Le dernier numéro de Medical History

Medical History

Volume 62 - Numéro 2 - Avril 2018




Articles

The ‘Compleat Physician’ and Experimentation in Medicines: Everard Maynwaring (c.1629–1713) and the Restoration Debate on Medical Practice in London
Jonathan Barry

‘Cleanse or Die’: British Naval Hygiene in the Age of Steam, 1840–1900
Elise Juzda Smith

Surveilling the Mind and Body: Medicalising and De-medicalising Homosexuality in 1970s New Zealand
James E. Bennett, Chris Brickell

‘A Wicked Operation’? Tonsillectomy in Twentieth-Century Britain
Louis Dwyer-Hemmings


Book Review

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey (eds), Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies and Environments in Italy and England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. xvi, 328, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1347-4.
Alexandra Bamji

Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. 544, £45.95/£24.95, hardback/paperback/ebook, ISBN: 978-0-231-16496-2 / 978-0-231-16497-9 / 978-0231-53832-9.
Marta Hanson

Sarah Kay, Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), $49.00, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226436739 / 9780226436876.
Jennifer Jahner

Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8.
Souvik Naha

Daniela Marrone, Linda Luxon and Gaetano Thiene (eds), English Students of Medicine at the University of Padua during the Renaissance (Padua: Padova University Press, 2016), pp. 179, €40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-46529-6.
Craig Martin

Manuella Meyer, Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830–1944 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017), £95/90, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9781580465786 / 9781787440425.
Paulo Drinot

Alison D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Shechner and Paolo Brenni (eds), How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2017), History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. xxxii + 240, $150, hardback, ISBN: 9789004324923.
Robert D. Hicks

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. ix+316, £88/£70, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-3-319-52886-1 / 978-3-319-52887-8.
Violeta Ruiz

Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith and Ulrike Thoms Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017), pp. vii $+$ 230, £80/£19.99, hardback/ebook/ebook for handhelds, ISBN: 9781580465762 / 9781782049197 / 9781782049296.
Susan Levine

Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 254, £80, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-1-580-46568-7/978-1-782-04849-7.
Harriet M. Phinney

Hyung Wook Park, Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–60 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), pp. viii, +342, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8229-4449-2.
Maria Strecht Almeida

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.
Michael Walkden