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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
Roy Porter
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16 November 2012, pp. 441-442
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A medical “dead end” job? The recruitment and career progression of the Edwardian school medical officer
J David Hirst
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16 November 2012, pp. 443-460
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Hospital Saturday, workplace collections and issues in late nineteenth-century hospital funding
Steven Cherry
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16 November 2012, pp. 461-488
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Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine
Kan-Wen Ma
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16 November 2012, pp. 489-512
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Fenland ague in the nineteenth century
Alice Nicholls
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16 November 2012, pp. 513-530
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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library: Who was Elizabeth Okeover?
Richard Aspin
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16 November 2012, pp. 531-540
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News, Notes, and Queries
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Renaissance Anatomy - Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book I: The bones and cartilages, a translation of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by William Frank Richardson, in collaboration with John Burd Carman, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1998, pp. lxii, 416, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-73-0). - Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book II: The ligaments and muscles, a translation of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1999, pp. xxix, 490, illus., $250 (0-930405-75-7). Orders to Norman Publishing, 720 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-2502, USA. Tel.: (415) 781-6402; Fax: (415) 781-5507; email: [email protected] - Roger French, Dissection and vivisection in the European Renaissance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. ix, 289, illus., £49.50 (hardback 1-85928-361-6).
Vivian Nutton
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16 November 2012, pp. 544-547
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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).
Mary Lindemann
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16 November 2012, pp. 548-549
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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).
Katharine Park
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16 November 2012, pp. 549-551
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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).
Vivian Nutton
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16 November 2012, pp. 551-552
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Andreas-Holger Maehle, Drugs on trial: experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century, Clio Medica 53, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1999, pp. 378, £65.00, $110.00, Hfl. 200.00 (hardback 90420-0793-1), £18.00, $30.50, Hfl. 55.00 (paperback 90-420-0783-4).
M P Earles
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16 November 2012, pp. 552-553
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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).
Roy Porter
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16 November 2012, pp. 553-554
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Heather Bell, Frontiers of medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899–1940, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999, £40 (0-19-820749-2).
Helen J Power
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16 November 2012, pp. 554-555
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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).
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
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16 November 2012, pp. 555-557
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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).
John Iliffe
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16 November 2012, p. 557
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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).
Peter Bartlett
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16 November 2012, pp. 557-558
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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).
David Zuck
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16 November 2012, pp. 558-559
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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).
Ruth Rogaski
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16 November 2012, pp. 559-561
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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).
Ann F La Berge
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16 November 2012, pp. 561-562
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