The Gym Tonic aerobics programme heralded the advent of a new politics of the female body
The events that took place in the district of Bafia in 1928, illustrate the political stakes of vaccine resistance in the colonial world.Roughly translated : « Sleepers of the fat kind in Cameroon taken...
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In 19th century Belgium, post-mortem caesarean section turned into a politicized debate.
Almost entirely overlooked throughout the 20th century, neglected by contemporary medical manuals, the clitoris has gradually returned centre stage thanks to Western feminism.
In 1852 the criminalisation of abortion is reaffirmed after the Academy of Medicine arrived at a resolution regarding therapeutic abortion.
Drapotemania exemplifies the existence of psychiatric diagnoses rooted in the political stigmatisation of a social group.
The 20th century oversaw the development of emergency medicine as a new public health norm.
Did excess mortality among the Great War insane result from a political choice?
By asserting the hymen, a ubiquitous trait of female anatomy, 19th physicians reinforced the taboos affecting women's sexuality.
From the outset, the measurement of intelligence was as much a scientific as an eminently political endeavour.
Patients and physicians hold conflicting political and scientific views on the existence of an emerging disease caused by tick bites.
In 1865 cholera spread from Mecca to the rest of the world, redirecting just-born international health policy’s priorities on Muslim pilgrimage flows.
The notion of neurodiversity appeared at the end of the 90s in an effort to de-pathologize mental illness and combat discrimination.
Over the course of the 20th century, obesity came to be seen as a public health issue.
Should the new career of assistant medical be understood as a return to the Officiers de Santé status ?
The lumping together of mental illness and radicalisation leads to negating the latter’s implication in individual and collective history
Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act socially. Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act...
A body enhancing aesthetic practice, tattooing pertained, in the 19th century, to the world of crime and social deviance.
The Great War marked a second turning point in the history of social policies towards the blind.
