Academic Journal
Q1Medical History
About Medical History
Medical History is a scholarly journal published by Cambridge University Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.264 and H-index of 39.
Coverage: 1957-2026. Research categories: History (Q1); Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q3); Nursing (miscellaneous) (Q3).
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Topics in published research
Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies; Medical History and Innovations; Educational Robotics and Engineering; History of Medicine Studies; Human auditory perception and evaluation; Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices.
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Reported open-access list prices
3,550.00 USD; 2,460.00 GBP
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Kevin Matthew Jones, Psychological Classification and Diagnosis in Asylum Statistics, 1800–1948: The British Table of the Forms of Insanity (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). (Mental Health in Historical Perspective), pp. xxv+383, ISBN: 978-3-031-46153-8. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46154-5.
Janka Kovács
2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10098Burton Cleetus and Anne Gerritsen (eds), Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture, and Trade, 1600–2000 (Bloomsbury: 2023). pp. 320, $108, ISBN 9781350195882.
Aparajita Das
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10081Potions, principles, and the power within: healing between science and spirit in nineteenth-century America
Sanaullah Khan
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10080The Mental Treatment Act 1930: the first five years and the London County Council mental hospitals
Claire Hilton
2026-09-14 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10077Peter Elmer, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. x + 460, £105, hardback, ISBN: 9780198853985.
Alex Beeton
2026-09-10 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10082‘A heart within, a God overhead’: the making of nuclear medicine in postcolonial India, 1947–1985
Kapil Patil
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10076Tracing the origins of Qigong fever: Mao Zedong, Jiang Weiqiao, quiet sitting, and the jingluo system, 1914–1958
Shanshan Gao
2026-08-11 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10079From the traditional account to an ‘off-centred history’ of the mental hygiene movement: the question of the international (1908–1939) – CORRIGENDUM
Hernán Scholten
2026-07-16 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10075Conspiracy theories, science denial, and smallpox. The German-language anti-vaccination movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Martin Tschiggerl
2026-07-15 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10074Competing with the colonial scalpel: ‘Peaceful atoms’ in Cold War Taiwan
Hsiu-Yun Wang
2026-07-09 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10070Global research on Unit 731 medical atrocities: from the 1950s to the 2020s
Yan-jun Yang, Alissa Wang
2026-07-06 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10062Between East and West: Unitarian Service Committee’s medical mission in post-World War II Poland
Kacper Rosner-Leszczyński
2026-06-18 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10072‘Reengineering’ U.S. death data collection: the technology and labour behind electronic death registration
Sara M. B. Simon
2026-06-17 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10071MDH volume 70 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
2026-07 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10069‘An Old Welsh Custom’: What does the bloodletting practice of Torri’r Llech reveal about vernacular medical practice in Wales?
Thomas Alexander Khan-White, Max Cooper
2026-06-17 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10068Hynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka (eds), Aristotle Reads Hippocrates (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024), pp. X + 434, [€116.60/Open Access], hardback/eBook, ISBN: 9789004703537/9789004703544.
Álvaro Basols Berges
2026-06-11 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10073Promoting smoking and fighting cancer in Australian migrant newspapers, 1930–60
Yianni Cartledge, Andrekos Varnava
2026-07 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10064The epidemiology of accidents: U.S. home safety and the slippages between methods, data, and applications, 1940–1980
Alexander Ian Parry
2026-05-20 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10066Meticulous records: Paper technologies, political worlds, and the making of epidemiological data in 1970s Uganda
Thandeka Cochrane, Jennifer Fraser
2026-05-15 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10067The making of a controversy: The Hansen-Neisser debate revisited
Meinrad Pohl
2026-07 · DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2026.10063Reviews
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