Le dernier numéro de Medical History

Medical History

Volume 61 - Issue 2 - April 2017


Articles

‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850–1950
Aparna Nair

Interweaving Ideas and Patchwork Programmes: Nutrition Projects in Colonial Fiji, 1945–60
Sarah Clare Hartley

Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter’s Hospital, Bristol, 1698–1861
Leonard Smith

Surviving the Lunacy Act of 1890: English Psychiatrists and Professional Development during the Early Twentieth Century
Akinobu Takabayashi


Between Securitisation and Neglect: Managing Ebola at the Borders of Global Health
Mark Honigsbaum

Cutting the Flesh: Surgery, Autopsy and Cannibalism in the Belgian Congo
Sokhieng Au


Book Review
Baynton Douglas C. , Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 192, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-36416-2.
Martin S. Pernick

Decamp Eleanor , Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England: Performing Barbery and Surgery (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xii, 277, $95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-47155-0.
Frances E. Dolan

Dickinson Helen and O’Flynn Janine , Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care (University of Bristol: Policy Press, 2016), pp. xviii, 144, £12.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1447329763.

Emma Miller

Donovan Pamela , Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), pp. 294, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 9-781137-575166.
Karen G. Weiss

Elmer Peter , Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 384, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-19-871772-0.
Andrew Sneddon

Guarnieri Patrizia , Italian Psychology and Jewish Migration under Fascism from Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xv, 275, $100.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-137-30655-5.
Dorothy Porter

Handley Sasha , Sleep in Early Modern England (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2016), pp. xii + 280, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780300220391.
Jennifer Evans

Harvey William , Willis Robert (trans.), Carty Jarrett A. (ed.), On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals: A New Edition of William Harvey’s Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016), pp. xi, 95, $17.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4982-3508-2.
Brigit Ramsingh

Reuter Shelley Z. , Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to be Responsible (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), pp. 264, $27,00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8166-9996-4.
Lundy Braun

Trimble Michael R. , The Intentional Brain (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. x, 308, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1949-7.
Adam Zeman

Zysk Kenneth G. , The Indian System of Human Marks (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. xvi, 954, 2 vols, €249,00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9789004299726.
Toke Knudsen

Media Review

Select Annals and Analytics: The Practice of History in the Age of Big Data
A. R. Ruis, David Williamson Shaffer

Select Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond, Wellcome Collection, London, 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Philippa Kaina