Skip to main content Accessibility help

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (80)

Only show open access (3)

Over 3 years (80)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Medical History
ISSN: 0025-7273

EISSN: 2048-8343

URL: /core/journals/medical-history
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 59 - October 2015

Book Review

E. C. Spary, Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xi, 418, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-03105-0.

Hoi-eun Kim, Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2014), pp. xiv, 249, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4440-3.

Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz (eds), Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014), pp. 1–281, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-448-2.

Mark Jackson, The History of Medicine: A Beginner’s Guide (London: Oneworld Publications, 2014), pp. xvii, 238, £9.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78074-520-6.

Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr (eds), Wounds in the Middle Ages (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. xv, 254, £70, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-6569-0.

Corinna Wagner, Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2013), pp. xii + 258, $39.95, £27.95, paperback, ISBN: 9780520289529.

Maimonides, On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art. A parallel Arabic–English edition by Gerrit Bos & Y. Tzvi Langermann (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2014), pp. xxvi, 123 $+$ pp. 32 (Arabic), $89.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8425-2837-5.

Hilary Marland, Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874–1920 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 288, £58.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-32813-7.

Keith Wailoo, Pain: A Political History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 296, $16.32, electronic, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1366-2.

James Kennaway (ed.), Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 256, hardback, ISBN: 13: 978-1-137-33950-8.

Erica Wald, Vice in the Barracks: Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780–1868, Cambridge Imperial & Post-Colonial Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xii, 273, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-27098-6.

Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 368, £18.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-954168-3.

Books also Received

Books Also Received

Book Review

Lukas Meier, Swiss Science, African Decolonization and the Rise of Global Health, 1940–2010 (Basle: Schwabe, 2014), pp. 323, €48.50, ISBN: 978-3-7965-3347-1.

Books also Received

Books also received

Book Review

María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919. Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014), pp. viii, 282, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-580046-496-3.

Patrick Singy, L’Usage du sexe: Lettres au docteur Tissot, auteur de l’Onanisme (1760), Essai historiographique et texte transcrit par Patrick Singy (Lausanne: Éditions BHMS, 2014), pp. 276, €39, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-9700640-8-4.

Social Media Trends in Medical History

Media Reviews

Tweets as Sources in the History of Contemporary Science - Social Media Trends in Medical History

Media Review

Health Hazards of Fashion: A Review of Bata Shoe Museum’s Exhibit, Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century

Book Review

Leonard Smith, Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838–1914 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. x, 285, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-02862-4.

Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 59 - October 2015

Book Review

Books also Received

Book Review

Books also Received

Book Review

Social Media Trends in Medical History

Media Reviews

Media Review

Book Review