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New Online Manuscript Submission Service
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 433; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm111 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Back

Brian Dolan
Twenty Years of Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 435-440; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Roger Cooter
After Death/After-'Life': The Social History of Medicine in Post-Postmodernity
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 441-464; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm074 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilana Löwy
The Social History of Medicine: Beyond the Local
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 465-481; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Woods
Medical and Demographic History: Inseparable?
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 483-503; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm072 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Waltraud Ernst
Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 505-524; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Flurin Condrau
The Patient's View Meets the Clinical Gaze
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 525-540; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent De Brouwere
The Comparative Study of Maternal Mortality over Time: The Role of the Professionalisation of Childbirth
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 9, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 541-562; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm070 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Kveim Lie
Origin Stories and the Norwegian Radesyge
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 563-579; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Second Opinions Back

Merryn Ekberg
The Old Eugenics and the New Genetics Compared
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 581-593; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm075 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Graham Mooney
Infectious Diseases and Epidemiologic Transition in Victorian Britain? Definitely
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 595-606; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 607-608; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus on Pharmaceuticals Back

Stuart Anderson
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: Knowledge, Trust, Profit and the Transformation of the British Pharmaceutical Industry 1880–1940
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 14, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 609-610; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Barton
From Physick to Pharmacology. Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 611-612; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Daemmrich
Pneumonia before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 612-613; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judy Slinn
Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 613-615; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Milton Wainwright
Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 14, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 615-617; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm084 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Jock McCulloch
Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Diseases in British Coal Mining
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 619-620; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm085 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marius Turda
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 620-621; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 621-623; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Weikart
Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 623-624; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm088 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David S. Parker
Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 624-625; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm089 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vicki Luker
Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 626-627; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vardit Rispler-Chaim
Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography, and Religion
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 627-628; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm091 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline H. Wolf
Infant Mortality: A Continuing Social Problem
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 628-629; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric John Bartelink
The Bioarchaeology of Children: Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 630-631; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm093 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Noll
Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control, and Citizenship
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 631-632; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pauline M. Prior
A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860s in England and Wales: The Space Reserved for Insanity
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 633-634; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Toon
Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 634-636; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Gorsky
Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 636-637; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terry Boychuk
Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 15, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 637-639; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bronwyn McFarland-Icke
Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia between the Wars
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 639-640; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Nottingham
The Nation's Doctor. The Role of the Chief Medical Officer 1855–1998
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 640-642; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm100 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Wallis
The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 642-643; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm101 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine A. Walker
Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 644-645; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Bryan Souza
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 12, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 645-646; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alex Mold
The Making of Addiction: The ‘Use and Abuse’ of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 15, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 647-648; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jasmine Gartner
When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 648-649; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Miller
Leprosy in Medieval England
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 15, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 649-651; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 15, 2007
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 651-652; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diana E. Manuel
Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 652-654; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Book Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2007 20: 655-657; doi:10.1093/shm/hkm110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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