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Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 203; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Get checked abstract Michael Stolberg

Active Euthanasia in Pre-Modern Society, 1500–1800: Learned Debates and Popular Practices
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 205-221; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephen C. Kenny

‘I can do the child no good’: Dr Sims and the Enslaved Infants of Montgomery, Alabama
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 223-241; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Juanita De Barros

Dispensers, Obeah and Quackery: Medical Rivalries in Post-Slavery British Guiana
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 243-261; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alison Nuttall

‘Because of Poverty brought into Hospital: ... ‘ A Casenote-Based Analysis of the Changing Role of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1850–1912
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 263-280; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nigel Richardson

The Uppingham Typhoid Outbreaks of 1875–1877: A Rural Case-Study in Public Health Reform
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 281-296; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Louise Wannell

Patients' Relatives and Psychiatric Doctors: Letter Writing in the York Retreat, 1875–1910
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 297-313; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract William Gallois

Local Responses to French Medical Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 315-331; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Laura L. Phillips

Gendered Dis/ability: Perspectives from the Treatment of Psychiatric Casualties in Russia's Early Twentieth-Century Wars
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 333-350; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nafsika Thalassis

Soldiers in Psychiatric Therapy: The Case of Northfield Military Hospital 1942–1946
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 10, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 351-368; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

The Medicalisation of Male Menopause in America
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 369-388; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 389-390; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus on Pre-Modern Health and Healing

Constance B. Hieatt

Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 391-392; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy G. Siraisi

Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 393-394; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philip M. Soergel

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 394-396; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Victoria Sweet

The Mystic Mind: The Psychology of Medieval Mystics and Ascetics
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 396-398; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Ziegler

Windows of the Soul: The Art of Physiognomy in European Culture 1470–1780
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 398-400; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

The African Aids Epidemic: A History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 401-402; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jackie Leach Scully

The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 402-403; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stuart Anderson

Profits Before People? Ethical Standards and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 403-405; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ronnie Johnston

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 405-406; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Engel

Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 406-408; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marguerite Dupree

Financing Medicine: The British Experience since 1750
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 408-409; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilana Löwy

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh, 1919–1930: New Science in an Old Country
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 409-411; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Linda Bryder

Britain and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 411-412; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918 to 1960
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 412-413; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm057 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harry Hendrick

Childhood in World History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 413-415; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Rodriguez

Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 415-416; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Akihito Suzuki

Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 416-418; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm060 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catharine Coleborne

The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 418-419; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm061 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erika Dyck

Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 419-420; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louise Westwood

Criminal Man
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 4, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 420-422; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Serlin

Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 422-423; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Samiksha Sehrawat

Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab, 1850–1945
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 424-425; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine D. Watson

Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 3, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 425-426; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm066 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Reinarz

Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits from 500 BC to AD 2000
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 426-428; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm067 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Book Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 429-431; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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