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Medical History

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Volume 42 - Issue 1 - January 1998

Articles

A danger to the public? Disposing of pauper lunatics in late-Victorian and Edwardian England: Plympton St Mary Union and the Devon County Asylum, 1867–1914

Unsuitable cases: The debate over outpatient admissions, the medical profession and late-Victorian London Hospitals

Goitre, cretinism and iodine in South Asia: Historical perspectives on a continuing scourge

The great experiment: The admission of women students to St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1916–1925

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The papers of Walter Pagel in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

Comment

The English sweating sickness, 1485–1551: A viral pulmonary disease?

Obituary

William Llywelyn Parry-Jones(1935–1997)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Book Reviews

Peter Bartrip, Themselves writ large: the British Medical Association 1832–1966, London, BMJ Publishing Group, pp. xviii, 373, £29.95 (0-7279-0998-3).

Adrian Desmond, Huxley: evolution's high priest, London, Michael Joseph, 1997, pp. xiv, 370, £20.00 (0-7181-3882-1).

Roy Porter (ed.), The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 400, illus., £24.95 (0-521-44211-7).

Gwen Wilson (ed. Jeanette Thirwell Jones), One grand chain: the history of anaesthesia in Australia, 1846–1962, Volume 1: 1846–1934, Melbourne, The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 1995, pp. xxi, 657, illus., A$75.00 (0646-264-87-7).

Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant (eds), The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, volume 2, 1914–1919, transl. Peter T Hoffer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. xlvi, 397, £28.50 (0-674-17419-4).

K D Somadasa, Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996, pp. 420, £30.00 (1-86983-581-6).

Paul Brodwin, Medicine and morality in Haiti: the contestfor healing power, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology 3, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvi, 240, £50.00 (hardback 0-521-57029-8); £17.95 (paperback 0-521-57543-5).

Lenore Manderson, Sickness and the state: health and illness in colonial Malaya, 1870–1940, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xix, 315, illus., £40.00 (0-521-56008-X).

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Volume 42 - Issue 1 - January 1998

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Obituary

News, Notes, and Queries

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Book Reviews