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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: HISTORY OF MEDICINE Volume 1 MEDICAL JOURNALS AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MEDICAL JOURNALS AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE Historical Essays Edited by WILLIAM F. BYNUM, STEPHEN LOCK AND ROY PORTER Firstpublishedin1992byRoutledge Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2019 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1992W.F.Bynum,StephenLockandRoyPorter Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-367-08576-6(Set) ISBN:978-0-429-02312-5(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-0-367-07595-8(Volume1)(hbk) ISBN:978-0-429-02150-3(Volume1)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. MEDICAL JOURNALS AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE HISTORICAL ESSAYS Edited by W.F. Bynum, Stephen Lock and Roy Porter London and New York First published in 1992 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc. 29 West 35th Street, New York, NYlOOOl © 1992 W.F. Bynum, Stephen Lock and Roy Porter Typeset by LaserScript, Mitcham, Surrey Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn All rights reseIVed. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Catawguing in Publication Data Medical journals and medical knowledge: historical essays. 1. Medicine. History I. Bynum, W.F. (William Frederick) 1943-II. Lock, Stephen III. Porter, Roy 1946-IV. Series 610.9 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Medical journals and medical knowledge: historical essays/ edited by W.F. Bynum, Stephen Lock, and Roy Porter. p. cm. - (The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine) Includes bibliographical references and index. I.Journalism, Medical-United States - History-18th century. 2. Medical writing-Periodicals - United States - History. 3. Communication in medicine - United States - History. 4. Medical literature - United States - History. I. Bynum, W.F. (William F.), 1943- . II. Lock, Stephen. III. Porter, Roy, 1946- IV. Series. [DNLM: 1. Periodicals - history - essays. 2. Publishing - history - essays. WZ 345 M4885] PN4784.M4M38 1992 070.4'4 961 - dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 91-25779 CIP ISBN 0--415--07025-2 Contents List of figures and tables vii Acknowledgements IX Introduction 1 1. The rise ofmedicaljournalism in Britain to 1800 6 Roy Porter 2. Periodical knowledge: medical journals and their editors in nineteenth-century Britain 29 W.F. Bynum and Janice C. Wilson 3. Medicine, politics and the medical periodical 1800-50 49 jean Loudon and Irvine Loudon 4. Medicine and the Victorian scientific press 70 W.H. Brock 5. 'Notorious abominations': architecture and the public health in The Builder 1843-83 90 Ruth Richardson 6. Social diseases? Crime and medicine in the Victorian press 108 Michael Harris · 7. The British Medical journal: a retrospect 126 Peter Bartrip 8. The American Medical Association and its journal 146 Elb.abeth Knoll 9. The British Medical Journal in America 165 John Burnham 10. Psychiatric journals and the evolution of psychological medicine 188 Michael Shepherd v Contents 11. The medicaljournals and the politics of public health 1918-90 207 Jane Lewis 12. The British Medicaljourna~ general practitioners and the state 1840-1990 228 Julian Tudor Hart 13. The British Medical journal and the twentieth- century consultant 248 Christopher C. Booth Index 263 Vl Figures and tables Figures 2.1 Total number of British medical periodicals introduced, 1800-99, by decade 30 2.2 Number of new periodical titles introduced in each decade, 1800-99, broken down by type 31 2.3 Lifespans of all titles introduced, 1800-99, by decade (types 1-5) 34 2.4 Lifespans of orthodox popular medical periodicals (type 4), by decade 35 2.5 Lifespans of unorthodox medical periodicals (type 5), 1800-99, by decade 36 2.6 London as a place of publication compared to other places in Great Britain, by decade, 1800-99 37 3.1 Features of medical periodicals established 1800-49 50 10.1 Psychiatry and its related disciplines 204 Tables 3.1 Length of survival of the 168 British medical periodicals established between the years 1800 and 1849 (inclusive) 53 3.2 The division, according to type, of all medical periodicals established between 1800 and 1850 (inclusive) as well as those established in the eighteenth century which survived into the nineteenth 54 vii
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