Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Table of Contents - Volume 54 - Issue 02 - April 2010

Articles

Toward Responsibility in International Health: Death following Treatment in Rockefeller Hookworm Campaigns, 1914–1934

 
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Steven Palmer

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 149 - 170

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000223 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

 

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“Divine Stramonium”: The Rise and Fall of Smoking for Asthma

 
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Mark Jackson

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 171 - 194

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000235 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

 

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The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajārib and Mujarrabāt as Source

 
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Cristina Álvarez Millán

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 195 - 214

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006712 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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It’s probably in the Air: Medical Meteorology in Denmark, 1810–1875

 
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Morten A Skydsgaard

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 215 - 236

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006724 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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“An All-white Institution”: Defending Private Practice and the Formation of the West African Medical Staff

 
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Ryan Johnson

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 237 - 254

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006736 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Obituary

John Symons 1943–2009

 
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William Schupbach

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 255 - 257

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006748 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Book Reviews

Nelly Tsouyopoulos, Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Claudia Wiesemann, Barbara Bröker and Sabine Rogge, Medizin und Philosophie, Band 2, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, frommann-holzboog, 2008, pp. 272, €48.00 (paperback 978-3-7728-1635-2).

 
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Andreas-Holger Maehle

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 258 - 259

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000675X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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L S Jacyna, Medicine and modernism: a biography of Sir Henry Head, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series, London, Pickering & Chatto, 2008, pp. viii, 353, £60.00, $99.00 (hardback 978-1-85196-907-4).

 
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Roger Smith

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 259 - 260

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006761 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Roy Church and E M Tansey, Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880–1940, Lancaster, Crucible Books, 2007, pp. xxvii, 564, illus. £19.99, $39.99 (paperback 97801-905472-07-9).

 
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Gerben Bakker

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 260 - 261

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006773 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Hormoz Ebrahimnejad (ed.), The development of modern medicine in non-western countries: historical perspectives, Royal Asiatic Society Books, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, pp. xiv, 241, £80.00 (hardback 978-0-415-44742-3).

 
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Anna Crozier

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 262 - 263

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006785 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The fertility doctor: John Rock and the reproductive revolution, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. 374, £16.00, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-8018-9001-7).

 
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Lara Marks

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 263 - 264

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006797 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Ann Shaw and Carole Reeves (eds), The children of Craig-y-nos: life in a Welsh tuberculosis sanatorium, 1922–1959, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009, pp. v, 149, 184 illus., £9.99 (paperback 978-0-85484-126-4).

 
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Susan Kelly

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 264 - 265

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Gretchen Krueger, Hope and suffering: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. x, 216, £23.50, $35.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8831-1).

 
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Emm Barnes

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 265 - 266

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006815 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M H Mazumdar (eds), Crafting immunity: working histories of clinical immunology, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp. x, 308, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5759-0).

 
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Christoph Gradmann

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 266 - 268

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006827 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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L A Reynolds and E M Tansey (eds), Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: influences and institutions, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 33, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008, pp. xxiv, 139 (paperback 978-085484-117-2).

L A Reynolds and E M Tansey (eds), Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: industry and regulation, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 34, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008, pp. xxvi, 120 (paperback 978-085484-118-9). Books in this series are freely available online following the links to Publications from www.ucl.ac/histmed; hard copies, £6.00, $10.00 from www.bertrams.com; www.gardners.com; www.amazon.co.uk; www.amazon.com

 
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Mark Jackson

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 268 - 269

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006839 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Charles Burnett (ed.), Ibn Baklarish’s book of simples: medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain, Studies in the Arcadian Library, No. 3, Oxford, The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 217, illus., £85.00 (hardback 978-0-19-954306-9).

 
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Siam Bhayro

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 269 - 271

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006840 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Bronwen L Wickkiser, Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece: between craft and cult, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 178, £29.00, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8978-3).

 
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Laurence Totelin

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 271 - 272

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006852 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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R J Hankinson (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Galen, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. xxi, 450, £45.00, $85.00 (hardback 978-0-521-81954-1), £17.99, $29.99 (paperback 978-0-521-52558-9)

 
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John Wilkins

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 272 - 273

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006864 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Christopher S Mackay, The hammer of witches: a complete translation of the Malleus maleficarum, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 657, £17.99, $29.99 (paperback 978-0-521-74787-5).

 
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Joseph Ziegler

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 274 - 275

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006876 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Lluís Alcanyís, Regiment preservatiu e curatiu de la pestilència, ed. Jon Arrizabalaga, Els Nostres Clàssics, Barcelona, Editorial Barcino, 2008, pp. 161, no price given (paperback 978-84-7226-733-6).

 
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Mar Rey Bueno

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 275 - 276

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006888 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Elaine Hobby (ed.), The birth of mankind: otherwise named, The woman’s book, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, pp. xxxix, 310, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3818-6).

 
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Valerie Worth-Stylianou

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 276 - 277

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000689X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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G M P Loots, Epilepsie in de zestiende eeuw. De Observationes van Pieter van Foreest, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2007, pp. 219, €27.50 (paperback 978-90-5235-189-6).

 
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Abdul Haq Compier

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 277 - 278

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006906 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds), Sir Thomas Browne: the world proposed, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 368, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-19-923621-3).

 
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Steve Ridge

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 278 - 279

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006918 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl A E Enenkel (eds), The sense of suffering: constructions of physical pain in early modern culture, Intersections, Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009, pp. xxiii, 501, €99.00, $148.00 (hardback 978-90-04-17247-0).

 
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Hannah Newton

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 279 - 280

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000692X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Angela Ki Che Leung, Leprosy in China: a history, New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, pp. xi, 373, £35.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-231-12300-6).

 
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Howard H Chiang

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 280 - 281

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006931 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Julie Parle, States of mind: searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868–1918, Scottsville, University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal Press, 2007, pp. xv, 334, illus., R190.00 (paperback 978-1-86914-098-4).

 
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Susanne Klausen

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 282 - 283

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006943 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Daniel R Wilson and Gerald A Cory Jr, The evolutionary epidemiology of mania and depression: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of mood disorders, Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, pp. v, 396, $129.95 (hardback 978-0-7734-5209-1).

 
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Stephen T Casper

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 283 - 284

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006955 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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David Boyd Haycock, Mortal coil: a short history of living longer, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 308, illus., £18.99, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-300-11778-3).

 
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James C Riley

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 284 - 285

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006967 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Christopher E Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne (eds), Cultures of the abdomen: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. vi, 264, £40.00 (hardback 1-4039-6521-8).

 
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Ian Miller

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 285 - 286

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006979 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Eluned Summers-Bremner, Insomnia: a cultural history, London, Reaktion Books, 2008, pp. 176, £19.95 (hardback 978-1-86189-317-8).

 
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A Roger Ekirch

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 286 - 287

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006980 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Andrew Knox and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital 1741–2006, Exeter, Andrew Knox and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, 2008, pp. xiii, 222, £16.99 (hardback 978-0-9561700-1-9), £8.99 (paperback 978-0-956170-0-2).

 
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Pamela Dale

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 287 - 288

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006992 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Thomas F Baskett, On the shoulders of giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, 2nd ed., London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2008, pp. xxii, 440, illus., £75.00 (£67.50 to Fellows, Members and Trainees of the RCOG), (hardback 978-1-904752-64-6).

 
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Richard Barnett

Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 288 - 289

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300007006 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Books also Received

Books also Received

 
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Medical History / Volume 54 / Issue 02 / April 2010, pp 290 - 292

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300007018 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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