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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 51 - 01 October 2007

Essay Review

The Destabilization of Domestic Psychiatry

Articles

Problematizations and Path Dependency: HIV/AIDS Policies in Denmark and Sweden

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Illustrations from the Wellcome Library

A Persian Anatomical Image in a non-Muslim Manuscript from Gujarat

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Book Reviews

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison, and Michael Worboys, Fractured states: smallpox, public health and vaccination policy in British India, 1800–1947, New Perspectives in South Asian History, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 2005, pp. x, 264, £24.95, $35.00, Rs 630.00 (hardback 81-250-2866-8).

Essay Review

Towards a History of Medical Missions

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News, Notes, and Queries

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Simon Szreter, Health and wealth: studies in history and policy, Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2005, pp. ix, 506, £50.00 (hardback 1-58046-198-0).

John Henderson, The Renaissance hospital: healing the body and healing the soul, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xxxiv, 458, illus., £35.00 (hardback 0-300-10995-4).

Essay Review

Basle, Printing, and the Early Modern Intellectual World

Book Reviews

Jonathan Simon, Chemistry, pharmacy and revolution in France, 1777–1809, Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945, Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. vi, 189, £45.00 (hardback 0-7546-5044-8).

Guenter B Risse, New medical challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 78, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2005, pp. vi, 386, €80.00, $108.00 (hardback 90-420-1814-3).

Mark Jackson, Allergy: the history of a modern malady, London, Reaktion Books, 2006, pp. 288, illus., £25.00 (hardback 1-86189-271-3).

Gianna Pomata and Nancy G Siraisi (eds), Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2005, pp. viii, 490, £32.95, $50.00 (hardback 0-262-16229-6).

Lynette A Jackson, Surfacing up: psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2006, pp. xxi, 230, £31.50, $55.00 (hardback 0-8014-4310-5); £14.50, $24.95 (paperback 0-8014-8940-7).

Eric J Engstrom, Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany: a history of psychiatric practice, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 295, £29.95, $49.95 (hardback 0-8014-4195-1).

Helen M Dingwall, ‘A famous and flourishing society’: the history of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1505–2005, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 336, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-7486-1567-9).

Bettina Wahrig and Werner Sohn (eds), Zwischen Aufklärung, Policey und Verwaltung, zur Genese des Medizinalwesens (1750–1850), Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Band 102, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, pp. 212, €59.00 (hardback 3-447-04822-0).

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Volume 51 - 01 October 2007

Essay Review

Articles

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library

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Book Reviews

Essay Review

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Essay Review

Book Reviews