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Volume 51 - Issue 4 - 01 October 2007

Articles

“This Racial Menace”?: Public Health, Venereal Disease and Maori in New Zealand, 1930–1947

John Locke on Respiration

George S V Wills and the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy: A Chapter in Pharmaceutical Education in Great Britain

Practice versus Theory: Medieval Materia Medica according to the Cairo Genizah

Texts and Documents

The Benefits of Psychological Surgery: John Scoffern's Satire on Isaac Baker Brown

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Towards a History of Medical Missions

Book Reviews

John Henderson, The Renaissance hospital: healing the body and healing the soul, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xxxiv, 458, illus., £35.00 (hardback 0-300-10995-4).

Jonathan Simon, Chemistry, pharmacy and revolution in France, 1777–1809, Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945, Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. vi, 189, £45.00 (hardback 0-7546-5044-8).

Eric J Engstrom, Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany: a history of psychiatric practice, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 295, £29.95, $49.95 (hardback 0-8014-4195-1).

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Expunging variola: the control and eradication of smallpox in India, 1947–1977, New Perspectives in South Asian History, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2006, pp. xv, 326, Rs 750.00 (hardback 81-250-3018-2).

Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds), The practice of reform in health, medicine, and science, 1500–2000: essays for Charles Webster, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. xv, 376 (hardback 0-7546-3933-9).

James B Waldram, D Ann Herring, and T Kue Young, Aboriginal health in Canada: historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives, second edition, University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. xii, 367, £45.00, $70.00 (hardback 978-0-8020-8792-8); £20.00, $29.95 (paperback 978-0-8020-8579-8).

Lise Renaud with Caroline Bouchard, La santé s'affiche au Québec: plus de 100 ans d'histoire, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005, pp. 257, illus., Can. $33.15 (paperback 2-7605-1344-0).

Robin Haines, Doctors at sea: emigrant voyages to colonial Australia, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. x, 248, illus., £45.00 (hardback 1-4039-8685-1).

Thomas Dormandy, The worst of evils: the fight against pain, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xi, 547, illus., £19.99 (hardback 0-300-11322-6).

Anne Carol, Les médecins et la mort: XIXe–XXesiècle, Collection Historique, Paris, Aubier, 2004, pp. 335, €23.00 (paperback 2-70-072331-7).

José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Agustí Nieto-Galan (eds), Chemistry, medicine, and crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1853) and his times, Sagamore Beach, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2006, pp. xxv, 306, illus., $52.00 (hardback 0-88135-275-6).

Kay Peter Jankrift, Krankheit und Heilkunde im Mittelalter, Geschichte Kompakt, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003, pp. ix, 148, SFr 25.90, €14.90 (paperback 3-534-15481-9).

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Volume 51 - Issue 4 - 01 October 2007

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News, Notes, and Queries

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Book Reviews