Social History of Medicine

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Samuel S. Thomas

Midwifery and Society in Restoration York
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 1-16; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.1 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angie Smith

Weighed in the Balance? The Corporation of Apothecaries in Bordeaux, 1690–1790
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 17-37; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.17 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Mccalman and Ruth Morley

Mothers' Health and Babies' Weights: The Biology of Poverty at the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857–83
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 39-56; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.39 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Darby

‘Where Doctors Differ’: The Debate on Circumcision as a Protection against Syphilis, 1855–1914
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 57-78; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.57 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sue Bowden and Geoffrey Tweedale

Mondays without Dread: The Trade Union Response to Byssinosis in the Lancashire Cotton Industry in the Twentieth Century
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 79-95; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.79 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eugenia Tognotti

Scientific Triumphalism and Learning from Facts: Bacteriology and the ‘Spanish Flu’ Challenge of 1918
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 97-110; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.97 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simone Petraglia Kropf, Nara Azevedo, and Luiz Otávio Ferreira

Biomedical Research and Public Health in Brazil: The Case of Chagas' Disease (1909–50)
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 111-129; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.111 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy Boon

Review: Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 131-132; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.131 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rona Ferguson

Review: Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 132-133; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.132 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Viviane M. Quirke

Review: Reader's Guide to the History of Science
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 133-134; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.133 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kim Pelis

Review: ‘On Second Thought’ and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 134-135; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.134 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Faith Wallis

Review: Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 135-137; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.135 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Flemming

Review: Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 137-138; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.137 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louise Gray

Review: Die Wunder der Bettlerinnen. Krankheits- und Heilungsgeschichten im Burgos und Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1554–1559)
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 138-139; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.138 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Wallis

Review: ‘Medicine in the Renaissance City’, Renaissance Studies, 15:2
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 139-140; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Basalla

Review: Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 140-141; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.140 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine D. Watson

Review: Royal Poxes and Potions: The Lives of Court Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 141-142; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.141 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather Creaton

Review: A Flickering Lamp: A History of the Sydenham Medical Club (1775–2000)
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 142-143; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.142 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Tanner

Review: The ‘Croydon Case’: Dirty Old Town to Model Town. The Making of the Croydon Board of Health and the Croydon Typhoid Epidemic of 1852–3
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 143-144; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.143 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philippa Levine

Review: Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 144-145; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.144 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth T. Hurren

Review: A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth Century America
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 146-147; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.146 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulf Schmidt

Review: Die Institutionalisierung der Medizinhistoriographie: Entwicklungslinien vom 19. ins 20. Jahrhundert
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 147-148; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.147 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Welshman

Review: Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 149-151; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.149 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Welshman

Review: Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 149-151; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.149-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulrike Lindner

Review: Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft. Geschlechtskrankheiten und Gesundheitspolitik in Deutschland im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 151-153; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.151 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yaël Simpson Fletcher

Review: For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 153-154; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.153 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jessa Chupik

Review: Giving Birth in Canada, 1900–1950
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 154-155; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.154 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Greenlees

Review: Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 155-156; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.155 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce Lindsay

Review: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume 12, Maternal Care
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 156-157; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.156 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Weindling

Review: The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 157; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.157 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marius Turda

Review: Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 158-159; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.158 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas W. Laqueur

Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 159-161; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.159 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ronnie Johnston

Review: Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 161-162; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.161 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Powell

Review: The National Health Service. A Political History, 2nd edn
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 162-163; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.162 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Publications Received
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 165-167; doi:10.1093/shm/16.1.165 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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