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Social History of Medicine

Volume 27 Issue 4 November 2014





Editorial
Pratik Chakrabarti, Graham Mooney, and Patricia Skinner
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Original Articles


Alanna Skuse
Wombs, Worms and Wolves: Constructing Cancer in Early Modern England 
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Michael Stolberg
Learning from the Common Folks. Academic Physicians and Medical Lay Culture in the Sixteenth Century 
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Annemarie Kinzelbach
Erudite and Honoured Artisans? Performers of Body Care and Surgery in Early Modern German Towns
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S.-M. Grant
‘Mortal in this season’: Union Surgeons and the Narrative of Medical Modernisation in the American Civil War 
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Ben Curtis and Steven Thompson
‘A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress’: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890–1948

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Julia Ross Cummiskey
Drugs, Race and Tuberculosis Control in Baltimore, 1950–1978 
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Despo Kritsotaki
Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance in Post-war Greece: The Case of the Centre for Mental Health and Research, 1956–1970 
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Jessica M. Parr
Obesity and the Emergence of Mutual Aid Groups for Weight Loss in the Post-War United States 
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Second Opinion

Howard Phillips
The Recent Wave of ‘Spanish’ Flu Historiography 
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Focus on Early Modern Medicine

Laurence Brockliss
Robert Weston, Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789
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Leah Astbury
Adrian Wilson, Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England
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Maríaluz López-Terrada
Kristy Wilson Bowers, Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville
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James E. Shaw
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy
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Victoria Sparey
Sara Read, Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
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Book Reviews