1st Edition
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal
Introduction: Reading Medicine and Health in Periodicals
Sally Frampton and Jennifer Wallis
1. The ‘Medical-Women Question’ and the Multivocality of the Victorian Medical Press, 1869-1900
Alison Moulds
2. Shaping Doctors and Society: The Portuguese Medical Press (1880-1926)
Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota and Isabel Amaral
3. Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century Journals
Beatriz Pichel
4. ‘Bicycle-Face’ and ‘Lawn Tennis’ Girls: Debating girls’ health in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century British periodicals
Hilary Marland
5. Using Digitised Medical Journals in a Cross European Project on Addiction History
Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge
Biography
Sally Frampton is Humanities and Healthcare Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications have focused on the history of surgery and the development of medical journalism in the nineteenth century, and include her monograph Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Palgrave, 2018).
Jennifer Wallis is historian of medicine and psychiatry at Imperial College London, UK. Her publications include Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (Palgrave, 2017) and the co-authored volume Anxious Times: Medicine & Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
