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Volume 42 - Issue 4 - October 1998

Articles

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

Protecting the workers: The medical board and the asbestos industry, 1930s–1960s

Dr John Thomas Arlidge and Victorian occupational medicine

Asylum provision and the East India Company in the nineteenth century

Illustrtions from the Wellcome Institute Library: Images of Bodily Transformation

Obituary

John Walker Barber-Lomax 1914–1998

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie, Nicholas Hervey, Masters of Bedlam: the transformation of the mad-doctoring trade, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. x, 363, illus., £23.00, $35.00 (0-691-03411-7).

John M Eyler, Sir Arthur Newsholme and state medicine, 1885–1935, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xviii, 422, illus., £45.00, $64.95 (0-521-48186-4).

David J Rothman, Beginnings count: the technological imperative in American health care, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. xii, 189, £24.95 (0-19-511118-4).

Wolfgang U Eckart, Christoph Gradmann (eds), Die Medizin und der Erste Weltkrieg, Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus, 1996, pp. 377, DM 58.00 (3-8255-0066-7).

Manfred Berg and Geoffrey Cocks (eds), Medicine and modernity: public health and medical care in nineteenth and twentieth century Germany, Washington, DC, German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. vii, 242, £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-56411-5).

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt (eds), Illness and healing alternatives in western Europe, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xi, 272, £50.00 (0-415-13581-8).

Marcos Cueto, El regreso de las epidemias. Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX, Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1997, pp. 256, illus., $25.00 (in the Americas), £25.00 (rest of the world) (9972-51-011-5).

Claudia Clark, Radium girls: women and industrial health reform, 1910–1935, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. xii, 289, $49.95 (hardback 0-8078-2331-7), $17.95 (paperback 0-8078-4640-6).

Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin (eds), Accidents in history: injuries, fatalities and social relations, Clio Medica 41, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1997, pp. x, 273, Hfl. 40.00, $25.00 (paperback 90-420-0093).

Nicole Hahn Rafter, Creating born criminals, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1997, pp. xi, 284, illus., $36.95 (0-252-02237-8).

Robert S Robins and Jerrold M Post, Political paranoia: the psychopolitics of hatred, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. x, 366, £20.00 (0-300-07027-6).

Matthias Perleth, Historical aspects of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease), Medizin in Entwicklungsländern, Band 43, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 171, illus., £22.00 (3-631-31063-3).

Allan Ingram (ed.), Voices of madness: four pamphlets, 1683–1796, Thrupp, Glos., Sutton Publishing, 1997, pp. xxii, 154, £18.99 (0-7509-1210-3).

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Volume 42 - Issue 4 - October 1998

Articles

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News, Notes, and Queries

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