Social History of Medicine

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Lisa W. Smith

Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Millennium Prize Essay: Reassessing the Role of the Family: Women's Medical Care in Eighteenth-century England
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 327-342; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.327 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lea T. Olsan

Charms and Prayers in Medieval Medical Theory and Practice
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 343-366; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.343 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sharon Howard

Imagining the Pain and Peril of Seventeenth-century Childbirth:: Travail and Deliverance in the Making of an Early Modern World
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 367-382; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.367 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas-Holger Maehle

Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests?: Challenges to Medical Confidentiality in Imperial Germany
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 383-401; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.383 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pamela Dale

Implementing the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act:: Competing Priorities and Resource Constraint Evident in the South West of England before 1948
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 403-418; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.403 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jock McCulloch

The Discovery of Mesothelioma on South Africa's Asbestos Fields
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 419-436; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.419 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar

‘In the Silence of the Laboratory’:: The League of Nations Standardizes Syphilis Tests
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 437-459; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.437 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucinda McCray Beier

‘We were Green as Grass’:: Learning about Sex and Reproduction in Three Working-class Lancashire Communities, 1900–1970
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 461-480; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.461 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hilary M. Carey

What is the Folded Almanac?: The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 481-509; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.481 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Virginia Berridge

Public or Policy Understanding of History?
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 511-523; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.511 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Irvine Loudon

Review: Essay Review: Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 525-528; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.525 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Jackson

Review: The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 529-530; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.529 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. M. Jackson-Houlston

Review: Medicine and Literature: the Doctor's Companion to the Classics
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 530; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.530 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dorothy Porter

Review: Major Problems in the History of Medicine and Public Health. Documents and Essays
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 530-531; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.530-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Stewart

Review: A History of Scottish Medicine: Themes and Influences
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 532-533; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.532 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Wallis

Review: Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530–1640
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 533-534; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.533 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peregrine Horden

Review: The Four Seasons of Human Life: Four Anonymous Engravings from the Trent Collection
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 534-535; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.534 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Barham

Review: The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 535-536; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.535 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. D. Evans

Review: Notable Names in Anaesthesia
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 536-537; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.536 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Barham

Review: Thinking About Institutions: Milieux and Madness
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 537-538; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.537 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leonard D. Smith

Review: Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill in North Wales, 1800–2000
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 538-539; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.538 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leslie Topp

Review: ‘Ueber Irrenanstalten und deren We ite rentwicklung in Deutschland’: Wilhelm Griesinger im Streit mit der konservativen Anstaltspsychiatrie, 1865–1868: Hamburger Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, volume 1
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 539-540; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.539 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Melling

Review: The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics, and Power in the ‘Discovery’ of Byssinosis in the U.S.
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 541-542; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.541 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T. J. Horder

Review: Embryos in Wax. Models from the Ziegler Studio
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 542-545; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.542 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Viviane Quirke

Review: Inventer la Biomédecine: La France, l'Amérique et la Production des Savoirs du Vivant (1945–1965)
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 545-546; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.545 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dan O'Connor

Review: How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 546-547; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.546 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Viviane Quirke

Review: Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 547-548; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.547 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Publications Received
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 549-550; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.549 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louise Westwood

A Quiet Revolution in Brighton: Dr Helen Boyle's Pioneering Approach to Mental Health Care, 1899–1939
Soc Hist Med 2003 16: 551; doi:10.1093/shm/16.3.551 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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