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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 43 - 1999

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Chapter 1: Representing the Body: The Visual Culture of Renaissance Anatomy

Dietetics in medieval Islamic culture

Short Article

One hundred years of aspirin

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library The Quest for Hickman

Shaping the medical market: on the construction of quackery and folk medicine in Dutch historiography

The trade in medicinal leeches in the southern Indian Ocean in the nineteenth century

Chapter 2: Anatomical Fugitive Sheets: Printing, Prints and the Spread of Anatomy in the Sixteenth Century

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Too little, too late? The home office and the asbestos industry regulations, 1931: a reply

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Women's medicine, women's culture: abortion and fortune-telling in early twentieth-century Germany and The Netherlands

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Edward Jenner's unpublished cowpox inquiry and the Royal Society: Everard Home's report to Sir Joseph Banks

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Chapter 3: The Birth of an Anatomical Icon

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Rejoinder

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Chapter 4: Knowe Thyself: The Uses and Functions of Anatomical Images

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The Legacy of Mirko Grmek's Historical Studies of Claude Bernard - Mirko D Gnmek, Le legs de Claude Bernard, Penser la médecine, Paris, Fayard, 1997, pp. 439, FF 160.00 (2-213-60014-7).

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Naomi Rogers, An alternative path: the making and remaking ofHahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1998, pp. xi, 348, illus., $50.00 (hardback 0-8135-2535-7), $20.00 (paperback 0-8135-2536-5).

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Bethlem Demystified? - Jonathan Andrews, Asa Briggs, Roy Porter, Penny Tucker and Keir Waddington, The history of Bethlem, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xiv, 752, illus., ,£150.00 (0-415-01773-4).

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Harold Richard Denham 1917–1999

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