Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Table of Contents - Volume 56 - Issue 01 - January 2012

Editorial

A Secure Future

 
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 1 - 2

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000247 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Articles

Rhazes in the Renaissance of Andreas Vesalius

 
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Abdul Haq Compier

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 3 - 25

Copyright © Abdul Haq Compier 2012

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000259 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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‘By Merit Raised to That Bad Eminence’: Christopher Merrett, Artisanal Knowledge, and Professional Reform in Restoration London

 
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Aaron Mauck

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 26 - 47

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000260 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Explaining Local Authority Choices on Public Hospital Provision in the 1930s: A Public Policy Hypothesis

 
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Julia Neville

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 48 - 71

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000272 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Showers, Sweating and Suing: Legionnaires’ Disease and ‘New’ Infections in Britain, 1977–90

 
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John T. MacFarlane and Michael Worboys

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 72 - 93

Copyright © John T. Macfarlane and Michael Worboys 2012

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000284 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Book Reviews

Sabrina Grimaudo, Difendere la salute: igiene e disciplina del soggettonel De sanitatetuenda di Galeno, Elenchos series (Naples: Bibliopolis, 2008), pp 280, €30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-7088-543-9.

 
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Lieve Van Hoof

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 94 - 95

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000296 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Cathy McClive and Nicole Pellegrin (eds), Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps: sang, santé, sexualité âge aux lumières, (Saint-Etienne: Université de Saint-Étienne, 2010), pp. 368, €23.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-86272-539-0.

 
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Catrien Santing

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 95 - 96

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000302 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Laura J. McGough, Gender, Sexuality and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Early Modern History: Society and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. x + 202, £50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-25292-9.

 
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Joanne M. Ferraro

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 96 - 97

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000314 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Paul A. Elliott, Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010), pp. xii + 363, £54.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84885-366-9.

 
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Jan Golinski

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 97 - 98

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000326 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Louis Landa and David Roberts (eds), Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xxxvii + 265, £8.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-957283-0.

 
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Alice Ford-Smith

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 98 - 99

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000338 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Maurits H. van den Boogert, Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria Through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell, The Arcadian Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 256, £120.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-95885-5.

 
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Effraim Lev

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 99 - 100

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000034X (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Joan Sherwood, Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780–1900, McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Science, 37 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010), pp. xiii + 214, $75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-3741-5.

 
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Alison Nuttall

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 100 - 101

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000351 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Brian Vale and Griffith Edwards, Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760–1832 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011), pp. xii + 235, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84383-604-9.

 
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Laurence Brockliss

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 101 - 102

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000363 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Douglas Hill (ed.), Letters from the Crimea: Writing Home, A Dundee Doctor (Dundee: Dundee University Press, 2010), pp. xi + 224, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84586-094-3.

 
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Carol Helmstadter

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 103 - 104

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000375 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty, Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), pp. xi + 172, £12.50/$18.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8014-7611-2.

 
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Elizabeth Domm

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 104 - 105

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000387 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and the United States since 1800 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. xx + 316, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-44260-061-4.

 
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Kristin Burnett

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 105 - 106

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000399 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Mary Cappello, Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor who Extracted Them (New York: The New Press, 2011), pp. xi + 292, $27.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-59558-395-6.

 
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Sarah Chaney

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 107 - 108

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000405 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Mark Harrison, The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xv + 346, £65.00/$125.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-957582-4.

 
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Michael Bresalier

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 108 - 110

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000417 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Juanita de Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright (eds), Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 33 (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp xi + 309, $125.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-415-96290-2.

 
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Christopher Abel

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 110 - 111

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000429 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Vicky Long, The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914–60 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. x + 290, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-28371-8.

 
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Sarah Hayes

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 111 - 112

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000430 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle (eds), Healing the Herds: Disease Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, Ecology and History Series (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), pp. x + 299, £22.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-1885-7.

 
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Greg Bankoff

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 112 - 114

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000442 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Michael G. Tyshenko, SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada, McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Health Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010), pp. xii + 451, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-36180.

 
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Virginia Berridge

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 114 - 115

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000454 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Sheldon Rubenfeld (ed.), Medicine After the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), pp. xxii + 233, £25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-230-62192-3.

 
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Bradley W. Hart

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 115 - 117

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000466 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Marius Turda, Modernism and Eugenics, Modernism and… (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. xv + 189, £16.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-230-23085-5.

 
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Devon Stillwell

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 117 - 118

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000478 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Alison Bashford and Phillipa Levine (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xx + 586, hardback, £85.00/$150.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-537314-1.

 
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Fred Pearce

Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 118 - 120

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000048X (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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Books Received

Books also Received

 
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Medical History / Volume 56 / Issue 01 / January 2012, pp 121 - 122

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000491 (About DOI), Published online: 15 February 2012

 

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