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7 November 2009

Book Review
Mark Osborne Humphries
A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918–1920
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 7, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp085
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Article
Lawrence T. Weaver
‘Growing Babies’: Defining the Milk Requirements of Infants 1890–1910
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 7, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp058
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6 November 2009

Book Review
Lisa Downing
The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 6, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp079
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5 November 2009

Focus on Medicine and War
Mark Harrison
The Ottoman Army 1914–1918: Disease and Death on the Battlefield
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 5, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp067
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Article
Paul Weindling
Medical Refugees and the Modernisation of British Medicine, 1930–1960
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 5, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp054
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Article
John Abraham and Courtney Davis
Discovery and Management of Adverse Drug Reactions: The Nomifensine Hypersensitivity Syndrome, 1977–1986
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 5, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp049
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3 November 2009

Focus on Medicine and War
Erica Charters
British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600–1830
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp073
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Article
Mical Raz
Psychosurgery, Industry and Personal Responsibility, 1940–1965
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp061
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Article
Robert E. Bulander Jr
‘The Most Important Problem in the Hospital’: Nursing in the Development of the Intensive Care Unit, 1950–1965
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp057
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Article
Peregrine Horden
What's Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp052
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Book Review
Geoffrey Rivett
The Quest for Public Health in Manchester: The Industrial City, the NHS and the Recent History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp095
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Book Review
Sienna R. Craig
Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp094
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Book Review
Thérèse Taylor
Brûlures Profondes: Récit de Vie de Deux Grands Brûles
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp090
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Book Review
Rosemary Wall
Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp088
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Book Review
David Healy
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp083
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Book Review
Hans Pols
Kinderen van hun Tijd: Zestig Jaar Kinder-en Jeugdpsychiatrie in Nederland, 1948–2008
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp081
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Book Review
Paul Lerner
Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp080
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Book Review
Katharine Park
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families and Masculinities
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp076
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Focus on Medicine and War
James Robert Allard
A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp074
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Focus on Medicine and War
Peter Neushul
War and Disease, Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp071
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Focus on Medicine and War
Kate Blackmore
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp069
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Article
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900–1935
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp062
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Article
Kenneth Collins
European Refugee Physicians in Scotland, 1933–1945
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp059
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Article
Shang-Jen Li
Discovering ‘The Secrets of Long and Healthy Life’: John Dudgeon on Chinese Hygiene
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 3, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp045
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2 November 2009

Article
Rakefet Zalashik and Nadav Davidovitch
Professional Identity across the Borders: Refugee Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1933–1945
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on November 2, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp100
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29 October 2009

Article
John Zamet
The Anschluss and the Problem of Refugee Stomatologists
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp097
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Book Review
Helen Sweet
At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital 1938–2008
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp091
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Book Review
Anne Hardy
Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp089
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Book Review
Susan E. Lederer
Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp086
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Book Review
Pat Thane
Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp078
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Book Review
Louise Hill Curth
Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp077
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Book Review
Christopher Lawrence
The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 29, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp075
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27 October 2009

Book Review
Dane Kennedy
The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 27, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp092
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Book Review
John H. Evans
What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 27, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp087
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Book Review
Jan Gregoire Coombs
Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880–1980: An Oral History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 27, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp084
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Focus on Medicine and War
Gerald Kutcher
Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 27, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp072
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23 October 2009

Second Opinion
Jonathan Toms
So What? A Reply to Roger Cooter's ‘After Death/After-"Life": The Social History of Medicine in Post-Postmodernity’
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 23, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp102
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Article
Christian Pross
The Attitude of German Émigré Doctors Towards Medicine under National Socialism
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 23, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp064
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22 October 2009

Second Opinions
Virginia Berridge, Rachel Herring, and Betsy Thom
Binge Drinking: A Confused Concept and its Contemporary History
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 22, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp053
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On Site
Luca Borghi
Web 2.0: A Tool for the History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on October 22, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp051
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24 September 2009

Article
Michael Shepherd
The Impact of Germanic Refugees on Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry
Social History of Medicine Advance Access originally published on September 24, 2009. This version published October 28, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp099
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18 September 2009

Article
Paul Weindling
Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930–1960: Introduction
Social History of Medicine Advance Access originally published on September 18, 2009. This version published October 28, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp098
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2 July 2009

Article
Ezra Hasson
Capacity to Marry: Law, Medicine and Conceptions of Insanity
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on July 2, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkp046
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13 February 2009

Book Review
Howard H. Chiang
The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Social History of Medicine Advance Access published on February 13, 2009.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkn105
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