Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Table of Contents - Volume 45 - Issue 01 - January 2001

Articles

Robert Koch and the Pressures of Scientific Research: Tuberculosis and Tuberculin

 
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Christoph Gradmann

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 1 - 32

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000028 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

 

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Scalpel or rays? Radiotherapy and the struggle for the cancer patient in pre-second world war Germany

 
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Ton van Helvoort

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 33 - 60

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067387 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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The medical construction of homosexuality and its relation to the law in nineteenth-century England

 
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Ivan Dalley Crozier

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 61 - 82

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067399 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Protestant and Catholic medicine in the sixteenth century? The case of Ingolstadt anatomy

 
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Jürgen Helm

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 83 - 96

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067405 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library: The Society of Medical Officers of Health: its history and its archive

 
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Amanda Engineer

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 97 - 114

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067417 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Obituary

Luis García Ballester(1936–2000)

 
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Vivian Nutton

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 115 - 116

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067429 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

 
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Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 117 - 120

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067430 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Book Reviews

Laurence B McCullough, John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and the profession of medicine, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, pp. xv, 347, £86.00, $140.00 (0-7923-4917-2).

Laurence B McCullough, John Gregory's writings on medical ethics and the philosophy of medicine, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, pp. xi, 254, £66.00, $105.00 (0-7923-5000-6).

 
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Robert Baker

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 121 - 123

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067442 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Wolfgang U Eckart, Medizin und Kolonialimperialismus: Deutschland 1884–1945, Paderborn and Munich, Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997, pp. 638, illus., DM 78.00 (3-506-72181-X).

 
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Andreas-Holger Maehle

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 123 - 124

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067454 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830–1930, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 581, £45.00, $69.95 (0-521-64288-4).

 
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Anne Hardy

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 124 - 126

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067466 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Suzanne E Hatty and James Hatty, The disordered body: epidemic disease and cultural transformation, SUNY series in Medical Anthropology, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. v, 362, $18.95 (paperback 0-7914-4366-3).

 
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Paul Slack

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 126 - 127

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067478 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Irvine Loudon, The tragedy of childbed fever, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. ix, 236, £40.00 (0-19-820499-X).

 
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Constance Putnam

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 127 - 128

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730006748X (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Michael Bliss, William Osler: a life in medicine, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 581, illus., £27.50 (hardback0-19-512346-8).

 
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Stephen Lock

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 128 - 129

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067491 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Stephen Haliday, The great stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital, Thrupp, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. xiii, 210, illus., £19.99, $36.95 (0-7509-1975-2).

 
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Anne Hardy

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 129 - 130

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067508 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Michael R Finn, Proust: the body and literary form, Cambridge Studies in French 59, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 207, £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-64189-6).

 
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G S Rousseau

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 130 - 132

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730006751X (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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B Innes Williams, The matter of motion and Galvani's frogs, Bletchingdon, Rana, 2000, pp. vi, 298, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-9538092-OX). Orders to: Rana, Courtyard House, Church End, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire OX5 3DL.

 
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Christopher Lawrence

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 132 - 133

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067521 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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John R Hinnells and Roy Porter (eds), Religion, health and suffering, London, Kegan Paul International, 1999, pp. xviii, 495, illus., £65.00, $110.00 (0-7103-0611-3).

 
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Arthur Kleinman

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 133 - 134

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067533 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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William K Livingston, Pain and suffering, ed. Howard L Fields, Seattle, IASP Press, 1998, pp. xvii, 250, $48.00 (0-931092-24-8).

 
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Patrick D Wall

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 134 - 135

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067545 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Elizabeth Malcolm and Greta Jones (eds), Medicine, disease and the state in Ireland, 1650–1940, Cork University Press, 1999, pp.x, 278, £40.00 (hardback 1-85918-110-4), £15.95 (paperback 1-85918-230-5).

 
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Senia Paseta

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 135 - 136

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067557 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Cormac Ó Grada, Black '47 and beyond: the great Irish famine in history, economy, and memory, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. xii, 302, £21.95 (0-691-01550-3).

 
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L A Clarkson

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 136 - 137

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067569 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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E M Tansey, D A Christie, L A Reynolds (eds), Wellcome witnesses to twentieth century medicine, voL 2. Making the human body transparent: the impact of nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging. Research in general practice. Drugs in psychiatric practice. The MRC Common Cold Unit, Wellcome Institute Occasional Publication No. 6, London, The Wellcome Trust, 1998, pp. vi, 282, £12.50, $21.00 (paperback 1-869835-39-5). Orders to: Tracy Tillotson, Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NWI 2BE.

 
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Anne Digby

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 137 - 138

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067570 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Anthony Brinton Wolbarst, Looking within: How X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound and other medical images are created and how they help physicians save lives, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 206, illus., $50.00 (hardback 0-520-21181-2), $19.95 (paperback 0-520-21182-0).

 
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Malcolm Nicolson

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 138 - 139

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067582 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Frank Fenner and Bernardino Fantini, Biological control of vertebrate pests: the history of myxomatosis, an experiment in evolution, Wallingford, CABI Publishing, 1999, pp. xii, 339, illus., £60.00 (0-85199-323-0).

 
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Lise Wilkinson

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 139 - 140

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067594 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Thomas Dormandy, The white death: a history of tuberculosis, London and Rio Grande, Hambledon Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 433, illus., £25.00 (1-85295-169-4).

 
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Sheila Rothman

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 140 - 141

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067600 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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R Ian McCallum, Antimony in medical history: an account of the medical uses of antimony and its compounds since early times to the present, Bishop Auckland and Edinburgh, Pentland Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 125, illus., £15.00 (1-85821-642-7).

 
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Katherine D Watson

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 141 - 142

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067612 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Dominik Wujastyk, The roots of āyurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings, New Delhi, Penguin Books (India), 1998, pp. xvi, 389, Rs 250 (0-14-043680-4).

 
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T J S Patterson

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 142 - 143

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067624 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Ivan Garofalo, Alessandro Lami, Daniela Manetti and Amneris Roselli (eds), Aspetti della terapia nel Corpus Hippocraticum. Atti del IXe Colloque International Hippocratique, Pisa 25–29 settembre 1996, Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere “La Colombaria”, Studi 183, Florence, Leo S Olschki Editore, 1999, pp. vi, 716, L. 130,000 (88-222-4798-1).

 
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Vivian Nutton

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 143 - 144

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067636 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Juhani Norri, Names of body parts in English, 1400–1550, Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae, Humaniora, 291, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998, pp. 470 (951-41-0832-9).

 
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Roger French

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 144 - 145

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067648 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Rudolph M Bell, How to do it: guides to good living for Renaissance Italians, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 375, illus., £19.95, $25.00 (0-226-04210-3).

 
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David Gentilcore

Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 145 - 146

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730006765X (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Book Notices

Book Notices

 
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Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 147 - 147

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067661 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Books also Received

Books also Received

 
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Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp 147 - 149

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067673 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Front matter

MDH volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

 
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Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp f1 - f6

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067351 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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Back matter

MDH volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

 
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Medical History / Volume 45 / Issue 01 / January 2001, pp b1 - b3

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300067363 (About DOI), Published online: 16 November 2012

 

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