Dernier numero de Medical History

Medical History


Volume 60 - Issue 02 - avril 2016


Articles

Evidence for the Continued Use of Medieval Medical Prescriptions in the Sixteenth Century: A Fifteenth-Century Remedy Book and its Later Owner
Margaret Connolly

Re-Inventing Infectious Disease: Antibiotic Resistance and Drug Development at the Bayer Company 1945–80
Christoph Gradmann

Hybridising Medicine: Illness, Healing and the Dynamics of Reciprocal Exchange on the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)
Philip J. Havik

Psychogeriatrics in England: Its Route to Recognition by the Government as a Distinct Medical Specialty, c.1970–89
Claire Hilton

Malnutrition in a Modernising Economy: The Changing Aetiology and Epidemiology of Malnutrition in an African Kingdom, Buganda c.1940–73
John Nott

‘Smashed by the National Health’? A Closer Look at the Demise of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham
Philip Conford

Book Review

Mary Dobson, Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease(London: Quercus, 2015), pp. 602, £12.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78206-943-0.
Richard Barnett

Nick Hopwood, Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. viii, 388, £31.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-04694-5.
Malcolm Nicolson

Saurabh Mishra, Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790–1920(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 208, £ 70, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8972-5.
Joanna Simonow

Robert Aronowitz, Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 288, $26.00, cloth, ISBN: 9780226049717.
Dora Vargha

Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization and the Politics of Choice (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2013), pp. xi, 304, $29.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-1255-6.
David Redvaldsen

Margaret Humphreys, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. xiv, 385, $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421409993.
Scott H. Podolsky

Graham Mooney, Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840–1914 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015), pp. 292, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465274.
Jacob Steere-Williams

Esther Diana, Santa Maria Nuova: Ospedale dei Fiorentini: Architettura ed assistenza nella Firenze tra Settecento e Novecento (Florence: Edizioni Polistampa, 2012), pp. 629, €90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-88-596-1048-9.
John Henderson

Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L.A. Webb, Jr (eds), Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control(Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013), pp. v + 246, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2068-3.

Melissa Graboyes, The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015), pp. vii + 307, £23.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780821421734.
B. B. Walker

Mark Jackson (ed.), Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85 (London, UK: Pickering & Chatto Ltd., 2015), pp. ix + 253, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978 1 84893 473 3.
Alice White
pp 285 - 287

Dana Simmons, Vital Minimum: Need, Science & Politics in Modern France (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 243, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 13:978-0-226-25156-1.
Paul V. Dutton

Matthew Smith, Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. 280, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-231-16484-9.
Catherine Carstairs

Books also Received

Books also Received

Media ReviewDigitisation, Big Data, and the Future of the Medical Humanities

Text-Mining and the History of Medicine: Big Data, Big Questions?
Elizabeth Toon, Carsten Timmermann and Michael Worboys

Reflections
Jeffrey S. Reznick