JOURNAL AMHA - ACTA MEDICO-HISTORICA ADRIATICA

In this paper, the first 20 years of publication of the scientific journal AMHA - Acta medico-historica Adriatica (2002-2022) are presented and analysed. This journal has undoubtedly become and remained the central activity of the Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture, which has rapidly evolved into a globally esteemed journal in the history of medicine. The beginning and the context of publishing the journal with reference to the scientific conference "Rijeka and Its Citizens in Medical History" are presented, as well as the journal's profiling into a distinguished international scientific journal, co-publishing with the Faculty of Medicine (University of Rijeka) and its fast development in the later years. The analysis shows the growth of the journal's visibility through indexation in different international journal databases, the number and ratio of scientific articles and the variety of published material. Finally, a review of the potential future directions of development and the significance of this journal within the national, regional and international context is given.

Torn between two lovers - on being a psychologist in a university medical centre.

Background: Psychology as applied to health and illness has a relatively short history. Nevertheless, that history shows a rapid development of the theoretical models that guide the field over the past 60 years. Core theoretical approaches are concisely reviewed, in the context of Kaplan's paper 'Behavior as the central outcome in health care' (1990), which is used as a model to examine the extent to which these approaches embrace Kaplan's notions. Advances: Empirical studies from the health psychology domain are used, which demonstrate the gains in terms of quality of life and behavioural outcomes in patients with (chronic) somatic diseases. Over a period of some 60 years, theoretical models and core concepts in psychology as applied to health and illness have evolved from psychosomatic views to neuropsychology, quality of life, patient education, self-management, illness perceptions, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), shared decision-making (SDM) and health humanities (HH). The more recent models (SDM, HH) appear to align to a considerable degree with adopting 'behavior as the central outcome an outcome in health care'; shared decision-making and health humanities focus on encouraging patients to make sense of and give meaning to their illness in order to attain optimal psychosocial adjustment. Conclusions: In addition to 'behavior as the central outcome in health care', a new definition of the concept of health (i.e. 'the ability to adapt and to self-manage' - Huber et al., 2011) seems to favour patients, healthcare providers, society, and health psychology. Incorporating this concept into medical care may be viewed as a challenge for health psychologists - and as a source of continual struggle with strong biomedical forces.

De promotor de saúde a vetor de doenças: o rio Tietê na perspectiva dos clubes de remo paulistanos, 1900-1940 / From health-giving to disease-ridden: the Tietê river from the perspective of São Paulo's rowing clubs, 1900-1940

Resumo O artigo analisa concepções veiculadas pelos clubes de remo e imprensa esportiva sobre o rio Tietê nas primeiras quatro décadas do século XX, em São Paulo. As fontes históricas utilizadas foram jornais paulistanos e revistas produzidas pelos clubes. Entre 1900 e 1920, tais instituições deram início a práticas esportivas aquáticas, e as fontes apontam um discurso positivo veiculado à promoção da saúde pelos esportes. Entretanto, essa relação se alterou nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. De espaço indissociável das práticas esportivas, da saúde e dos divertimentos, o Tietê passou a ser considerado inadequado, dada a poluição do rio e a impossibilidade de realização de provas esportivas.

Abstract This article analyzes changing conceptions of the Tietê river, in São Paulo, Brazil, in the first four decades of the twentieth century as perceived by rowing clubs and the sports press. The historical sources consulted were local newspapers and magazines produced by the clubs. Between 1900 and 1920, as these institutions started to offer water sports, the discourse in the sources vis-a-vis the promotion of health through such sports is positive. However, this relationship changes in the 1930s and 1940s. The Tietê, once synonymous with sport, health, and entertainment, becomes so polluted that it is considered inadequate, making sporting events on its waters unfeasible.

