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Volume 51 - Issue 1 - 01 January 2007

Editorial

Half a Century of Medical History

Articles

The Practice of Practical Education: Male Students and Female Apprentices in the Lying-in Hospital of Göttingen University, 1792–1815

Medicine, Race and the General Good: The Career of Thomas N G Te Water (1857–1926), South African Doctor and Medical Politician

Institutional Care for the Mentally Defective, 1914–1948: Diversity as a Response to Individual Needs and an Indication of Lack of Policy Coherence

Deeds and Words in the Suffrage Military Hospital in Endell Street

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

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Book Reviews

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).

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).

Virginia Berridge (ed.), Making health policy: networks in research and policy after 1945, Clio Medica 75, The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp. vi, 338, €75.00, $94.00 (hardback 90-420-1824-0).

Jacalyn Duffin, Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history, 2002 Joanne Goodman Lectures, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. xvii, 234, £35.00, $55.00 (hardback 0-8020-3868-9); £29.95, $27.50 (paperback 0-8020-3805-0).

Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen (eds), Medieval Chinese medicine: the Dunhuang medical manuscripts, Needham Research Institute series, London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. xxv, 450, illus., £90.00, $115.00 (0-415-34295-3).

Manuela Tecusan, The fragments of the Methodists: Methodism outside Soranus. Volume one: Text and translation, Leiden, Brill, 2004, pp. ix, 813, €149.00, $197.00 (hardback 90-04-12451-9).

Florian Steger, Asklepiosmedizin: medizinischer Alltag in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Medizin Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beihefte 22, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2004, pp. 256, €38.00 (paperback 3-515-08415-0).

Selma Tibi, The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5, Leiden and London, Brill, 2006, pp. xiv, 314, €93.00, $133.00 (hardback 90-04-0414696-2).

Andrew T Crislip, From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in late Antiquity, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2005, pp. x, 235, £33.50, $70.00 (hardback 0-472-11474-3).

Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the curious: looking back at early English museums, Perspectives on Collecting series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. xii, 297, £47.50, $94.95 (hardback 0-7546-0506-X).

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Volume 51 - Issue 1 - 01 January 2007

Editorial

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