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Volume 39 - Issue 3 - July 1995

Articles

Mr Troutbeck as the surgeon's friend: The coroner and the doctors—an Edwardian comedy

Pancreatic Organotherapy for Diabetes, 1889–1921

Questions of competence: The midwife debate in The Netherlands in the early twentieth century

Socialist proposals for health reform in inter-war Britain: The case of Somerville Hastings

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The archive of the Health Visitors' Association in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Reviews

The Market for Medicine - Anne Digby, Making a medical living: doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720–1911, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Times, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xix, 348, Illus., £40.00, $64.95 (0-521-34526-X).

Medicine and empire. Essay review - Mark Harrison, Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine, 1859–1914, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 324, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-521-44127-7), £19.95 (paperback 0-521-46688-1).

Sensibility reconsidered - G J Barker-Benfield, The culture of sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth century Britain, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. xxxiv, 520, illus., $49.95 (0-226-03713-4).

Book Reviews

Paul Crook, Darwinism, war and history: the debate over the biology of war from the –Origin of species— to the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xii, 306, £45.00, $64.95 (hardback 0-521-44465-9), £18.95, $27.95 (paperback 0-5214 6645-8).

André Pichot, Histoire de la notion de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 1993, pp. 973, FF 89.00 (2-07-073136-7).

Lara V Marks, Model mothers: Jewish mothers and maternity provision in east London, 1870–1939, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. xxi, 320, £35.00 (0-19-820454-X).

J B Lyons, Surgeon Major Parke's African joumney 1887–89, Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994, pp. xiv, 281, £19.95 (1874675-20-1).

Frederic W Hafferty and John B McKinlay (eds), The changing medical profession: an international perspective, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. x, 261, £35.00 (0-19-507592-7).

Sheila M Rothman, Living in the shadow of death: tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in American history, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xi, 319, £19.95 (0465-03002-5).

Allan Everett Marble, Surgeons, smallpox, and the poor: a history of medicine and social conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749–1799, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993, pp. xvi, 356, £33.95 (0-7735-0988-7).

H C Erik Midelfort, Mad princes of renaissance Germany, Charlottesville and London, University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. xii, 204, illus., $22.95 (0-8139-1500-7).

Troels Kardel (ed.), Steno on muscles, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 84, pt 1, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1994, pp. xii, 252, illus., $25.00 (0-87169-841-2).

Helen Jones, Health and society in twentieth-century Britain, Themes in British Social History series, Harlow, Longman Higher Education, 1994, pp. x, 204, £9.99 (paperback 0-582-00459-4).

Kenneth J Carpenter, Protein and energy: a study of changing ideas in nutrition, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 280, illus., £30.00, $39.95 (0521-45209-0).

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Volume 39 - Issue 3 - July 1995

Articles

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