Jonathan Reinarz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Reinarz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Reinarz |
| SIGNATURE | REINARZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2900-6567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939
Saints, Crooks & Slavers: History of a Bristol House and its People
These books should be reviewed together, not just because they are written by the same author. In 2019, Peter and Sue Cullimore put their house forward as a suitable property to explore in the BBC
Lessons from a Forgotten Disaster: The Queen Victoria Street Fire, 1902
On 9 June 1902, a fire at the General Electric Company offices in Queen Victoria Street led to the deaths of ten employees, including nine young women aged between 14 and 18. A coroner’s inquest was immediately organized to ascertain the cause of death and a number of witnesses were called to give evidence. This article explores the evidence gathered at the inquest, focusing on the testimony of four witnesses: the spectator, employee, survivor an…
Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing by James Elwick
A Sensory History Manifesto by Mark M. Smith
In this short, thought-provoking publication, Smith reflects on how historians have written about the senses and how they might continue to do so in future. Smith admits that if it is an actual manifesto, it is a “modest” one; its three thirty-page chapters are really an invitation to adopt new ways of thinking and writing about the senses. The first chapter examines the twentieth-century origins of this historical approach; the second considers …
Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times
In the last decade or two, so much has been written about the history of the senses that anyone working in this field might easily struggle to keep up with the deluge of sensory scholarship. This volume, like previous studies of smell, opens with reference to Norbert Elias’ The Civilizing Process (Basel, 1939), which is appropriate not least because Elias himself looked to the court of Louis XIV and its restrictions on excessive or indecent react…
Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History
This book is about clean bodies, or dirty bodies that became cleaner over the past two centuries. If reduced to two broad themes, it focuses on both bodies and the clothes that envelop them. The period itself is broken down in a way that considers the influence of certain individuals as a modern obsession with cleanliness took root in the West. Initially, cleansing rituals appeared to mirror those of the middle and upper classes, before the emerg…
Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History
Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 450. $49.95. ISBN 978 1 5017 3159 4. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 675–676, https://…
Andrew Bamji, Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery
Andrew Bamji worked as a consultant physician in rheumatology and rehabilitation at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, from 1983 to 2011; he has probably researched its history for as many years. The 320-bed institution in south London was set up following the Battle of the Somme and its renowned staff, including otolaryngologist Harold Gillies, treated more than 5,000 wounded servicemen between its establishment in August 1917 and the mid-1920s. Whi…
Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
This book opens with an episode in 2005, when New Yorkers panicked following the sudden and overpowering advent of a maple-syrup scent. No, Canadians had not invaded the United States, the source turned out to be far more innocuous. But according to Kiechle, the public’s responses to scent on such occasions connect us with an age when aromas announced the arrival of epidemics and sickness. Discussions in nineteenth-century newspapers similarly re…
Michael Whitfield, The Dispensaries: Healthcare for the Poor Before the NHS
While few medical historians have actually ‘forgotten’ about dispensaries, as this volume’s title suggests, this is the first book published on this subject since the start of the new millennium. Michael Whitfield’s self-published volume is worth reading for this reason alone; he might even be forgiven some of the obvious oversights in the production of this volume, most notably the absence of a table of contents. On that note, this book begins w…
From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The world of taste in Early Modern Europe
Dennis R. Mills, Effluence and Influence: Public Health, Sewers and Politics in Lincoln, 1848–50
This book begins with a pre-history, describing Mills’s discovery of public health reports for Lincoln from 1849 and a plan to construct a sewer for the town while examining volumes in the city archives. Originally proposed by George Giles, the plan was discovered between the pages of two sanitary reports written by Giles and Robert Swan. Since sources for provincial conurbations are scarce, a decision was made to reproduce the material, includin…
A Cultural History of the Senses
Most historians are aware that histories of the senses have multiplied since the 1980s. Early inspiring studies by Alain Corbin, Constance Classen and David Howes now sit alongside multi-sensory hi
Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
Journal Article Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War. Get access Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 197. $27.95. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
The Story of Pain: From prayer to painkillersJoanna Bourke
