Medical History: Volume 52 - Issue 3

History Matters? History's Role in Health Policy Making
Virginia Berridge
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07 December 2011, pp. 311-326
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“History matters—pass it on” was the slogan of a campaign launched in England in the summer of 2006 to raise public awareness of the huge contribution that history, heritage and the built environment make to our qualify of life. A resumé commented,
It unites the whole heritage sector, led by the National Trust, English Heritage, the Historic Houses Association and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and events will be held over the next six months at hundreds of historic locations across England and Wales. Supporters include David Starkey, Tristram Hunt, Simon Thurley, Stephen Fry, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Tony Benn and Boris Johnson.

The Origins of the Anglo-American Research Alliance and the Incidence of Civilian Neuroses in Second World War Britain
Stephen T Casper
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17 May 2012, pp. 327-346
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“Tuberculosis-threatened Children”: The Rise and Fall of a Medical Concept in Norway, c.1900–1960
Teemu Ryymin
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17 May 2012, pp. 347-364
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William Harvey's Soliloquy to the College of Physicians: Reprising Terence's Plot
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
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17 May 2012, pp. 365-386
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The Emergence of French Medical Entomology: The Influence of Universities, the Institut Pasteur and Military Physicians (1890–c.1938)
Annick Opinel
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17 May 2012, pp. 387-405
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News, Notes, and Queries
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17 May 2012, pp. 406-407
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Hugh Trevor-Roper, Europe's physician: the various life of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 438, illus., £25.00, US$35.00 (hardback 0-300-11263-7).
Brian Nance
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17 May 2012, pp. 408-409
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Susan K Morrissey, Suicide and the body politic in imperial Russia, Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xv, 384, illus., £55.00, $99.00 (hardback 978-0-521-86545-6).
Dan Healey
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17 May 2012, pp. 409-410
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Sabine Dumschat, Ausländische Mediziner im Moskauer Rußland, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des östlichen Europa, Band 67, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 2006, pp. 750, €88.00 (hardback 3-515-08512-2; 978-3-515-08512-0).
Nada Boškovska
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17 May 2012, pp. 411-412
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Virginia Smith, Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 457, illus., £16.99 (hardback 978-0-19-929779-5).
Susan North
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17 May 2012, pp. 412-413
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Simon Carter, Rise and shine: sunlight, technology and health, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2007, pp. ix, 134, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-1-84520-130-2), £19.99, $34.95 (paperback 978-1-84520-131-9). - Richard Hobday, The light revolution: health, architecture and the sun, Forres, Findhorn Press, 2006, pp. 172, £7.99 (paperback 978-1-84409-087-7).
John Welshman
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17 May 2012, pp. 413-414
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Jeremy A Greene, Prescribing by numbers: drugs and the definition of disease, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xv, 318, £33.50, $49.95 (hardback 0-8018-8477-2).
Toine Pieters
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17 May 2012, pp. 414-416
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John E Lesch, The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 364, £35.99, $59.50 (hardback 978-0-1951-8775-5).
Christoph Gradmann
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17 May 2012, pp. 416-417
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Louise Hill Curth (ed.), From physick to pharmacology: five hundred years of British drug retailing, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii, 174, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3597-0).
Viviane Quirke
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17 May 2012, p. 417
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Carsten Timmermann, Julie Anderson (eds), Devices and designs: medical technologies in historical perspective, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 284, £55.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-8644-3).
Søren Bak-Jensen
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17 May 2012, p. 418
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Keith Sykes (editor) with John Bunker (contributing editor), Anaesthesia and the practice of medicine: historical perspectives, London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007, pp. xv, 303, illus., £15.95 (paperback 978-1-85315-674-8).
Stephanie J Snow
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17 May 2012, p. 419
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Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous conditions: science and the body politic in early industrial Britain, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006, pp. xi, 276, $75.00 (hardback 978-0-7914-6679-7), $24.95 (paperback 978-0-7914-6680-3).
Stephen T Casper
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17 May 2012, pp. 420-421
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M Anne Crowther and Marguerite W Dupree, Medical lives in the age of surgical revolution, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 43, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xvi, 425, illus., £65.00, $120.00 (hardback 978-0-521-83548-9).
Derek A Dow
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17 May 2012, pp. 421-422
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Anne Borsay, Peter Shapely, Medicine, charity and mutual aid: the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950, Historical Urban Studies, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. x, 269, £60.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5148-2).
Sally Sheard
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17 May 2012, pp. 422-423
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John Iliffe, The African AIDS epidemic: a history, Oxford, James Currey, 2006, pp. ix, 214, £45.00 (hardback 0-85255-891-0), £14.95 (paperback 0-85255-890-2).
Maureen Malowany
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17 May 2012, pp. 423-424
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Volume 52 - Issue 3 - May 2008

Articles

History Matters? History's Role in Health Policy Making

The Origins of the Anglo-American Research Alliance and the Incidence of Civilian Neuroses in Second World War Britain

“Tuberculosis-threatened Children”: The Rise and Fall of a Medical Concept in Norway, c.1900–1960

William Harvey's Soliloquy to the College of Physicians: Reprising Terence's Plot

The Emergence of French Medical Entomology: The Influence of Universities, the Institut Pasteur and Military Physicians (1890–c.1938)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Europe's physician: the various life of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 438, illus., £25.00, US$35.00 (hardback 0-300-11263-7).

Susan K Morrissey, Suicide and the body politic in imperial Russia, Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xv, 384, illus., £55.00, $99.00 (hardback 978-0-521-86545-6).

Sabine Dumschat, Ausländische Mediziner im Moskauer Rußland, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des östlichen Europa, Band 67, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 2006, pp. 750, €88.00 (hardback 3-515-08512-2; 978-3-515-08512-0).

Virginia Smith, Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 457, illus., £16.99 (hardback 978-0-19-929779-5).

Jeremy A Greene, Prescribing by numbers: drugs and the definition of disease, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xv, 318, £33.50, $49.95 (hardback 0-8018-8477-2).

John E Lesch, The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 364, £35.99, $59.50 (hardback 978-0-1951-8775-5).

Louise Hill Curth (ed.), From physick to pharmacology: five hundred years of British drug retailing, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii, 174, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3597-0).

Carsten Timmermann, Julie Anderson (eds), Devices and designs: medical technologies in historical perspective, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 284, £55.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-8644-3).

Keith Sykes (editor) with John Bunker (contributing editor), Anaesthesia and the practice of medicine: historical perspectives, London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007, pp. xv, 303, illus., £15.95 (paperback 978-1-85315-674-8).

Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous conditions: science and the body politic in early industrial Britain, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006, pp. xi, 276, $75.00 (hardback 978-0-7914-6679-7), $24.95 (paperback 978-0-7914-6680-3).

M Anne Crowther and Marguerite W Dupree, Medical lives in the age of surgical revolution, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 43, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xvi, 425, illus., £65.00, $120.00 (hardback 978-0-521-83548-9).

Anne Borsay, Peter Shapely, Medicine, charity and mutual aid: the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950, Historical Urban Studies, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. x, 269, £60.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5148-2).

John Iliffe, The African AIDS epidemic: a history, Oxford, James Currey, 2006, pp. ix, 214, £45.00 (hardback 0-85255-891-0), £14.95 (paperback 0-85255-890-2).

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