Abstract

This article provides much-needed new insights into how patent medicines could enhance maternal power outside of clinical environments in the early twentieth century. While historians have considered the maternal management of domestic health, the role patent medicine products played in this complex equation of authority and expertise has yet to be the subject of sustained historical analysis. Using oral history archives, memoirs, social commentary, and advertisements, this article demonstrates how the expertise that mothers possessed was multifaceted, with powerful spatial, temporal, and even commercial connotations. This influence was especially significant at a time when clinical environments were still largely dominated by men, when the home was increasingly invaded by experts and expertise, and when dependants of wage earners were not covered by welfare provisions such as the 1911 National Insurance Act.

中文翻译：

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“她曾经为我们自己治病”：20世纪初英国的专利药物，母亲和专业知识

摘要

本文提供了关于专利药物如何在20世纪初增强临床环境之外的孕产妇力量的急需的新见解。尽管历史学家已经考虑过孕产妇对家庭健康的管理，但专利药物产品在这种复杂的权威和专门知识中所起的作用尚未成为持续的历史分析的主题。本文使用口述历史档案，回忆录，社会评论和广告，展示了母亲所拥有的专业知识是如何多方面的，具有强大的时空，商业乃至商业内涵。在临床环境仍主要由男性主导，家庭和专家越来越多地入侵房屋的时候，这种影响尤为重要。