Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 2
medicine
"The Value of Health in the Writings of H.D. Thoreau"
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.
"Sanitation, Water and Health"
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
Cognitive Demands on Brains Fall as Healing Properties of Environments Rise: Evidence from fMRI
This article is the abstract of a scientific study on healing vs. non-healing environments. The experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity while participants visualized different environments.
How Can Neurohistory Help Us Understand the Past?
This introduction to the RCC Perspectives volume discusses some of the diverse opportunities and pitfalls that neurohistory may face in the future.
Syphilis in South America: A Closer Look at Pre-Contact Bolivia
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
About this issue
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
Content
"Medicinal Plants in New Zealand: Bridging the Gap between Medical and Environmental History"
Joanna Bishop explores the story of the introduction and use of medicinal plants in New Zealand and their botanical, medical, and environmental histories.
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
Estamira
This documentary is about Estamira, a 63 year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia who has lived and worked for decades in Jardin Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world.