O Lazareto da Jurujuba na imprensa do Rio de Janeiro oitocentista: "logar mais proprio para estender redes de pescarias que para fundar-se um tal estabelecimento" / The Lazarette of Jurujuba in the nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro press: "a better place to spread fishing nets than to found such an establishment"

Resumo Na segunda metade do século XIX, o periodismo expandiu-se e alcançou grande variedade temática e de público, e era constituído pelos jornais diários, que se dedicavam especialmente ao cotidiano da cidade, e pelas revistas científico-literárias, que veiculavam textos de temáticas diversas, como literatura, biografia, ciências e educação. Nas páginas dos inúmeros periódicos que circulavam no Rio de Janeiro, tanto dos chamados jornais diários quanto dos periódicos científico-literários, evidenciou-se grande interesse pelas temáticas da higiene, da salubridade, da epidemia de febre amarela, das medidas higiênicas e da atuação dos médicos. Entre as medidas sanitárias adotadas, foi instalado em 1º de janeiro de 1851, por orientação de Francisco de Paula Cândido, presidente da Junta de Higiene Pública, um lazareto para cerca de 30 enfermos em uma casa alugada na península do Caju, no Saco da Jurujuba, em Niterói, na província do Rio de Janeiro, e então denominado Lazareto da Jurujuba. Buscamos neste estudo analisar o conteúdo de matérias e comunicados sobre as condições e medidas sanitárias do Rio de Janeiro, especialmente sobre a criação do Lazareto da Jurujuba, publicados nos jornais diários e na imprensa não especializada.

Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, the press expanded and reached a wide range of themes and audiences. It consisted of daily newspapers, which were especially dedicated to the daily life of the city, and scientific-literary magazines, which published texts on a wide range of themes, including literature, biography, science, and education. In the pages of the numerous periodicals that circulated around Rio de Janeiro, both the so-called daily newspapers and the scientific-literary periodicals, there was a great interest in the themes of hygiene, salubrity, the yellow fever epidemic, hygiene, and the performance of doctors. Among these sanitation measures, adopted on January 1, 1851, under the guidance of Francisco de Paula Cândido, president of the Junta de Higiene Pública (Public Hygiene Board), a lazarette for about 30 sick people was installed in a rented house on the Caju peninsula, in Saco da Jurujuba, in Niterói, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, and then called Lazareto da Jurujuba (Lazarette of Jurujuba). The present study thus sought to analyze the content of articles and announcements about the sanitary conditions and measures in Rio de Janeiro, especially concerning the creation of the Lazareto da Jurujuba (Lazarette of Jurujuba), published in daily newspapers, and in the non-specialized press.

Revealing historical perspectives on the professionalization of nursing education in Norway-Dilemmas in the past and the present.

The professionalization of modern nursing education from 1850 and forward is closely linked to values and virtues underpinned by Christian ideals, sex-based stereotypes and class. Development in the late 19th century of modern hospital medicine, combined with a scientific understanding of antisepsis and asepsis, hygiene, contagion prevention and germ theory, were highly influential insights to the dominant position of modern medicine in health care. This development constituted a key premise for what nurses, by virtue of being women, and combined with their education, could offer in terms of medical assistance. It enabled them to challenge the prevailing sex-based stereotypes- and class-based hierarchies, allowing modern nursing to retain aspects of both traditional Christian and womanly values, while at the same time adhering to the medical science paradigm. In this paper, we argue that modern nursing education developed in a context characterized by traditional female and religious values, while at the same time being increasingly dominated by the influence of scientific and medical progress. This conflict between traditional and modern values caused dilemmas and tensions as the nursing profession developed. We argue further that similar dilemmas and tensions continue to pervade contemporary nursing and nursing education.

From cohort to community: The emotional work of birthday cards in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, 1946-2018.

The Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) is Britain's longest-running birth cohort study. From their birth in 1946 until the present day, its research participants, or study members, have filled out questionnaires and completed cognitive or physical examinations every few years. Among other outcomes, the findings of these studies have framed how we understand health inequalities. Throughout the decades and multiple follow-up studies, each year the study members have received a birthday card from the survey staff. Although the birthday cards were originally produced in 1962 as a method to record changes of address at a time when the adolescent study members were potentially leaving school and home, they have become more than that with time. The cards mark, and have helped create, an ongoing evolving relationship between the NSHD and the surveyed study members, eventually coming to represent a relationship between the study members themselves. This article uses the birthday cards alongside archival material from the NSHD and oral history interviews with survey staff to trace the history of the growing awareness of importance of emotion within British social science research communities over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries. It documents changing attitudes to science's dependence on research participants, their well-being, and the collaborative nature of scientific research. The article deploys an intertextual approach to reading these texts alongside an attention to emotional communities drawing on the work of Barbara Rosenwein.

Proving the proverbial gadfly: situating the historical and racial context of Southern medical works by Mary Louise Marshall.

Health sciences librarianship has historically benefited from avoiding critical conversations around the role of race in the profession, reflected through a select few number of articles on the topic. The purpose of this study was to add to this body of literature and apply a critical librarianship framework on the early scholarly record of health sciences librarianship and the legacy of integration within the Medical Library Association (MLA). Three Southern medical works and the integration views of Mary Louise Marshall, the longest-serving president of MLA from 1941 to 1946, were thematically and textually analyzed to redress the profession's long-standing legacy with Whiteness and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) representation. In reframing the historic past of MLA both through Marshall's works and her views, the goal is to acknowledge ways in which the profession has impeded progress and present steps to remedy appropriate outreach for the future.

Febre Amarela: Representação Imagética de uma Epidemia no Rio De Janeiro no Século XIX / Fiebre Amarilla: Representación en imágenes de una epidemia en el Río de Janeiro del Siglo XIX / Yellow Fever: Imagetic Representation of an Epidemic in Rio De Janeiro in the 19th Century

Objetivo: analizar la imagen sobre la epidemia de Fiebre Amarilla en Río de Janeiro, en1850. Metodología: Se trata de un estudio en la perspectiva histórica, con base en análisis culturaly em imaginería. La fuente histórica fue la imagen de la décima tirada de la Revista Illustrada, en1876. Resultados: La imagen publicada el día 04 de marzo de 1876, en la página 07 del número10 del Año 01 de la Revista Ilustrada, denominada "Epidemia de la Fiebre Amarilla" como unbrote que causó altas tasas de mortalidad, representaciones sobre la dinámica de la epidemia, lamuerte, y la participación de Oswaldo Cruz en este contexto. Conclusiones: Las representaciones,en conjunto, demostraron la desesperación con la enfermedad, la muerte como desenlace de estaepidemia y acción sanitaria, pero también la esperanza y salvación por medio de la vacuna comodesdoblamiento de este brote.(AU)

Objective: to analyze the image about the Yellow Fever epidemic in Rio de Janeiro in 1850.Methodology: This is a historical perspective, based on cultural and imagery analysis. Thehistorical source was the image of the tenth issue of Illustrada Magazine, in 1876. Results: Theimage published on March 4, 1876, on page 07 of the number 10 of Year 01 of Revista Ilustrada,denominated "Yellow Fever Epidemic" translates as an outbreak that caused high mortality rates,representations on the dynamics of the epidemic, death, and Oswaldo Cruz's participation in thiscontext. Conclusions: The representations, together, demonstrated the despair with the disease, thedeath as an outcome of this epidemic and sanitary action, but also the hope and salvation throughthe vaccine as a result of this outbreak.(AU)

Objetivo: analisar a imagem sobre a epidemia de Febre Amarela no Rio de Janeiro, em1850. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo na perspectiva histórica, com base em análise culturale imagética. A fonte histórica foi a imagem da décima tiragem da Revista Illustrada, em 1876.Resultados: A imagem publicada no dia 04 de março de 1876, na página 07 do número 10 do Ano01 da Revista Ilustrada, denominada “Epidemia da Febre Amarela” traduz como um surto quecausou altas taxas de mortalidade, representações sobre a dinâmica da epidemia, a morte, e aparticipação de Oswaldo Cruz neste contexto. Conclusões: As representações, em conjunto,demonstraram o desespero com a doença, a morte como desfecho desta epidemia e ação sanitária,mas também a esperança e salvação por meio da vacina como desdobramento deste surto.(AU)

Ethics of genomic passports: should the genetically resistant be exempted from lockdowns and quarantines?