In past decades, numerous histories of pain have appeared. Where does this one fit in? Unlike many previous studies, with their backdrops of science and sedation, this book's narrative focuses on t
Laura Kelly, Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s-1920s: Origins, Education and Careers
As readers of this journal will know, the history of British women's struggles to enter the medical profession has been well researched. Since the appearance of Moberly Bell's Storming the Citadel (1953), a steady stream of books and biographies has charted the backgrounds, educations, careers and challenges faced by women in or just attempting to enter the medical profession. Highlights include Bonner's To the Ends of the Earth (1992), but subse…
Child Patients, Hospitals and the Home in Eighteenth-Century England
This article seeks to map out some of the principal pathways to medical care used by the parents of poor children. We focus on the most formal provider of healthcare in eighteenth-century towns, the voluntary general hospitals, but we use these institutions as a prism to consider the way that the treatment of child sickness was managed more generally in five local settings. Utilising eighteenth-century hospital admissions and discharge registers …
Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929
Journal Article Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834–1929 Get access Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834–1929, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 400. £65. ISBN 978 0 230 21966 3. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893-1931
Journal Article Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893–1931 Get access Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893–1931, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008. Pp. xxxiv + 389. £55. ISBN 978 0 7083 2174 4. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social His…
Historical and contemporary perspectives on children's diets: Is choice always in the patients' best interest
On 29 March 1744, Thomasin Grace, a 13-year-old girl, was the first inpatient admitted to the Northampton General Infirmary (later the Northampton General Hospital). Inpatient hospital diets, then and now, are mainstays of effective patient treatment. In the mid-18th century there were four prescribed diets at Northampton: 'full', 'milk', 'dry' and 'low'. Previous opinions concerning these four diets were unfavourable, but had not been based upon…
Sensing the South
Louise Foxcroft. The Making of Addiction: The “Use and Abuse” of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007
Unearthing and Dissecting the Records of English Provincial Medical Education, c. 1825-1948
The archives of medical schools are a valuable resource for researchers in the history of medicine. This article offers an introduction to the standard records which comprise five of these collections for provincial England: Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield. It identifies unusual documents, including iconographic, manuscript and literary sources, which are available for some, but not all, collections. It concludes with a pr…
The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography
Journal Article The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography Get access Thomas Söderqvist (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 270. £55. ISBN 978 0 754 65181 9. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 201–204, https://doi.org/10.1093…
The Age of Museum Medicine: The Rise and Fall of the Medical Museum at Birmingham's School of Medicine
While much has been written in the last few decades on the history of medical education, less attention has focused on the subject of medical museums, which were central to instruction at medical schools during the nineteenth century. This article aims to readdress the question of provincial medical education in England and shed some light on museums, which, if one were judging by their rules, regulations, and costliness, were among the most impo…
The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography
Journal Article The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography Get access Thomas Söderqvist (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 270. £55. ISBN 978 0 754 65181 9. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 201–204, https://doi.org/10.1093…
From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The world of taste in Early Modern Europe
Promoting the Pint: Ale and Advertising in late Victorian and Edwardian England
According to historians, most nineteenth-century brewers did little to promote sales of their product, few alcoholic drinks having been widely advertised by their manufacturers. In general, it appears most English brewers believed a good product was their best form of advertisement. Despite not pursuing bold advertising strategies, many English brewers appear to have relied on indirect or “below the line” methods of advertising, some of which are…
Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000
Journal Article Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000 Get access C. Anne Wilson, Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000, Totnes: Prospect Books, 2006. Pp. 310. £30. ISBN 1903018463. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 2, …
Historical and contemporary perspectives on children's diets: Is choice always in the patients' best interest
