity in Healthcare Access?
Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Daniel Peñín-Agra and Bruno Casal Rodríguez

The Medical Examination of Enslaved Persons Through the East and West Mediterranean Between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Benedetta Chizzolini and Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio

Excluded by Blood: Scientific Methods and the Search for Fathers in Danish Paternity Disputes, 1920–1960
Cecilie Bjerre

From Deathbed to Database Using ICD10h: A Framework for Coding and Classifying Individual English Language Cause of Death Data Consistently Over Time, as Applied to Scotland 1855–1973
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Hannaliis Jaadla, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson and Richard Tobin

Perspectives on Health Policies in the Transition from Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic: Debates in the First Assembly (1920–1923)
Ceren Gülser İlikan Rasimoğlu

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