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Medical History

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Volume 43 - Issue 4 - October 1999

Articles

A tale of two sciences: Bedside and bench in twentieth-century Britain

Hypoadrenia or “a bit of Addison's disease”

The diary of Thomas Giordani Wright: Apprentice doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1824–29

Medical practice and the law in the conflict between traditional belief and empirical evidence: Post-mortem caesarean section in the nineteenth century

Short Article

One hundred years of aspirin

Comment

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

Rejoinder

Obituary

Harold Richard Denham 1917–1999

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Jacalyn Duffin, To see with a better eve: a life of R T H Laennec, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. xvii, 453, illus., £35.00, $49.50 (0-691-03708-6).

Nancy Tomes, The gospel of germs: men, women, and the microbe in American life, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. xv, 351, illus., £19.95 (0-674-35707-8).

W Bruce Fye, American cardiology: the history of a specialty and its college, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. xvi, 489, illus., $24.95 (0-8018-5292-7).

Eric T DeanJr,, Shook over hell: posttraumatic stress, Vietnam, and the civil war, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. xi, 315, illus., £23.50 (0-674-80651-4).

Ira M Rutkow, American surgery: an illustrated history, Philadelphia, LippincottRaven, 1998, pp. xvi, 638, illus., $90.50 (0-316-76352-7).

N H Naqvi and M D Blaufox, Blood pressure measurement: an illustrated history, New York and London, Parthenon Publishing, 1998, pp. xiii, 156, illus., £38.00, $65.00 (1-85070-013-3).

John Krige and Dominique Pestre (eds), Science in the twentieth century, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. xxxv, 941, illus., £80.00, $120.00 (90-5702-172-2).

Volker Hess (ed.), Normierung der Gesundheit. Messende Verfahren der Medizin als kulturelle Praktik um 1900, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften Heft 82, Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1997, pp. 226, illus., DM 69.00 (3-7868-4082-2).

Mathew Thomson, The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain c. 1870–1959, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. ix, 351, £48.00 (0-19-820692-5).

Thomas Schnalke, Medizin im Brief. Der stddtische Arzt des 18. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beihefte 37, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1997, pp. 271, illus., DM/SFr 88.00 (3-515-06725-6).

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Volume 43 - Issue 4 - October 1999

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