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Volume 44 - Issue 4 - October 2000

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The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

A medical “dead end” job? The recruitment and career progression of the Edwardian school medical officer

Hospital Saturday, workplace collections and issues in late nineteenth-century hospital funding

Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine

Fenland ague in the nineteenth century

Illustrations from the Wellcome Library: Who was Elizabeth Okeover?

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H C Erik Midelfort, A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany, Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 438, illus., £35.00, $55.00 (hardback 0-8047-3334-1).

David Gentilcore, Healers and healing in early modern Italy, Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe, Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. xiii, 240, illus., £45.00 (0-7190-4199-6).

Jonathan Woolfson, Padua and the Tudors: English students in Italy, 1485–1603, Cambridge, James Clarke, 1999, pp. xii, 322, £40.00 (0-2276-7942-3).

Richard Allen, David Hartley on human nature, SUNY series in the Philosophy of Psychology, State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. xxiv, 469, $24.95 (paperback 0-79144234-9).

Heather Bell, Frontiers of medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899–1940, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999, £40 (0-19-820749-2).

Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (eds), Race, science and medicine, 1700–1960, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1999, pp. ix, 300, £55.00 (0-415-18152-6).

Jonathan Sadowsky, Imperial Bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria, Medicine and Society 10, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xi, 169, $45.00 (hardback 0-520-216164), $16.95 (paperback 0-520-21617-2).

Leonard D Smith, ‘Cure, comfort and safe custody’: public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 310, illus., £55.00 (0-7185-0094-6).

Donald Caton, What a blessing she had chloroform: the medical and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present, London, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 288, £20.00 (0-300-07597-9).

Frank Dikötter, Imperfect conceptions: medical knowledge, birth defects, and eugenics in China, London, C Hurst, 1998, pp. x, 226, illus., £25.00 (1-85065-331-3).

Nina Rattner Gelbart, The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1998, pp. xi, 347, illus., $35.00 (0-520-21036-0).

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