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Medical History

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Volume 43 - Issue 2 - April 1999

Articles

Biomedical communication and the reaction to the Queensland childhood lead poisoning cases elsewhere in the world

Negotiating science and liberalism: medicine in nineteenth-century South Australia

Malaria in American troops in the South and Southwest Pacific in World War II

Paupers and the infirmary in mid-eighteenth-century Shrewsbury

Dietetics in medieval Islamic culture

The trade in medicinal leeches in the southern Indian Ocean in the nineteenth century

News, Notes, and Queries

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Essay Reviews

Bethlem Demystified? - Jonathan Andrews, Asa Briggs, Roy Porter, Penny Tucker and Keir Waddington, The history of Bethlem, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xiv, 752, illus., ,£150.00 (0-415-01773-4).

Edwin Chadwick Revisited - Christopher Hamlin, Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. vii, 368, £40.00, $64.95 (0-521-58363-2).

Book Reviews

Thomas H Broman, The transformation of German academic medicine 1750–1820, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. x, 209, £35.00, $54.95 (0-521-55231-1).

Jacques Tenon, Memoirs on Paris hospitals, ed. Dora B Weiner, Canton, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 1997, pp. xxxiii, 407, illus., $39.95 (0-88135-074-5).

Jean Théodoridès, Pierre Raver (1793-1867): ln demi-sièle de mÉdecine française, Paris, Éditions Louis Parente, 1997, pp. 266, illus., no price given (2-84059-011-5).

Don Finley, Mad dogs: the new rabies plague, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1998, pp. 215, $22.95 (hardback 0-89096-804-7), $14.95 (0-89096-922-5).

Vernon A Rosario (ed.), Science and homosexualities, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. ix, 308, illus., £12.99 (paperback 0-415-91502-3).

Benedict F Massell, Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: unravelling the mysteries of a dread disease, Boston, Francis A Countway Library of Medicine, 1997, distributed by Harvard University Press, pp. xi, 394, $25.00 (0-674-76877-9).

Lars Ole Andersen, Mogens H Claësson, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Anja Norbæk Sørensen, Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt, Akademisk Forlag, 1997, pp. 178, illus. (87-500-3413-8).

Ernest Smith and Beryl Cottell, A history of the Royal Dental Hospital of London and School of Dental Surgery, 1858–1985, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press, 1997, pp. xi, 177, £17.95 (0-485-11517-4).

Larry R Squire (ed.), The history of neuroscience in autobiography, vol. 1, Washington, DC, Society for Neuroscience, 1996, pp. 607, illus., $49.00 (0-916110-51-6).

Elfriede Grabner, Krankheit und Heilen. Eine Kulturgeschichte der VolksmediZin in den Ostalpen, Vienna, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. iv, 329, illus., OS 390.00 (3-7001-0730-7).

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