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Volume 38 - Issue 3 - July 1994

Articles

Towards unity and autonomy: the Belgian medical profession in the nineteenth century

“The medical pundits”: doctors and indirect advertising in the lay press 1922–1927

On translating Vesalius

District nursing in England and Wales before the National Health Service: the neglected evidence

Short Article

Monoclonal antibodies: a witness seminar in Contemporary Medical History

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The archive of the Physiological Society in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Irvine Loudon, Death in childbirth: an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality 1800–1950, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. xxiii, 622, £55.00 (019-822997-6).

Nicky Leap and Billie Hunter, The midwife's tale: an oral history from handywoman to professional midwife, London, Scarlet Press, 1993, pp. xix, 215, £12.99 (91-85727-041-X).

Antony Twort, In focus, out of step: a biography of Frederick William Twort, F.R.S. 1877–1950, Stroud, Glos., Alan Sutton, 1993, pp. xi, 340, illus., £25.00 (0-7509-0327-9).

Naomi Pfeffer, The stork and the syringe: a political history of reproductive medicine, Feminist Perspectives series, Cambridge, Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers, 1993, pp. vii, 235, £45 (hardback 0-7456-9821-3), £12.95 (paperback 0-7456-1187-7).

Robert Bud, The uses of life: a history of biotechnology, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xiii, 299, illus., £30.00, $49.95 (0-521-38240-8).

Helen Bush and Marek Zvelebil (eds), Health in past societies: biocultural interpretations of human skeletal remains in archaeological contexts, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 567, Oxford, Tempus Reparatum, 1991, pp. viii, 145, £20.00, illus. (0-86054-716-7).

Dan W. Brock, Life and death: philosophical essays in biomedical ethics, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xi, 435, £40.00, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-41785-6), £13.95, $18.95 (paperback 0-521-42833-5).

Roselyne Rey, History of pain, translated by Louise Elliott Wallace and by J. A. and S. W. Cadden, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 1993, pp. 409, FF198.00 (paperback 2-7071-2256-4).

Charlotte MacKenzie, Psychiatry for the rich: a history of Ticehirst private asylum, 1792–1917, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 234, £45.00 (0-415-08891-7).

Saul Jarcho, Quinine's predecessor: Francesco Torti and the early history of cinchona, The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. xviii, 354, illus., £45.00 (0-8018-4466-5).

Evan M. Melhado and Tore Frängsmyr (eds), Enlightenment science in the Romantic era: the chemistry of Berzelius and its cultural setting, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xiv, 246, £30.00, $49.95 (0-521-41775-9).

Eugene Perry Link, The social ideas of American physicians (1776–1976): studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine, Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, and London and Toronto, Associated University Presses, 1993, pp. 317, illus., £40.00 (0-945636-34-2).

Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scottish medical societies, 1731–1939: their history and records, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 237, £37.50 (0-7486-0390-5).

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