Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Articles

Jonathan Sadowsky

Beyond the Metaphor of the Pendulum: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Styles of American Psychiatry
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on October 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 1-25; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Gilfoyle

Veterinary Immunology as Colonial Science: Method and Quantification in the Investigation of Horsesickness in South Africa, c. 1905–1945
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on October 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 26-65; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Allen B. Weisse

The Elusive Clot: The Controversy over Coronary Thrombosis in Myocardial Infarction
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on October 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 66-78; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Recent Dissertations in The History of Medicine
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 79-84; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

James William Brodman

Piers D. Mitchell. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix, 293 pp., illus. $75.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 85-86; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael King

Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby, eds. Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry. (Clio Medica 73). New York, Rodopi, 2004. 338 pp., illus. $51 (paper).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 87-88; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter V. Scoles

K. Patrick Ober. Mark Twain and Medicine: Any Mummery Will Cure. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2003. xix, 361 pp., illus. $47.50.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 88-90; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent J. Cirillo

M. R. Smallman-Raynor and A. D. Cliff. War Epidemics: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. xxxiv, 805 pp., illus. £100.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 90-92; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher M. Langford

Carol R. Byerly. Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I. New York, New York University Press, 2005. xv, 251 pp., illus. $21 (paper), $65 (cloth).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 92-94; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William R. Siebenschuh

Douglas A. Wissing. Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xiii, 334 pp., illus. $29.95.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 94-96; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy P. Campbell

Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker, eds. Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800–2000. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. vii, 448 pp., illus. $70 (cloth), $26.95 (paper).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 96-99; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leo B. Slater

Margaret Humphreys. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xi, 196 pp., illus. $48.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 99-101; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Patterson Smith

Florence Ridlon. A Black Physician’s Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xxii, 391 pp., illus. $29.95.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 101-103; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten Timmermann

Arthur A. Daemmrich. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii, 203 pp., illus. $34.95.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 103-105; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Hodges

Johanna Schoen. Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 331 pp., illus. $59.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 105-107; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Soraya de Chadarevian

Karen Rader. Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900–1955. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 299 pp., illus. $45.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 107-109; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dean Keith Simonton

Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xxii, 225 pp. $35.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 2, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 109-111; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 112-114; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 115; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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