This is a selection of articles from the July 2008 archive. Click here for this month's History of Medicine headlines.
Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness: Female Forensic Psychiatric Committal in Ireland, 1910-1948
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Kelly, B. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Watkins, E. S. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c. 1450-c. 1850
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Elmer, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Davis, J. E. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
'The Scarlet Woman in Person': The Establishment of a Family Planning Service in Northern Ireland, 1950-1974
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: McCormick, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c.1500-c.1930
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Courtwright, D. T. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
'Our lives are bad but our luck is good': A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Seng, L. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Investigating 'Community' through a History of Responses to Asbestos-Related Disease in an Australian Industrial Region
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Hunter, C., LaMontagne, A. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Physicians and Society: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Jenkinson, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, Vol. 3
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Schleissner, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
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 Osterreich. Biopolitische Strukturen von 1900-1945 * Nebunia. O antropologie istorica romaneasca * O antropologie a marginalului. Psihiatria judiciara romaneasca, 1860-1940 * Iresponsabilitatea. Aspecte medico-legale, psihiatrice cu aplicatii in dreptul penal, civil si al familiei * Protiv bolesti i neznanja: Rockefellerova fondacija u meduratnoj Jugoslaviji
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Turda, M. Tags: Focus on Social History of Medicine in Central and Eastern Europe Source Type: info
Psychiatry and Empire
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Scull, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific. Historical and Comparative Perspectives
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Harrison, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Davis, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Perspectives on Risks and Regulation: The FDA at 100
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Barton, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Greenlees, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
State of Immunity. The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Jones, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Neurosis and Modernity. The Age of Nervousness in Sweden
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Blok, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Education, Mutualism, and Medical Consumers in Third Republic France, 1882-1914
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Lacy, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
A History of Drug Use in Sport 1876-1976: Beyond Good and Evil
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Heggie, V. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Blancou, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Notes on Contributors
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Tags: Notes on Contributors Source Type: info
Unearthing and Dissecting the Records of English Provincial Medical Education, c. 1825-1948
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Reinarz, J. Tags: Sources and Resources Source Type: info
Fragmentation as Metaphor in the Classical Healing Sanctuary
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Hughes, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
'Your Very Thankful Inmate': Discovering the Patients of an Early County Lunatic Asylum
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Smith, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Gentilcore, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Ernst, W. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Bioprospecting and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophantin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885-1922
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Osseo-Asare, A. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: info
Notes on Book Reviewers
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Reading 'Madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Parle, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
The Mine Management Professions in the Twentieth-Century Scottish Coal Mining Industry
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 30, 2008 Authors: Tweedale, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: info
Charriere's 'cremailliere' (toothed rack) or rack-catch
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Kirkup, J. Tags: Who Made What? Source Type: info
Notes and Jottings
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Tags: Notes and Jottings Source Type: info
Doctor Gunning S Bedford (1806-70) and the search for safe obstetric care, 1833-70
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Ryan, J. G Tags: Physicians Source Type: info
Henry Woltman (1889-1964): pioneering American neurologist
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Todman, D. Tags: Neurologists Source Type: info
The birth of Kaiser William II (1859-1941) and his birth injury
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Jacoby, M G Tags: Monarchs Source Type: info
George (1830-72) and his son James Hogarth (1863-1941) Pringle: unsung surgical pioneers
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Macintyre, I. Tags: Surgeons Source Type: info
Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929)
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: James, D G. Tags: Medical Truants Source Type: info
Disclosure of an unknown portrait of the Hungarian conjoined twin sisters Helen and Judith (1701-23)
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: van der Weiden, R M F Tags: Patients Source Type: info
C Walton Lillehei (1918-99): the versatile pioneer of open-heart surgery
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Banerjee, A. Tags: Surgeons Source Type: info
William Worrall Mayo (1819-1911)
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Todman, D. Tags: Medical Memorials Source Type: info
Nathaniel Hume (1732-1807)
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: James, D G. Tags: Medical Truants Source Type: info
Helena Kagan (1889-1978): the first paediatrician in Israel
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Rubin, Z. Tags: Physicians Source Type: info
Letter to the Editor
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Kirkup, J. Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: info
The marriage (1878) of Emile Roux (1853-1933) and Rose Anna Shedlock (b. c. 1850)
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: McIntyre, N. Tags: Couples Source Type: info
Eduardo Porro (1842-1902): Bronze medal struck in 1901 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his successfully performed caesarean-hysterectomy in 1876
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Todman, D. Tags: Medical Memorial Source Type: info
William Gregory (1803-58): Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and enthusiast for Phrenology and Mesmerism
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Kaufman, M. H Tags: Physicians Source Type: info
Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943): discoverer of the plague bacillus, explorer and agronomist
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Hawgood, B. J Tags: Pathologists Source Type: info
Acupressure
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - July 24, 2008 Authors: Goodman, G. M Tags: Editorial Source Type: info
Book Notes.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Packard RM, Fissell ME Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
The Nature of Plague in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Mikhail A Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
Between the Ego and the Icepick: Psychosurgery, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatric Discourse.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Raz M Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
News and Events.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Wolfe EL, Wolfe D Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
"Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Appel JM Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
Books Received.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
Doctors on Record: Uruguay's Infant Mortality Stagnation and Its Remedies, 1895-1945.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Birn AE Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
Sacagawea's "Cold": Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Authors: Kastor PJ, Valenčius CB Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: info
Vern L. Bullough, 1928-2006.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Brodie B, D'Antonio P Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
"Seeds that may have been planted may take root": international aid nurses and projects of professionalism in postindependence India, 1947-65.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Healey M Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Cholera and Kulturkampfi government decision making and the impetus to establish nursing as a secular occupation in Prussia in the 1870s.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Schweikardt C Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Writing international nursing history: what does it mean?
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Boschma G Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Cure or no cure: nursing practices of profession, self-help, and naturopathy in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century reference books.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Roth S Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Short report: Jewish hospitals and nursing schools in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Malleier E Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
A nurse contracts tuberculosis on the job, 1944-45.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Golden J Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Nursing history in Germany: past, projects, papers, and prospects.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Hähner-Rombach S, Schweikardt C Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Short report: the education of nurses in the German Democratic Republic (1949-90).
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Thiekötter A Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
"Telling the painful truth"--nurses and physicians in the nineteenth century.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Nolte K Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Kate Hurd-Mead lecture. Nursing the great society: the impact of the Nurse Training Act of 1964.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Lynaugh JE Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
"Out of the frying pan and into the fire": from private nurse to police assistant--a case study from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: Hähner-Rombach S Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
Collaboration and conflict in international nursing, 1920-39.
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Source: Nursing History Review - July 5, 2008 Authors: McGann S Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: info
"Before, we were always there--now, everything is separate": on nursing reforms in Western Germany.