Lockdowns and quarantines have been implemented widely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been accompanied by a rise in interest in the ethics of 'passport' systems that allow low-risk individuals greater freedoms during lockdowns and exemptions to quarantines. Immunity and vaccination passports have been suggested to facilitate the greater movement of those with acquired immunity and who have been vaccinated. Another group of individuals who pose a low risk to others during pandemics are those with genetically mediated resistances to pathogens. In this paper, we introduce the concept of genomic passports, which so far have not been explored in the bioethics literature. Using COVID-19 as an illustrative example, we explore the ethical issues raised by genomic passports and highlight differences and similarities to immunity passports. We conclude that, although there remain significant practical and ethical challenges to the implementation of genomic passports, there will be ways to ethically use them in the future.

'Witness in White' medical ethics learning tours on medicine during the Nazi era.

During the Nazi era, physicians provided expertise and a veneer of legitimacy enabling crimes against humanity. In a creative educational initiative to address current ethical dilemmas in clinical medicine, we conduct ethics learning missions bringing senior physicians to relevant Nazi era sites in either Germany or Poland. The tours share a core curriculum contextualising history and medical ethics, with variations in emphasis. Tours to Germany provide an understanding of the theoretical origins of the ethical violations and crimes of Nazi physicians. Tours to Poland address the magnitude of the Nazi physician's atrocities as well as displays of heroism by Jewish and righteous among the nations' physicians. Exemplary as well as shameful physician behaviour is analysed from an ethical perspective. A combination of unique educational methodologies maximises learning and personal growth, enabling participants to examine ethically complex clinical situations with extrapolation to modern-day medical practice. Learning is designed with relevance to contemporary medical ethics dilemmas such as beginning and end-of-life issues, providing tenets from which participants can develop as more ethical and informed physicians. Participant feedback confirms efficacy and worth of these growth-promoting ethics learning tours which should be expanded to other international groups and settings (see online film Witness in White Berlin 2019 available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75VUZvo3Bec).

THE OLDEST LOCATIONS OF CITY HOSPITAL IN RIJEKA / [NAJSTARIJE LOKACIJE GRADSKE BOLNICE U RIJECI]

The article describes the oldest locations and buildings for the treatment of patients in Rijeka. According to historical sources, the first known site for health care and treatment was a hospital founded in the 14th or 15th century in the Old Town, in the St Sebastian Street, in which also existed a little church of the same name. It is not known for sure when the hospital was moved to a new location, to a house opposite the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Statute of Rijeka from 1530 mentions it under the name Hospital of St. Mary (hospitali Sanctae Mariae) but later changed its name to St. Spirit Hospital. It was named after the chapel located in the same block of buildings. As in the previous location, there was an orphanage and an almshouse within the hospital. The hospital and the orphanage operated in this building until 1822, when, at the initiative of the Municipality, they moved to Brajda, in an adapted complex of buildings of the former wax factory. The building of the former hospital has been adapted for residential use. At the end of World War II, the building was destroyed under aerial bombardment and later a new building was built in its place.

Ethics of research at the intersection of COVID-19 and black lives matter: a call to action.

