Le dernier numéro de Medical History

Medical History

Volume 62 - Numéro 4 - Octobre 2018

Articles 

Visualising Primary Health Care: World Health Organization Representations of Community Health Workers, 1970–89

Alexander Medcalf, João Nunes

Health Planning in 1960s Africa: International Health Organisations and the Post-Colonial State

John Manton, Martin Gorsky

The Place of Post-Traumatic Amnesia in the Assessment of Blunt Head Trauma: The Epistemic, Professional and Material Factors Shaping British Neurology, circa 1920–40

Ryan Ross

‘Tolerable Intolerance’: Protestantism, Sectarianism and Voluntary Hospitals in Late-nineteenth-century London

Carmen M. Mangion

Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920–63)

Philip J. Havik

Book Review

C. Pierce Salgeuro ed., Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), pp. 689, £116.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780231179942.

Vivienne Lo

Eduardo J. Gómez, Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, Aids, And Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 304, $54.75, paperback, ISBN: 9781421423616.

Paul H. Mason

Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. 304, $30, hardback, ISBN: 9780226501857.

David Peace

Barbara S. Bowers and Linda Migl Keyser (eds), The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites, Objects and Texts (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. xv + 313, £110, hardback, ISBN: 9781472449627.

Patricia Skinner

Naomi Pfeffer, Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 372, $30, hardback, ISBN: 9780300118551.

Ciara Kierans

Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 268, $27.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781469632872.

Debbie McCollin

Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. xii + 192, $31.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781350009370.

Jessica P. Clark

Edward C. Atwater, Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. xii + 401, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465717.

Dale C. Smith

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. 288, $55.00/£41.50, hardback, ISBN: 9780226110295.

Darren N. Wagner

Faith C. S. Ho, Western Medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 230, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789888390946.

Jack Greatrex

Ilana Löwy, Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. xv + 277, $44.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423630.

Tanfer Emin Tunc

Media Review

Select Medicamenta: A Virtual Exhibition with Stories of Diseases and Remedies in Antique Books at the University of Padua (Italy)

Cecilia Furlani, Eugenio Ragazzi