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Medical History

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Volume 46 - Issue 4 - October 2002

Articles

Medical police and the history of public health

The Lunacy Commissioners and the East London Guardians, 1845–1867

‘That senescence itself is an illness’: A transitional medical concept of age and ageing in the eighteenth century

The St Andrews Institute for clinical research: an early experiment in collaboration

Illutrations from the Wellcome Library: A J E Terzi and L W Sambon: early Italian influences on Patrick Manson's “Tropical medicine”, entomology, and the art of entomological illustration in London

Obituary

Roger French(12 April 1938–14 May 2002)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Book Reviews

Maria Michela Sassi, The science of man in ancient Greece, trans. Paul Tucker, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. xxx, 224, illus., £21.50, $34.00 (hardback 0-226-73530-3).

Hildegard of Bingen, On natural philosophy and medicine: selections from Cause et cure, translated with introduction, notes and interpretive essay by Margret Berger, Library of Medieval Women series, Cambridge, D S Brewer, 1999, pp. xvii, 166, £12.95, $19.95 (paperback 0-85991-551-4).

Doreen Evenden, The midwives of seventeenth-century London, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xvii, 260, £40.00, $64.95 (hardback 0-521-66107-2).

Renate Wilson, Pious traders in medicine: a German pharmaceutical network in eighteenth-century North America, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, pp. xiv, 258, illus., $37.50 (hardback 0-271-02052-0).

René Sigrist, Vincent Barras, Marc Ratcliff, Louis Jurine, chirurgien et naturaliste (1751–1819), Bibliothèque d'Histoire des Sciences 2, Chene-Bourg, Editions Medecine et Hygiène, Département livre Georg, 1999, pp. 494, illus., SFr 50.00 (paperback 2-8257-0640-X).

Silvano Montaldo, Medici e società Bartolomeo Sella nel Piemonte dell'ottocento, publication of Comitato di Torini dell'Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiana, Turin, Carocci Editore, 1998, pp. 360 (paperback 88430-1091-3).

Derek A Dow, Maori health and government policy, 1840–1940, Wellington, New Zealand, Victoria University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1999, pp. 280, illus., NZ$39.95 (paperback 0-86473-366-6).

Felix Driver, Geography militant: cultures of exploration and empire, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000, pp. viii, 258, illus., £16.99 (paperback 0-631-20112-2).

Charles G Roland, Long night&s journey into day: prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941–1945, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2001, pp. xxviii, illus., $28.95 (paperback 0-88920-362-8).

Jeff Wheelwright, The irritable heart: the medical mystery of the Gulf War, New York and London, W W Norton, 2001, pp. 427, £21.00 (hardback 0-393-01956-X).

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Volume 46 - Issue 4 - October 2002

Articles

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