This paper describes how to ethically conduct research with Black populations at the intersection of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. We highlight the issues of historical mistrust in the USA and how this may impact Black populations' participation in COVID-19 vaccination trials. We provide recommendations for researchers to ethically engage Black populations in research considering the current context. Our recommendations include understanding the impact of ongoing trauma, acknowledging historical context, ensuring diverse research teams and engaging in open and honest conversations with Black populations to better address their needs. The core of our recommendation is recognising the impact of trauma in our research and health care practices.

[The restoration or formation? The post-war reform of the Soviet health care].

The article considers main directions of health care reform in the USSR during first post-war decades. The brief description of the state of health and health care in the USSR on the eve of the reform is presented. The main transformations implemented in 1945-1965 are adduced and analyzed. The corresponding impact on changes in medical demographic indices is demonstrated.

Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions: who should decide? And on what basis?

We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19 patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of insufficient life saving resources. The dispute we present is particularly significant as it juxtaposes two opposite views of who should make triage decisions, and how doctors should best be supported. There are both empirical and normative questions at stake here. The empirical questions pertain to the available level of evidence that healthcare professionals would rather not be left alone with their 'clinical judgments' to make triage decisions, and to the accounts of distributive justice that doctors and healthcare professionals rely on, when making triage decisions. The normative questions pertain to how this empirical evidence should inform guidelines on how prioritisation decisions are made in a context of emergency, and who gets to have the authority to do so. This debate goes beyond the discussion of the care of critically ill patients with COVID-19 and has broader implications beyond the national context for the discussion of how to relieve moral distress in contexts of imbalances between healthcare resources and clinical needs of a population.

Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: critiquing the impact of disease public profile on policy and clinical decision-making.

The controversy surrounding the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an antimalarial drug, for COVID-19 has raised numerous ethical and policy problems. Since the suggestion that HCQ has potential for COVID-19, there have been varying responses from clinicians and healthcare institutions, ranging from adoption of protocols using HCQ for routine care to the conduct of randomised controlled trials to an effective system-wide prohibition on its use for COVID-19. In this article, we argue that the concept of 'disease public profile' has become a prominent, if not the sole, determinant in decision-making across various healthcare responses to the pandemic. In the case of COVID-19, the disease's public profile is based on clinical and non-clinical factors that include contagiousness, clinical presentation and media coverage. In particular, we briefly examine the dangers of a heightened public profile in magnifying the inequality of diseases and undermining three key ethical concepts, namely (1) evidence-based practice, (2) sustainable allocation and (3) meaningful consent.

An oral history of health psychology in the UK.

Purpose An oral history of the development of health psychology in the United Kingdom. Methods Standard oral history methods produced interviews with 53 UK health psychologists, averaging 92 min in length. All interviewees entered the field from the 1970s to the 2000s, representing all four countries in the United Kingdom. A reconstructive mode of analysis, along with the few existing sources, was used to create a narrative of the history of health psychology in the United Kingdom. Audio recordings and transcripts will be archived for use by future researchers. Findings In the 1970s, medical schools in London recruited psychologists to teach, while also conducting pragmatic research on issues in healthcare. At the same time, some clinical psychologists began to work with physical health conditions in general hospitals. Partly influenced by developments in the United States and Europe, an identity of 'health psychology' developed and spread to researchers and practitioners doing work in psychology and health. In the 1980s, the field continued to attract researchers, including social psychologists working with health behaviours and outcomes, and clinical psychologists working in health care settings. During this time, it became formalized as a scientific field with the creation of the BPS Health Psychology Section, courses, and journals. In the 1990s, the field moved towards professional practice, which was controversial with other BPS divisions. However, it continued to grow and develop through the 2000s and 2010s. Conclusion Reflections on the development of UK health psychology represent the first historical narrative produced from oral testimony of those who were present at the time. Statement of Contribution What is already known on this subject? Health psychology emerged in the 1970s, initially in the United States following an APA Task Force report. It developed from a range of precursor movements including psychosomatic medicine, while in the United Kingdom medical psychology was an additional precursor. The development of health psychology has been discussed for a range of countries including the United States and others, but historical scholarship relating to the United Kingdom has been limited. What does this study add? From an oral history project, a narrative of UK health psychology's development is built up. Influences included opportunities at medical schools from the 1970s onward. Growing interest in health behaviours as a test of social psychology theory was important. The experiences of clinical psychologists working in health care settings are demonstrated. Multidisciplinary influences on the emergence and shaping of health psychology are evident.

