Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Articles

Wendy D. Churchill

Bodily Differences?: Gender, Race, and Class in Hans Sloane’s Jamaican Medical Practice, 1687–1688
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 391-444; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John C. Burnham

Unraveling the Mystery of Why There Was No Childhood Lead Poisoning
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 445-477; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean Burrell and Geoffrey Gill

The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1832 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 478-498; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan Lanzoni

The Asylum in Context: An Essay Review
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 499-505; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 506-512; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Rebecca Flemming

Julius Rocca. Galen on the Brain: Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD. Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill Academic Press, 2003. xxii, 313 pp., illus. (No price given).
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 513-514; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shona Kelly Wray

Ole J. Benedictow. The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, Boydell Press, 2004. xvi, 433 pp., illus. (No price given).
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 514-516; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory T. Cushman

Londa Schiebinger. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 306 pp., illus. $39.95.
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 516-518; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Hudson

Richard L. Golden. A History of William Osler’s "The Principles and Practice of Medicine." Montreal, Canada, Osler Library, 2004. xiii, 265 pp., illus. (No price given).
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 518-520; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri066 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manfred D. Laubichler

Oren Solomon Harman. The Man Who Invented the Chromosome: A Life of Cyril Darlington. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 329 pp. $49.95.
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 520-522; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri067 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ross M. Mullner

Bill Hayes. Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood. New York, Ballantine Books, 2005. 291 pp., illus. $23.95.
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 522-523; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosemary A. Stevens

Barbara Bridgman Perkins. The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2004. xii, 252 pp. (No price given).
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 524-526; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 527-529; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2005 60: 530-531; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jri072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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