Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

Table of Contents - Volume 52 - Issue 01 - 01 January 2008

Articles

“Indecent and Demoralising Representations”: Public Anatomy Museums in mid-Victorian England

 
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A W Bates

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 1 - 22

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To Share or not to Share? Institutional Exchange of Cadaver Kidneys in Denmark

 
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Søren Bak-Jensen

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 23 - 46

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002040 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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The Changing Management of Acute Bronchitis in Britain, 1940–1970: The Impact of Antibiotics

 
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John T Macfarlane and Michael Worboys

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 47 - 72

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300000156 (About DOI), Published online: 07 December 2011

 

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William Harvey's Anatomy Book and Literary Culture

 
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Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 73 - 91

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002064 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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An Alternative to the Cosmic and Mechanic Metaphors for the Human Body? The House Illustration in Ma'aseh Tuviyah (1708)

 
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Etienne Lepicard

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 93 - 105

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002076 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library

Attitudes to Political and Commercial Endorsement in the Business Papers of Silas Mainville Burroughs, with Particular Reference to Henry Morton Stanley

 
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Chris Beckett

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 107 - 128

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002088 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

 
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Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 129 - 131

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000209X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Book Reviews

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Marriage of convenience: Rockefeller international health and revolutionary Mexico, University of Rochester Press, 2006, pp. xi, 434, illus., £55.00, $95.00 (hardback 1-58046-222-7).

 
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Patrick Zylberman

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 132 - 133

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002106 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Sunil S Amrith, Decolonizing international health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiii, 261, £50.00 (hardback 1-4039-8593-6).

 
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Niels Brimnes

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 133 - 134

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002118 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Matthew H Kaufman, The regius chair of military surgery in the University of Edinburgh, 1806–55, Clio Medica 69, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2003, pp. vi, 361, €80.00, $116.00 (hardback 90-420-1248-X); €37.00, $54.00 (paperback 90-420-1238-2).

 
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Philip K Wilson

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 135 - 136

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000212X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Jesse F Ballenger, Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America: a history, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. xvii, 236, £28.50, $43.00 (hardback 0-8018-8276-1).

 
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Stephen Casper

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 136 - 137

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Wolfgang U Eckart (ed.), Man, medicine, and the state: the human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Band 2, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2006, pp. 297, €43.00 (paperback 978-3-515-08794-0).

 
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Andreas-Holger Maehle

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 137 - 138

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002143 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Rafael Huertas, El siglo de la clínica: para una teoría de práctica psiquiátrica, Historia y crítica de la psiquiatría series, Madrid, Frenia, 2005, pp. 297, €15.00 (paperback 84-609-4361-5).

 
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Javier Moscoso

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 138 - 139

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002155 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis, Mutualism and health care: British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 243, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-6578-1).

 
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Keir Waddington

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 139 - 141

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002167 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Sharon L Snyder and David T Mitchell, Cultural locations of disability, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp. xiv, 245, illus., £12.00, $19.00 (paperback 0-226-76732-9).

 
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Jan Walmsley

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 141 - 142

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Richard DeGrandpre, The cult of pharmacology: how America became the world's most troubled drug culture, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. x, 294, £14.99, $24.95 (hardback, 978-0-8223-3881-9).

 
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Alex Mold

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 142 - 143

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Hippocrates, On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J Schiefsky, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 28, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp. xiii, 415, €134.00, $181.00 (hardback 90-04-13758-0).

 
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Pilar Pérez Cañizares

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 143 - 144

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002192 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Véronique Boudon-Millot (ed. and trans.), Galien: Introduction générale; Sur l'ordre de ses propres livres; Sur ses propres livres; Que l'excellent médecin est aussi philosophe, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2007, pp. ccxxxviii, 315, €75.00 (paperback 978-2-251-00536-2).

 
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Vivian Nutton

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 144 - 145

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C M Woolgar, D Serjeantson, and T Waldron (eds), Food in medieval England: diet and nutrition, Medieval History and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. xv, 347, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-19-927349-2).

 
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Victoria Sweet

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 145 - 146

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Jean A Givens, Karen M Reeds, and Alain Touwaide (eds), Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200–1550, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, vol. 5, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. xx, 278, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5296-0).

 
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Caroline Proctor

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 146 - 147

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002222 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Donatella Bartolini, Medici e comunità: esempi dalla terraferma veneta dei secoli XVI e XVII, Miscellanea di Studi e Memorie, XXXVII, Venezia, Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie, 2006, pp. xii, 279, €25.00 (paperback).

 
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Sandra Cavallo

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 147 - 148

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Martin Stuber, Stefan Hächler and Luc Lienhard (eds), Hallers Netz. Ein europäischer Gelehrtenbriefwechsel zur Zeit der Aufklärung, Studia Halleriana, vol. 9, Basel, Schwabe, 2005, pp. x, 592, illus., SFr 98.00, €68.50 (hardback 3-7965-1327-1).

 
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Ulrich Johannes Schneider

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 148 - 150

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002246 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Philip M Soergel (ed.), Sexuality and culture in medieval and renaissance Europe. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, vol. II, New York, AMS Press, 2005, pp xv, 287, $89.50 (hardback: ISSN 0081-8244, ISBN 0-404-64552-6).

 
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Elaine Clark

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 150 - 151

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002258 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Katharine Hodgkin, Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography, Early Modern History: Society and Culture Series, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. vi, 266, £50.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-1765-2).

 
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Rudolf Dekker

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 151 - 152

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002572730000226X (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Lucia di Palo, Le Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort di François Xavier Bichat: un lessico fisiologico, Bari, Cacucci Editore, 2005, pp. 224, €25.00 (paperback and DVD 88-8422-398-9).

 
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Fabio Zampieri

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 152 - 153

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002271 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome library, vol. 5: Books printed from 1641 to 1850, S–Z, London, The Wellcome Trust, 2006, pp. x, 532, £80.00 (+ £5 p&p) (hardback 1-84129-061-0). (Orders to: The Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.)

 
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Alison Walker

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 153 - 154

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002283 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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George K York and David A Steinberg, An introduction to the life and work of John Hughlings Jackson with a catalogue raisonné of his works Medical History, Supplement No. 26, London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006, pp. viii, 157, £35.00, €52.00, $68.00 (hardback 978-0-85484-109-7).

 
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E H Reynolds

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 154 - 155

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Thierry Lefebvre, La Chair et le celluloïd: le cinéma chirurgical du docteur Doyen, Brionne, Jean Doyen, 2004, pp. 143, illus., €20 (paperback 2-9522431-0-7). (Orders to: Jean Doyen, 33–35 Valleville, 27800 Brionne, France.)

 
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Oliver Gaycken

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 155 - 156

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002301 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Kirstie Blair, Victorian poetry and the culture of the heart, Oxford English Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2006, pp. ix, 273, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-19-927394-2).

 
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Fay Bound Alberti

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 156 - 157

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002313 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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Solomon Posen, The doctor in literature. Vol. 1: Satisfaction or resentment?, Oxford and Seattle, Radcliffe Publishing, 2005, pp. xv, 298, £29.95, $55.00 (paperback 1-85755-609-6).

Solomon Posen, The doctor in literature. Vol. 2: Private life, Oxford and Seattle, Radcliffe Publishing, 2006, pp. xv, 298, £35.00, $59.95 (paperback 1-85755-779-3).

 
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Richard Barnett

Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 157 - 158

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Books also Received

Books also Received

 
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Medical History / Volume 52 / Issue 01 / January 2008, pp 159 - 162

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300002337 (About DOI), Published online: 17 May 2012

 

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