Communities of practice: acknowledging vulnerability to improve resilience in healthcare teams.

The majority of healthcare professionals regularly witness fragility, suffering, pain and death in their professional lives. Such experiences may increase the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue, especially if they are without self-awareness and a healthy work environment. Acquiring a deeper understanding of vulnerability inherent to their professional work will be of crucial importance to face these risks. From a relational ethics perspective, the role of the team is critical in the development of professional values which can help to cope with the inherent vulnerability of healthcare professionals. The focus of this paper is the role of Communities of Practice as a source of resilience, since they can create a reflective space for recognising and sharing their experiences of vulnerability that arises as part of their work. This shared knowledge can be a source of strength while simultaneously increasing the confidence and resilience of the healthcare team.

Vitor Valla: uma vida de reflexão e militância em educação popular e saúde / Victor Valla: a life of reflection and activism in popular education and health

Resumo O presente artigo busca estabelecer uma narrativa sobre alguns aspectos da trajetória acadêmica e militante do professor e educador popular Victor Valla, tendo como destaque uma problemática assinalada por ele em vários textos e debates, sobre a recorrente incompreensão de alguns pesquisadores e técnicos (assistentes sociais, educadores, médicos, enfermeiros, etc.) sobre as classes populares e suas falas. Valla ressaltava a existência de produção de conhecimento para além do circuito tradicional das universidades e centros de pesquisa, especialmente no âmbito das classes populares, que, para ele, estaria imbricada em suas práticas. Neste sentido, advogava uma nova postura teórica e metodológica para os projetos sociais, educacionais culturais e de saúde junto aos grupos populares, o que seria totalmente coerente e compatível com as premissas de um sistema de saúde democrático e equânime, apregoado pelos envolvidos com a área da Saúde.

Abstract The article explores aspects of the academic and activist life of the teacher and popular educator Victor Valla, particularly his repeated critiques, in writings and debates, about how some researchers and some social workers, educators, medical providers, and others working with the popular classes failed to understand these groups and their discourse. Valla embraced the idea that knowledge can be produced outside the traditional walls of universities and research centers, especially by the popular classes, who embed knowledge production in their very practices. In this regard, he advocated a new theoretical and methodological posture in social, cultural, educational, and health projects among the poor, in total consonance with the presuppositions of a democratic, equitable healthcare system, as supported by those involved in the health sector.

Lutas pela história da saúde: perspectivas sobre as ciências sociais em saúde a partir da trajetória intelectual de Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos / Struggles for the history of health: perspectives on the social sciences in health based on the intellectual trajectory of Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos

Resumo A entrevista aborda os percursos que ligam as ciências sociais à saúde a partir da trajetória do sociólogo Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos. Participante ativo do processo de integração desses campos, Castro Santos contempla alguns dos desafios enfrentados em sua trajetória profissional como forma de abordar aproximações que nem sempre se revelaram desprovidas de tensões. Conversa rica em fatos e processos, Castro Santos situa alguns dos principais personagens e marcos de uma trajetória que trouxe contribuições tanto para as ciências sociais e a história como, principalmente, para as ciências da saúde.

Abstract This interview discusses the connections between social sciences and health, based on the trajectory of sociologist Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos. Castro Santos was an active participant in the process of integrating these fields, and considers some of the challenges he faced as a way of addressing approaches that were not always devoid of tension. In a conversation rich in facts and processes, Castro Santos describes some of the most important characters and landmarks from a trajectory that contributed to the social sciences and history, and especially to the health sciences.