Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Table of Contents - Volume 53 - Issue 02 - April 2009

Articles

The Sources of Eucharius Rösslin's ‘Rosegarden for Pregnant Women and Midwives’ (1513)

 
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Monica H Green

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 167 - 192

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Smallpox in Africa during Colonial Rule

 
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William H Schneider

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 193 - 227

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000363X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Priority, Invisibility and Eradication: The History of Smallpox and the Brazilian Public Health Agenda

 
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Gilberto Hochman

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 229 - 252

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000020X (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

 

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Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière's Mechanical Leeches (1817–1825): An Early Response in the Netherlands to a Shortage of Leeches

 
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Teunis Willem Van Heiningen

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 253 - 270

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003653 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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The Trials and Tribulations of Two Historians: Adjudicating Responsibility for Pollution and Personal Harm

 
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David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 271 - 292

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003665 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

 
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Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 293 - 293

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003677 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Book Reviews

Marius Turda and Paul J Weindling (eds), Blood and homeland: eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940, Budapest and New York, Central European University Press, 2007, pp. ix, 467, £13.95 (paperback 978-963-7326-81-3).

 
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Patrick Zylberman

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 294 - 295

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003689 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Leslie J Reagan, Nancy Tomes and Paula A Treichler (eds), Medicine's moving pictures: medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television, Rochester Series in Medical History, University of Rochester Press, 2007, pp. ix, 343, £50.00, $85.00 (hardback 978-1-58046-234-1).

 
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Timothy Boon

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 295 - 297

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003690 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF): Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Part 1.2 Cultura e filosofia (Galenus–Isocrates), 2 vols, Florence, Leo S Olschki on behalf of the Accademia toscana di Scienze e Lettere “La Colombaria”, Union Académique Internationale, Unione Accademica Nazionale, 2008, total pp. 1005, €175.00 (paperback ISBN 978-88-222-5791-8, ISSN 1122-0872).

 
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Vivian Nutton

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 297 - 298

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003707 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Michelle T Moran, Colonizing leprosy: imperialism and the politics of public health in the United States, Studies in Social Medicine, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, pp. xiii, 281, $21.95 (paperback 978-0-8078-5839-4).

 
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John Manton

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 298 - 299

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003719 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Rod Edmond, Leprosy and empire: a medical and cultural history, Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. x, 255, illus., £50.00 (hardback 978-0-521-86584-5).

 
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Michelle T Moran

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 299 - 300

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003720 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Priscilla Wald, Contagious: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative, Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2008, pp. xi, 373, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-8223-4128-4); £13.99 (paperback 978-0-8223-4153-6).

 
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Richard McKay

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 300 - 301

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003732 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Amy L Fairchild, Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove, Searching eyes: privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America, Berkeley, California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, no. 18, Los Angeles, University of California Press; New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2007, pp. xxiv, 342, £11.95 (paperback 978-0-520-25325-4).

 
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Edward Higgs

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 301 - 302

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003744 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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David P Cline, Creating choice: a community responds to the need for abortion and birth control, 1961–1973, Palgrave Studies in Oral History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 290, £14.99 (paperback 1-4039-6814-4).

 
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Gayle Davis

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 303 - 304

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003756 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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David M Turner and Kevin Stagg (eds), Social histories of disability and deformity, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 25, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. xiv, 198, £65.00 (hardback 978-0-415-36098-2).

 
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Wendy Gagen

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 304 - 305

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John Welshman and Jan Walmsley (eds), Community care in perspective: care, control and citizenship, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xxi, 278, £55.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-9265-9), £19.99 (paperback 978-1-4039-9266-6).

 
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Anne Borsay

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 305 - 306

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Werner Troesken, The great lead water pipe disaster, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2007, pp. 318, £19.95, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-262-20167-4), £10.95, $15.95 (paperback 978-0-262-70125-9).

 
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Vanessa Taylor

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 306 - 307

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003781 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Marjaana Niemi, Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940, Historical Urban Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xiii, 228, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-0334-4).

 
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Sam Willner

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 307 - 308

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Steven J Peitzman, Dropsy, dialysis, transplant: a short history of failing kidneys, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xxi, 213, £16.50, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-8018-8734-5).

 
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W F Bynum

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 308 - 310

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Gino L Di Mitri, Storia biomedica del tarantismo nel XVIII secolo, Florence, Leo S Olschki, 2006, pp. xxiii, 322, €34.00 (paperback 88-222-5508-9).

 
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Concetta Pennuto

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 310 - 311

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003811 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Roberta Bivins and John V Pickstone (eds), Medicine, madness and social history: essays in honour of Roy Porter, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 295, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52549-8).

 
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Andrew Hull

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 311 - 312

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Peter McRorie Higgins, Punish or treat? Medical care in English prisons 1770–1850, Victoria, BC, Trafford Publishing, 2007, pp. ix, 283, illus., £14.99, €21.41, $26.07 (paperback 1-4251-0153-4).

 
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Bill Forsythe

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 312 - 313

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Peter Jones, A surgical revolution: surgery in Scotland 1837–1901, Edinburgh, John Donald, 2007, pp. 231, £20.00 (paperback 10-0-85976-684-5).

 
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Christopher Lawrence

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 313 - 314

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Julie Anderson, Francis Neary and John V Pickstone in collaboration with James Raftery, Surgeons, manufacturers and patients: a transatlantic history of total hip replacement, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. xiv, 222, illus., £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-55314-9).

 
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Christopher Lawrence

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 314 - 315

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Wendy Moore, The knife man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery, London, Bantam Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 482, illus., £18.99 (hardback 0-593-05209-9).

 
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Sally Frampton

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 315 - 317

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Anne Stiles (ed.), Neurology and literature, 1860–1920, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 229, £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52094-3).

 
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L S Jacyna

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 317 - 318

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003872 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Daniel Lord Smail, On deep history and the brain, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 271, £12.95, 21.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25289-9), £9.95, $15.95 (paperback 978-0-520-25812-9).

 
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Stephen T Casper

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 318 - 319

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Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, New York, Zone Books, 2007, pp. 501, 32 colour plates, 108 black and white illus., £25.95, $38.95 (hardback 978-1-890951-78-8).

 
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Norberto Serpente

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 319 - 321

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Nicholas Coni, Medicine and warfare: Spain, 1936–1939, Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, New York and London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xxv, 266, £65.00 (hardback 0-415-38597-0).

 
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Nicholas Whitfield

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 321 - 322

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Anna Crozier, Practising colonial medicine: the Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa, London and New York, I B Tauris, 2007, pp. xiv, 225, £47.50 (hardback 978-1-84511-459-6).

 
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Harriet Deacon

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 322 - 323

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Michelle Renshaw, Accommodating the Chinese: the American Hospital in China, 1880–1920, East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture series, New York and London, Routledge, 2005, pp. xxii, 312, illus., £55.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-0-415-97285-7).

 
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Xiaoli Tian

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 323 - 324

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Robert Woods, Children remembered: responses to untimely death in the past, Liverpool University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 288, illus., £29.95 (hardback 978-1-84631-021-8).

 
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Hannah Newton

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 324 - 325

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Leslie T Morton and Robert J Moore, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, 3rd ed., Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. xi, 425, £85.00 (hardback 0-7546-5069-3).

 
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Boleslav Lichterman

Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 325 - 326

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Books also Received

Books also Received

 
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Medical History / Volume 53 / Issue 02 / April 2009, pp 327 - 329

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300003951 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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