Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Articles

Jacalyn Duffin

Jodocus Lommius’s Little Golden Book and the History of Diagnostic Semeiology
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on April 10, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 249-287; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj047 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas Rasmussen

Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929–1950
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on February 21, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 288-323; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Cantor

Cancer, Quackery and the Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 324-368; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj048 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Annemarie Kinzelbach

Infection, Contagion, and Public Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Imperial Towns
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 15, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 369-389; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathon Erlen

Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 390-396; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Scott Mandelbrote

ROBERT C. LEITZ, III, and KEVIN L. COPE, eds. Imagining the Sciences: Expressions of New Knowledge in the "Long" Eighteenth Century. New York, AMS Press, 2004. xvi, 361 pp., illus. $91.50.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on April 6, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 397-398; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Rosner

DIANA E. MANUEL, ed. Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835, (Medical History, Supplement No. 23). London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004. xii, 211 pp., illus. $50.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 399-400; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Glenn Mitchell

DEREK A. DOW. Maori Health and Government Policy, 1840–1940.. Wellington, Victoria University Press, in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1999. 280 pp. (No price given).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 400-402; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Barde

HOWARD MARKEL. When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed. New York, Vintage Books, 2005. xiv, 263 pp., illus. $25 (hardcover), $13.95 (paper).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 402-404; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine A. Chavigny

SARAH W. TRACY. Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 384 pp., illus. $48.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 404-406; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rob Hazin

HAL VAUGHN. Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris.. Dulles, Virginia, Brassey’s Inc., 2004. 172 pp., illus. $26.95.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 406-408; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Konrad E. Zinsmaier

ELLIOT S. VALENSTEIN. The War of the Soups and Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute over How Nerves Communicate. New York, Columbia University Press, 2005. 256 pp. (No price given).
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on April 6, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 408-410; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann Austin Bobbie

TOINE PIETERS. Interferon: The Science and Selling of a Miracle Drug. New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. 264 pp., illus. $140.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on April 6, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 410-411; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2006 61: 412-414; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrj040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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