On 29 March 1744, Thomasin Grace, a 13-year-old girl, was the first inpatient admitted to the Northampton General Infirmary (later the Northampton General Hospital). Inpatient hospital diets, then and now, are mainstays of effective patient treatment. In the mid-18th century there were four prescribed diets at Northampton: 'full', 'milk', 'dry' and 'low'. Previous opinions concerning these four diets were unfavourable, but had not been based upon…
Unearthing and Dissecting the Records of English Provincial Medical Education, c. 1825-1948
The archives of medical schools are a valuable resource for researchers in the history of medicine. This article offers an introduction to the standard records which comprise five of these collections for provincial England: Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield. It identifies unusual documents, including iconographic, manuscript and literary sources, which are available for some, but not all, collections. It concludes with a pr…
Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History
Journal Article Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History Get access Mack P. Holt (ed.), Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History , Oxford : Berg , 2006 . Pp. 246 . £17.99 (pbk). ISBN 1 84520 166 3 . Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 183–185, https://doi.org/10.1…
Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945
Journal Article Reviews of Books Get access Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945. By Thomas Neville Bonner. Baltimore, Md: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. 424 pp. £14. ISBN 0 8018 6482 8. JONATHAN REINARZ JONATHAN REINARZ University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2001, Pag…
Fit for Management: Premium Apprenticeships and the English Brewing Industry, 1870-1914
This article examines apprenticeship at a single English brewery, Flower & Sons of Stratford-upon-Avon, between 1870 and 1914, years that witnessed great advances in the science of brewing. While the institution of apprenticeship was generally on the decline as a method of training in these years, the detailed records of a particular provincial firm demonstrate its ability to adapt and survive during a period of change, while documenting the expe…
John Greenaway, Drink and British Politics: A Study in Policy Making . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003
The Age of Museum Medicine: The Rise and Fall of the Medical Museum at Birmingham's School of Medicine
While much has been written in the last few decades on the history of medical education, less attention has focused on the subject of medical museums, which were central to instruction at medical schools during the nineteenth century. This article aims to readdress the question of provincial medical education in England and shed some light on museums, which, if one were judging by their rules, regulations, and costliness, were among the most impo…
Doctor Franklin's Medicine
Benjamin Franklin has been the focus of innumerable historical studies. His life and work have been researched to an extent that might easily lead one to conclude that ‘there is little more that can be discovered or written about this remarkable man’ (p. xi). However, rather than concentrate on Franklin's politics, personal life or printing career, Stanley Finger's volume focuses almost exclusively on his medical legacy. The study's main purpose …
Promoting the Pint: Ale and Advertising in late Victorian and Edwardian England
According to historians, most nineteenth-century brewers did little to promote sales of their product, few alcoholic drinks having been widely advertised by their manufacturers. In general, it appears most English brewers believed a good product was their best form of advertisement. Despite not pursuing bold advertising strategies, many English brewers appear to have relied on indirect or “below the line” methods of advertising, some of which are…
Mutualism and Health Care: British Hospital Contributory Schemes in the Twentieth Century. By Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis
Journal Article Mutualism and Health Care: British Hospital Contributory Schemes in the Twentieth Century. By Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis. Get access Mutualism and Health Care: British Hospital Contributory Schemes in the Twentieth Century. By Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2006. xii + 243 pp. ISBN 0-7190-6578-X, £60. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingha…
Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History
Journal Article Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History Get access Mack P. Holt (ed.), Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History , Oxford : Berg , 2006 . Pp. 246 . £17.99 (pbk). ISBN 1 84520 166 3 . Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 183–185, https://doi.org/10.1…
Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000
Journal Article Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000 Get access C. Anne Wilson, Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 bc to ad 2000, Totnes: Prospect Books, 2006. Pp. 310. £30. ISBN 1903018463. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 2, …
Unearthing and Dissecting the Records of English Provincial Medical Education, c. 1825-1948
The archives of medical schools are a valuable resource for researchers in the history of medicine. This article offers an introduction to the standard records which comprise five of these collections for provincial England: Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield. It identifies unusual documents, including iconographic, manuscript and literary sources, which are available for some, but not all, collections. It concludes with a pr…
