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Volume 54 - Issue 3 - July 2010

Editorial

Medical History and the Wellcome Trust Centre

Articles

British India and the “Beriberi Problem”, 1798–1942

Cross-nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard

Shock Therapy in Danish Psychiatry

Medical Healers in Ottoman Egypt, 1517–1805

Short Article

“Villages … Reek of Ether Vapours”: Ether Drinking in Silesia before 1939

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Michael Hunter, Boyle: between God and science, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2009, pp. xiii, 366, illus., £25.00, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-300-12381-4).

Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret (eds), Vulgariser la médecine: du style médical en France et en Italie, Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 89, Geneva, Droz, 2009, pp. 352, €37.95 (paperback 978-2-600-01263-8)

Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore (eds), Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine, Oxford, Blackwell in collaboration with the Society for Renaissance Studies, 2008, pp. 123, illus., £19.99 (paperback 978-1-4051-8040-5).

Peregrine Horden, Hospitals and healing from antiquity to the later Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp. xii, 338, £65.00, online £58.50 (hardback 978-0-7546-6181-8).

Danielle Westerhof, Death and the noble body in medieval England, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2008, pp. xii, 190, £50.00 (hardback 978-1-84383-416-8).

Tony Waldron, Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past, Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, 2007, pp. 148, £27.99 (hardback 978-1-59874-252-7).

Karol K Weaver, Medical revolutionaries: the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. xii, 164, £38.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-252-03085-7); £12.99, $20.00 (paperback 978-0-252-07321-2).

Geoffrey L Hudson (ed.), British military and naval medicine, 1600–1830, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 81, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 290, €60.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2272-0).

Leo van Bergen, Before my helpless sight: suffering, dying and military medicine on the western front, 1914–1918, transl. Liz Walters, History of Medicine in Context, Franham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, pp. ix, 528, £35.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-8553-5).

Harry Oosterhuis and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstras, Verward van geest en ander ongerief: psychiatrie en geestelijke gezondheidszorg in Nederland (1870–2005), 3 vols, Houten, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 2008, pp. xxvi, 1522, €135.00 (hardback 978-90-313-5238-8).

Andreas-Holger Maehle, Doctors, honour and the law: medical ethics in imperial Germany, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. viii, 198, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-230-55330-9).

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Volume 54 - Issue 3 - July 2010

Editorial

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News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews