Medical History
Overview
Medical History is a scientific journal, published by Cambridge University Press since 1957 in English. The journal's country of origin is United Kingdom and its primary focus area is history of medicine.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Med Hist
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Start
1957
End
Continuing
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0025-7273
e-ISSN
2048-8343
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
History of Medicine
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 9739
34
SJR / Ranks: 11423
331
CiteScore / Ranks: 11545
1.60
JIF / Ranks: 6261
1.4
Recent Articles
1.
Long M
Med Hist
. 2025 Mar;
:1-20.
PMID: 40084504
This article analyses the depictions of immunity and immunological functions employed in proprietary medical advertising in British newspapers between 1890 and 1940. Using marketing copy to gain insights into the...
2.
Bolt J, Cilliers J
Med Hist
. 2025 Mar;
:1-47.
PMID: 40065606
We chart and assess the scope and utilisation of state-supplied hospital infrastructure in British Africa, c. 1900-60. Using archival sources, we examine the heterogeneity in colonial administrations' investment into curative...
3.
Braso Broggi C, Bortlova-Vondrakova H
Med Hist
. 2025 Mar;
:1-22.
PMID: 40051235
In the first months of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish doctor Frederic Duran Jordà developed a new method of blood transfusion which overcame the era of direct arm-to-arm transfusions....
4.
Newsom Kerr M
Med Hist
. 2025 Feb;
:1-23.
PMID: 39980375
Although historians have given close attention to the anti-vaccination movement that gripped late-Victorian England, relatively little scholarship explores how doctors and health officials responded or asks what strategies and assumptions...
5.
Green M, Fancy N
Med Hist
. 2025 Feb;
:1-25.
PMID: 39957329
This essay responds to Brack ., 'Plague and the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources', which is a critique of our 2021 essay in this journal,...
6.
Venables K
Med Hist
. 2025 Feb;
:1-28.
PMID: 39957322
Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895 and in the Second World War was geographically central in Japan's wartime possessions and strategically important, with military airfields, ports, and a copper...
7.
Gantenbein U
Med Hist
. 2025 Feb;
:1-21.
PMID: 39905885
Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), a renowned sixteenth-century German humanist, documented the symptoms of the epidemic that swept through Europe starting around 1495, commonly known as the French Disease. While it...
8.
Wigh S
Med Hist
. 2025 Feb;
:1-17.
PMID: 39905879
This article discusses early modern North Indian ways of expressing how barrenness could be mapped onto a woman's maternal identity. Scholars have engaged with the historical evolution of women's identities,...
9.
Heggie V
Med Hist
. 2025 Jan;
1-22.
PMID: 39819377
Historians have written copiously about the shift to 'germ theories' of disease around the turn of the twentieth century, but in these accounts an entire continent has been left out:...
10.
Bowen E
Med Hist
. 2025 Jan;
1-17.
PMID: 39801141
Historical research on efforts to reduce the stigma associated with venereal disease (VD) generally dates these campaigns back to the 1930s. Within the United States, one of the earliest attempts...