Burnham, JC. 2011. Transnational History of Medicine after 1950: Framing and Interrogation from Psychiatric Journals. MEDICAL HISTORY 55 (1): 3-26

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Burnham, JC. 2011. Transnational History of Medicine after 1950: Framing and 
Interrogation from Psychiatric Journals. MEDICAL HISTORY 55 (1): 3-26..

Author Full Name(s): Burnham, John C.
Language: English
Document Type: Article

Author Keywords: Citation Analysis; Communication; Dissemination; English 
Language; Globalisation; Information; Internationality; Medical Publications; 
Psychiatry; Transnationalisation
KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT FACTOR; WORLD

Abstract: Communication amongst medical specialists helps display the tensions 
between localism and transnationalisation. Some quantitative sampling of 
psychiatric journals provides one framework for understanding the history of 
psychiatry and, to some extent, the history of medicine in general in the 
twentieth century. After World War H, extreme national isolation of psychiatric 
communities gave way to substantial transnationalisation, especially in the 
1980s, when a remarkable switch to English-language communication became 
obvious. Various psychiatric communities used the new universal language, not 
so much as victims of Americanisation, as to gain general professional 
recognition and to participate in and adapt to modernisation.

Addresses: Ohio State Univ, Dept Hist, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
Reprint Address: Burnham, JC, Ohio State Univ, Dept Hist, 106 Dulles Hall,230 W 
17th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.
E-mail Address: bumham.2 at osu.edu
ISSN: 0025-7273
fulltext: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037212/