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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 36 - Issue 2 - April 1992

Articles

The political economy of scientific medicine: Science, education and the transformation of medical practice in Sheffield, 1890–1922

William Stukeley and the gout

Buccaneering doctors

An example of meningiomatous hyperostosis from medieval Rochester

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Reviews

Jacques Gelis, History of childbirth: fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1991, pp. xvii, 326, illus., £39.50 (0-7456-0677-6).

Janet Oppenheim, Shattered nerves: doctors, patients, and depression in Victorian England, New York, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. x, 388, $27.95 (0-19-505781-3).

Book Reviews

M. Weatherall, In search of a cure: a history of pharmaceutical discovery, Oxford University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 298, illus., £19.50.

Angus Mclaren, Our own master race: eugenics in Canada, 1885–1945, Canadian Social History Series, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1990, pp. 228, (paperback, 0-7710-5544-7).

Charles E. Rosenberg, The care ofstrangers: the rise of America's hospital system, New York, Basic Books, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 437, illus., £15.50.

Luis Garcia Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, and Agustin Rubio Vela, Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 79, pt. 6, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1989, 8vo, pp. vii, 128, $15.00 (paperback).

Marina Benjamin (ed.), Science and sensibility: gender and scientific enquiry, 1780–1945, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. x, 295, £35.00 (0-631-16649-1).

Dietrich Von Engelhardt (ed.), Diabetes: its medical and cultural history:outlines, texts, bibliography, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 493, illus., DM 156.00.

Yakov Rapoport, The doctors'plot, transl. Natina Perova and Raissa Bobrova, London, Fourth Estate, 1991, pp. xii, 280, illus., £17.95 (1-872180-13-2).

David P. Adams, ‘The greatest good to the greatest number’ penicillin rationing on the American home front, 1940–1945, American University Studies, Series 9, History, vol. 93, New York, Peter Lang, 1991, pp. viii, 227, £22.00 (0-8204-1284-8).

Pat Holden and Jenny Littlewood (eds), Anthropology and nursing, London and New York, Routledge, 1991, pp. x, 228, £10.99 (paperback, 0-415-04881-8).

Stephen Ashwal (ed.), The founders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9).

John Shepherd, The Crimean doctors: a history of the British Medical Services in the Crimean War, 2 vols, Liverpool Medical Studies 7, Liverpool University Press, 1991, pp. xviii + viii, 662, illus., £32.00 (paperback, 0-85323-177-X).

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