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Jessica Hughes
Fragmentation as Metaphor in the Classical Healing Sanctuary
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 14, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 217-236; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leonard Smith
‘Your Very Thankful Inmate’: Discovering the Patients of an Early County Lunatic Asylum
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 237-252; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cherilyn Lacy
Education, Mutualism, and Medical Consumers in Third Republic France, 1882–1914
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 17, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 253-268; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Bioprospecting and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophantin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885–1922
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 269-290; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Loh Kah Seng
‘Our lives are bad but our luck is good’: A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 291-309; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brendan D. Kelly
Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness: Female Forensic Psychiatric Committal in Ireland, 1910–1948
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 21, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 311-328; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 21, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 329-344; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leanne McCormick
‘The Scarlet Woman in Person’: The Establishment of a Family Planning Service in Northern Ireland, 1950–1974
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 345-360; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cecily Hunter and Anthony D. LaMontagne
Investigating ‘Community’ through a History of Responses to Asbestos-Related Disease in an Australian Industrial Region
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 17, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 361-379; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn033 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Jonathan Reinarz
Unearthing and Dissecting the Records of English Provincial Medical Education, c. 1825–1948
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 381-392; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Notes on Contributors
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 393-394; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Marius Turda
Need and Care: Glimpses into the Beginnings of Eastern Europe's Professional Welfare • Guardians of the Poor, Custodians of the Public: Welfare History in Eastern Europe, 1900–1960 • Eugenik in Österreich. Biopolitische Strukturen von 1900–1945 • Nebunia. O antropologie istorica româneasca • O antropologie a marginalului. Psihiatria judiciara româneasca, 1860–1940 • Iresponsabilitatea. Aspecte medico-legale, psihiatrice cu aplicatii în dreptul penal, civil si al familiei • Protiv bolesti i neznanja: Rockefellerova fondacija u meduratnoj Jugoslaviji
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 395-401; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Vanessa Heggie
A History of Drug Use in Sport 1876-1976: Beyond Good and Evil
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 403-404; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David T. Courtwright
Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c.1500-c.1930
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 404-405; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Barton
Perspectives on Risks and Regulation: The FDA at 100
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 406-407; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Greta Jones
State of Immunity. The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 407-408; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean Blancou
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 408-409; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gayle Davis
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 409-411; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Scull
Psychiatry and Empire
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 411-413; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gemma Blok
Neurosis and Modernity. The Age of Nervousness in Sweden
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 413-414; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Parle
Reading ‘Madness’: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 415-416; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Waltraud Ernst
Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 416-418; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Harrison
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific. Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 418-419; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Greenlees
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 419-420; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Gentilcore
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 421; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret Schleissner
The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, Vol. 3
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 422-423; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph E. Davis
Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 423-425; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Elmer
Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c. 1450-c. 1850
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 425-426; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline Jenkinson
Physicians and Society: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 426-427; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoffrey Tweedale
The Mine Management Professions in the Twentieth-Century Scottish Coal Mining Industry
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 427-429; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Book Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 431-432; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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