The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography
Journal Article The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography Get access Thomas Söderqvist (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 270. £55. ISBN 978 0 754 65181 9. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 201–204, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Louise Foxcroft. The Making of Addiction: The “Use and Abuse” of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007
Historical and contemporary perspectives on children's diets: Is choice always in the patients' best interest
On 29 March 1744, Thomasin Grace, a 13-year-old girl, was the first inpatient admitted to the Northampton General Infirmary (later the Northampton General Hospital). Inpatient hospital diets, then and now, are mainstays of effective patient treatment. In the mid-18th century there were four prescribed diets at Northampton: 'full', 'milk', 'dry' and 'low'. Previous opinions concerning these four diets were unfavourable, but had not been based upon…
Sensing the South
Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893-1931
Journal Article Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893–1931 Get access Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine: The Cardiff Years, 1893–1931, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008. Pp. xxxiv + 389. £55. ISBN 978 0 7083 2174 4. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social His…
Child Patients, Hospitals and the Home in Eighteenth-Century England
This article seeks to map out some of the principal pathways to medical care used by the parents of poor children. We focus on the most formal provider of healthcare in eighteenth-century towns, the voluntary general hospitals, but we use these institutions as a prism to consider the way that the treatment of child sickness was managed more generally in five local settings. Utilising eighteenth-century hospital admissions and discharge registers …
Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929
Journal Article Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834–1929 Get access Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834–1929, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 400. £65. ISBN 978 0 230 21966 3. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Laura Kelly, Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s-1920s: Origins, Education and Careers
As readers of this journal will know, the history of British women's struggles to enter the medical profession has been well researched. Since the appearance of Moberly Bell's Storming the Citadel (1953), a steady stream of books and biographies has charted the backgrounds, educations, careers and challenges faced by women in or just attempting to enter the medical profession. Highlights include Bonner's To the Ends of the Earth (1992), but subse…
Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
Journal Article Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War. Get access Mark M. Smith. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 197. $27.95. Jonathan Reinarz Jonathan Reinarz University of Birmingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
The Story of Pain: From prayer to painkillersJoanna Bourke
In past decades, numerous histories of pain have appeared. Where does this one fit in? Unlike many previous studies, with their backdrops of science and sedation, this book's narrative focuses on t
Dennis R. Mills, Effluence and Influence: Public Health, Sewers and Politics in Lincoln, 1848–50
This book begins with a pre-history, describing Mills’s discovery of public health reports for Lincoln from 1849 and a plan to construct a sewer for the town while examining volumes in the city archives. Originally proposed by George Giles, the plan was discovered between the pages of two sanitary reports written by Giles and Robert Swan. Since sources for provincial conurbations are scarce, a decision was made to reproduce the material, includin…
A Cultural History of the Senses
Most historians are aware that histories of the senses have multiplied since the 1980s. Early inspiring studies by Alain Corbin, Constance Classen and David Howes now sit alongside multi-sensory hi
Michael Whitfield, The Dispensaries: Healthcare for the Poor Before the NHS
While few medical historians have actually ‘forgotten’ about dispensaries, as this volume’s title suggests, this is the first book published on this subject since the start of the new millennium. Michael Whitfield’s self-published volume is worth reading for this reason alone; he might even be forgiven some of the obvious oversights in the production of this volume, most notably the absence of a table of contents. On that note, this book begins w…
From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The world of taste in Early Modern Europe
Andrew Bamji, Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery
Andrew Bamji worked as a consultant physician in rheumatology and rehabilitation at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, from 1983 to 2011; he has probably researched its history for as many years. The 320-bed institution in south London was set up following the Battle of the Somme and its renowned staff, including otolaryngologist Harold Gillies, treated more than 5,000 wounded servicemen between its establishment in August 1917 and the mid-1920s. Whi…
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