Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Articles

Ellen Dwyer

Psychiatry and Race during World War II
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 117-143; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Hamlin

William Pulteney Alison, the Scottish Philosophy, and the Making of a Political Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 23, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 144-186; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura D. Hirshbein

Science, Gender, and the Emergence of Depression in American Psychiatry, 1952–1980
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 187-216; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

John A. C. Greppin

H. F. J. Horstmanoff and M. Stol, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Leiden, Brill Academic Press, 2004. xv, 407 pp. $148.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 22, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 217-218; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stata Norton

Lily Y. Beck, trans. De materia medica by Pedanius Dioscorides. Hildesheim, Germany, Olms-Weidmann, 2005. 540 pp. 78.00.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 218-220; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Linda Woodbridge

Gail Kern Paster. Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiii, 274 pp., illus. $35.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 220-221; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lynda Payne

Robert L. Martensen. The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. xxviii, 247 pp., illus. (No price given).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 222-223; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Fissell

Kevin P. Siena. Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London’s "Foul Wards," 1600–1800. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2004. 280 pp. $80.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 223-224; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcia K. Farrell

Janis McLaren Caldwell. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 201 pp. $75.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 225-226; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arielle A. Rittersmith

Joseph S. Alter, ed. Asian Medicine and Globalization. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 187 pp. $45.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 227-228; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Bwire

Fiammetta Rocco. Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure that Changed the World. HarperCollins Pub. Ltd., 2004. 348 pp. $13.95.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 229-230; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carla C. Keirns

Jacalyn Duffin. Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. 240 pp., illus. $55 (cloth), $27.50 (paper).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 230-232; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher J. Rutty

Marc Shell. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 336 pp., illus. $35.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 22, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 232-234; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard T. White

Jack El-Hai. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. 362 pp., illus. $18.45.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 234-236; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marius Turda

Paul Julian Weindling. Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 482 pp. £60.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 236-240; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Larry G. Rotert

John Henderson. A Life of Ernest Starling. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. 185 pp., illus. (No price given).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 240-242; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Toby A. Appel

Christopher Hoolihan. An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2001–2004. Vol. I: A–L, xxi, 669 pp., illus. $125. Vol. II: M–Z, ix, 674 pp., illus. $125.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 243-244; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 245-247; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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