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Medical History

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Volume 40 - Issue 1 - January 1996

Articles

Mobility and selection in Scottish university medical education, 1858–1886

Towards a history of infective endocarditis

Bad habits and pernicious results: Thumb sucking and the discipline of late-nineteenth-century paediatrics

Growing old in the city: Public health and the elderly in Leicester, 1948–74

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The Hodgkin family papers

News, Notes, and Queries

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Book Reviews

Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, The facts of life: the creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650–1950, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995, pp. xii, 415, illus., £19.95 (0-300-06221-4).

Joan Cadden, Meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: medicine, science, and culture, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xii, 310, illus., £35.00, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-34363-1), £14.95, $18.95 (paperback 0-521-48378-6).

Hugo Kupferschmidt, Die Epidemiologie der Pest. Der Konzeptwandel in der Erforschung der Infektionsketten seit der Entdeckung des Pesterregers im Jahre 1894, Gesnerus Supplement No. 43, Aarau, Verlag Sauerlander, 1993, pp. xiv, 222, SwFr 36.00 (3-7941-3722-1).

Charles F Clark, AIDS and the arrows of pestilence, Golden, Colorado, Fulcrum Publishing, 1994, pp. xvii, 171, illus., $23.95 (1-55591-146-3).

Kurt Danziger, Constructing the subject: Historical origins of psychological research, Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1994 (hardback edition first published 1990), £12.95, $16.95 (paperback 0-521-46785-3).

Mark S Micale, Approaching hysteria: Disease and its interpretations, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. xii, 327, £24.95, $29.95 (0-691-03717-5).

The puzzle of pain, transl. Fideline A Djité-Bruce, East Roseville, NSW, Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1994, pp. ix, 165, illus., £43.00, $75.00 (976-8097-89-2).

Gabrielle Hatfield, Country remedies: traditional East Anglian plant remedies in the twentieth century, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1994, pp. xi, 148, £16.95 (0-85115-563-4).

Dick Maurice, The Marlborough doctors: six generations of one family's medical practice since 1792, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1994, pp. 99, illus., £12.99 (0-7509-0831-9).

Shula Marks, Divided sisterhood: race, class and gender in the South African nursing profession, Basingstoke, St Martin's Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 306, £40.00 (0-312-10643-2).

Russell G Smith, Medical discipline: the professional conduct jurisdiction of the General Medical Council, 1858–1990, Oxford Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. xlvi, 397, £40.00 (0-19-825795-3).

Ellen Singer More and Maureen A Milligan (eds), The empathic practitioner: empathy, gender and medicine, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. vii, 266, $45.00 (hardback 0-8135-2118-1), $18.00 (paperback 0-8135-2119-X).

Mary Bruins Allison, Doctor Mary in Arabia, ed. Sandra Shaw, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994, pp. xxxiv, 329, illus., $42.50 (hardback 0-292-70454-2), $17.95 (paperback 0-292-70456-9).

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