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Ornella Moscucci
The NHS at 60: Perspectives on Health Care Systems
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 433-435; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

NHS at 60: Perspectives on Health Care Systems Back

Martin Gorsky
The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 437-460; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn064 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Rosemary A. Stevens
History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948–2008
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 461-483; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Digby
‘Vision and Vested Interests’: National Health Service Reform in South Africa and Britain during the 1940s and Beyond
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 17, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 485-502; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Freeman
A National Health Service, By Comparison
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 503-520; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
The Languages of Science, the Vocabulary of Politics: Challenges to Medical Revival in Punjab
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 521-539; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Smith
Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Winner • Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957–1980
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 20, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 541-559; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn060 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Sources and Resources Back

Kelly Loughlin and Virginia Berridge
Whatever Happened to Health Education? Mapping the Grey Literature Collection Inherited by NICE
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 7, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 561-572; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Second Opinions: Response Back

Andrew Noymer and Beth Jarosz
Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century New England: The Dominance of Infectious Disease
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 573-578; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors Back

Notes on Contributors
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 579-580; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus on Drugs, Cigarettes and Alcohol Back

Pamela Pennock
Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain, 1945–2000
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 581-583; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn084 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosemary Elliot
Global Efforts to Combat Smoking: An Evaluation of Smoking Control Policies
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 583-585; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy D. Campbell
Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-Century Britain
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 585-587; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alex Mold
Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 587-588; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jessica Warner
Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender and Middle Class Ideology, 1800–1860
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 589-590; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Dominique A. Tobbell
Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 591-593; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn091 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jackie Leach Scully
DNA: Promise and Peril
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 593-595; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn088 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Ford
Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical and Political Issues
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 595-596; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark A. Largent
The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 597-598; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn077 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alison Nuttall
Scottish Midwives: Twentieth-Century Voices
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 598-600; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sue Morrison
Medical Records for the South Wales Coalfield c. 1890–1948: An Annotated Guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 600-602; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David McLean
Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650–1900
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 602-603; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn078 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sally Sheard
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 603-604; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn089 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet Greenlees
Kissing Can Be Dangerous: The Public Health Campaigns to Prevent and Control Tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900–1960
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 605-606; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Wynne Smith
The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c. 1750–1850
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 606-608; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guy Attewell
Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death and Healing in Northern India
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 23, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 608-609; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn067 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anna Crozier
Diversity and Division in Medicine: Health Care in South Africa from the 1800s
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 609-611; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catharine Coleborne
States of Mind: Searching for Mental Health in Natal and Zululand, 1868–1918
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 611-612; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Book Reviewers Back

Notes on Book Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 613-614; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata Back

Corrections, Volume 21
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 615; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn066 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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