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Volume 54 - Issue 4 - October 2010

Articles

Diagnosing Homicidal Mania: Forensic Psychiatry and the Purposeless Murder

Specialization without the Hospital: The Case of British Sports Medicine

“Open the Other Eye”: Payment, Civic Duty and Hospital Contributory Schemes in Bristol, c. 1927–1948

“Fascinating Scalpel-wielders and Fair Dissectors”: Women's Experience of Irish Medical Education, c. 1880s–1920s

Short Articles

The Truth about Our Bones: William Cheselden's Osteographia

Clifford Dobell and the Making of Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Ian Mortimer, The dying and the doctors: the medical revolution in seventeenth-century England, Royal Historical Society Studies in History, Woodbridge and New York, Boydell Press, 2009, pp. xiv, 232, £50.00, $95.00 (hardback 978-08-619-3302-0).

John Harley Warner, James M Edmonson, Dissection: photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine: 1880–1930, New York, Blast Books, 2009, pp. 208, illus., $50.00 (hardback 978-0-922-33342).

Ilana Löwy, Preventive strikes: women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. xi, 328, illus., £26.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9364-3).

Jacqueline H Wolf, Deliver me from pain: anesthesia and birth in America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2009, pp. xiii, 277, £26.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9110-6).

Christopher Hamlin, Cholera: the biography, Biographies of Disease Series, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 223, £12.99, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-19-954624-4).

Michael Holland, Geoffrey Gill, Sean Burrell (eds), Cholera and conflict: 19th century cholera in Britain and its social consequences, Leeds, Medical Museum Publishing, 2009, pp. viii, 377, £10.00 (hardback 978-1-897849-09-5).

Andrew Scull, Hysteria: the biography, Biographies of Disease Series, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 223, £12.99, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-19-956096-7).

Mariola Espinosa, Epidemic invasions: yellow fever and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878–1930, University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. x, 189, $22.50, £15.50 (paperback 978-0-226-21812-0)

Teemu Sakari Ryymin, Smitte, språk og kultur: tuberkulosearbeidet i Finnmark, Oslo, Scandinavian Academic Press/Spartacus Forlag, 2009, pp. 368, Kr 298.00 (paperback 978-82-304-0044-9).

Claudia Stein, Negotiating the French pox in early modern Germany, The History of Medicine in Context series, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, pp. xi, 241, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-6008-8).

Helen King and Véronique Dasen, La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Lausanne, BHMS, 2008, pp. ix, 126, €18.66, SwFr 28.00 (paperback 978-2-9700536-6-8).

Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Astro-medicine: astrology and medicine, East and West, Micrologus’ Library, 25, Florence, Sismel–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008, pp. xii, 280, €46.00 (paperback 978-88-8450-300-8).

Alex McKay, Their footprints remain: biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier, International Institute for Asian Studies series, Amsterdam University Press, 2007, pp. 312, €47.00 (paperback 978-90-5356-518-6)

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