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Editorial Note
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 231-233; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Simon Szreter
History, Policy and the Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 2, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 235-244; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Arnold
Diabetes in the Tropics: Race, Place and Class in India, 1880–1965
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 27, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 245-261; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric T. Jennings
Confronting Rabies and Its Treatments in Colonial Madagascar, 1899–1910
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 27, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 263-282; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vivienne Lo
But is it [History of] Medicine? Twenty Years in the History of the Healing Arts of China
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 283-303; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp004 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Liping Bu
Public Health and Modernisation: The First Campaigns in China, 1915–1916
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 27, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 305-319; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Olivia Weisser
Roy Porter Student Prize Essay • Boils, Pushes and Wheals: Reading Bumps on the Body in Early Modern England
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 27, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 321-339; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barbara McPake
Hospital Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Post-Colonial Development Impasse
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 2, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 341-360; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Violetta Hionidou
‘It was a bridge from life to death’: Hospitals during the Food Crisis, Greece 1941–1944
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 25, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 361-385; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Notes on Contributors
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 387-388; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Grant Williams
Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 389-391; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laurence Brockliss
With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 391-393; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Marshall
Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 393-395; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David E. Shuttleton
‘A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine’: Religion, Medicine and Culture in John Wesley's Primitive Physic
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 4, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 395-396; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Popper
Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 396-398; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Elmer
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 398-400; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Projit Bihari Mukharji
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 400-402; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Aldous
The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge and the ‘Opening’ of Japan
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 402-403; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lourdes Márquez Morfín
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 403-405; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Suzannah Biernoff
Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 407-409; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Mezzano, Jr.
Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilizations in the United States
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 5, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 409-410; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lesley A. Hall
Racial Science and British Society, 1930–62
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 410-411; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Hau
Gesünder Leben: Die Lebensreformbewegung im 20. Jahrhundert
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 4, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 411-413; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher E. Forth
Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 413-414; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harry Oosterhuis
Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Making of a ‘Central Problem’
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 414-416; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mathew Thomson
The Sleep of Others and the Transformation of Sleep Research
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 416-417; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Becky R. Lee
Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 417-419; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilana Löwy
Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 419-420; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Priscilla Wald
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 421-422; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yolanda Eraso
Curar, Sanar y Educar. Enfermedad y Sociedad en México, Siglos XIX y XX
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 423-424; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan D. Ablard
La Clínica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 425-426; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy M. T. Hamilton-Miller
Antimicrobial Drugs: Chronicle of a Twentieth-Century Medical Triumph
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 426-427; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Akinobu Takabayashi
Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 427-428; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alex Mold
Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD From Clinic to Campus
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 429-430; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Snelders
Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 430-431; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Melling
Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 431-433; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven King
Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550–1850
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 6, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 433-434; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie Neuner
Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 435-437; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rhodri Hayward
Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on June 9, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 437-438; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Nicole Baur
Bringing Medicine to Virtual Life
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 25, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 439-441; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Zwijnenberg
Visualizing and Explaining Pregnancy
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 441-443; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Notes on Book Reviewers
Soc Hist Med 2009 22: 445-448; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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