作为该领域超过四分之三个世纪的领先期刊，该公报涵盖了全球医学史的社会、文化和科学方面。每期都包括对近期医学史书籍的评论。经常出现的部分包括数字人文与公共历史和教育学。 BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 是美国医学史协会 (AAHM) 和约翰霍普金斯医学史研究所的官方出版物。

The Bulletin of the History of Medicine is a leading journal in the field for over three centuries, covering the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of global medical history. Each issue includes reviews of recent books in medical history. Regular sections feature digital humanities, public history, and pedagogy. The journal is the official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.

《Bulletin of the History of Medicine》是该领域超过三个世纪的领先期刊，涵盖全球医学史的社会、文化和科学方面。每期都包括对近期医学史书籍的评论。常见的栏目包括数字人文、公共历史和教育学。该期刊是美国医学史协会（AAHM）和约翰霍普金斯医学史研究所的官方出版物。

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

summary: In April 1965, the Turkish Parliament passed the law legalizing birth control, including the pills and the use of intrauterine devices. This article examines the beginnings and expansion of family planning in Turkey in the 1960s by tracing the encounters of American experts, Turkish physicians along with bureaucrats, and thousands of urban squatter dwelling and rural women and men. Different from the previous historical accounts framing family planning as an insular and state-driven modernization project, it provides a transnational history of family planning in Turkey by unearthing intimate links between the discourses of development and histories of family, sexuality, and reproduction. By using Population Council documents, Turkish official papers, Parliament minutes, visual materials, and national and feminist press accounts, this article demonstrates that family planning practices with new technologies of contraceptives constituted often-neglected but indispensable components of infrastructure in the formation of technologies of governance in Turkey in Cold War context.

Seçil Yilmaz

Bulletin of the history of medicine

Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey

家庭构建的亲密技术：冷战时期土耳其的节育政治

summary: In the 1950s, the idea of sex change increasingly assumed the mainstay of public interest. As psychiatrists and psychologists developed new understandings of gender, the role of surgeons is often overlooked in the early history of sex reassignment. This article explores the work of one such doctor, Elmer Belt, a urologist based in Los Angeles. Between 1953 and 1962, Belt operated on twenty-nine male-to-female patients in the face of ethical and material obstacles. Working closely with Harry Benjamin, Belt developed a surgical technique that transplanted the testes inside the abdomen rather than involving full castration. He became involved in the famous case of Agnes Torres, on which other high-profile scientists based their invention of such seminal concepts as "passing" and "gender identity." Belt's utilization of Agnes as exemplary evidence to support his technique illustrates how and why testicular retention remained a heated topic in the development of transsexual science.

Howard Chiang

Hide and Seek: Elmer Belt, Agnes, and the Battle over Castration in Transsexual Surgery, 1953–1962

躲猫猫：埃尔默·贝尔特、艾格尼丝与1953-1962年间变性手术中阉割问题的争斗

summary: Based on 180 censored letters and two pamphlets written by psychiatric patients committed to Jydske Asyl (Asylum of Jutland) in Risskov, Denmark, between 1895 and 1920, the authors give an account of how the patients experienced their stay at the newly established mental hospital in Risskov. In the first part of the article, the authors outline central themes. The letters and pamphlets describe how a large part of the treatment at the mental hospitals involved a significant amount of coercion in various forms. In the second part of the article, they outline the mental hospital's historical context to understand the institutional context in which the patients wrote their descriptions of everyday life. The authors focus on the ideas behind the treatments the patients experienced, which involved the ideals the psychiatrists formulated when Jydske Asyl was constructed and the reality of everyday life at the mental hospital.

Signe Düring

Sarah Kirkegaard Jensen

Line Keller Jensen

Klaus Nielsen

Patients' Views on Psychiatry, Coercion, and Social Class

患者对精神病学、强制措施和社会阶层的看法

summary: This paper offers the term "eugenic maternalism" to conceptualize how eugenic thought and practice was disseminated through Progressive Era materialist reform work. Focusing on the Better Babies Contests hosted by the New York City Babies Welfare Association from 1913 to 1916, I argue that the BWA Better Babies Contest provides an opportunity to broaden our understanding of the ways eugenic logic permeated maternalist discussions of child welfare. The contests incentivized mothers and children to participate in educational programming at local community centers, enlisting families in the project of assimilation. Within these spaces, eugenics operated as a reciprocal process of environmental reform, negotiated between reformers and immigrant women. Both participants and organizers acted within a eugenic framework in which their ability to control the environment would determine their future hereditary potential and capacity for citizenship.

Jamie Marsella

"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City": Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest

“更好的婴儿，更好的母亲，更好的城市”：优生母性主义、婴儿福利协会与城市优生婴儿竞赛

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. has long been a celebrated figure at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and in the history of medicine more generally. And yet in part on account of Holmes's putative link to eugenics, but especially on account of his role as dean in the dismissal of the first three African American students at HMS in 1850, his name has recently become associated with systemic racism as well. In October 2020, the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society at HMS (one of the society "homes" to which students are assigned at admission) was renamed the William Augustus Hinton Society, in honor of the pioneering African American syphilologist. This paper examines the shifting depiction of Holmes as well as Holmes's considerations of hereditary determinism and race over the course of his long career in the nineteenth century as a test case concerning the evolving evaluation of historical figures in the history of medicine.

Abbreviation	Bull. Hist. Med.
Journal Impact	0.96
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE(Q2)

ISSN	0007-5140, 1086-3176
h-index	36

Publication Information	Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press，Publishing cycle: Quarterly，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1945，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 1.75%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：>12周，或约稿
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey

Hide and Seek: Elmer Belt, Agnes, and the Battle over Castration in Transsexual Surgery, 1953–1962

Patients' Views on Psychiatry, Coercion, and Social Class

"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City": Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest

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Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey

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Patients' Views on Psychiatry, Coercion, and Social Class

"Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City": Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest

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