Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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Get checked abstract Michael McVaugh

Richard Wiseman and the Medical Practitioners of Restoration London
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 15, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 125-140; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Philip M. Teigen

Legislating Fear and the Public Health in Gilded Age Massachusetts
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 141-170; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jon M. Harkness

The U.S. Public Health Service and Smoking in the 1950s: The Tale of Two More Statements
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 171-212; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Deborah Blythe Doroshow

Performing a Cure for Schizophrenia: Insulin Coma Therapy on the Wards
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on November 14, 2006
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 213-243; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Recent Dissertations

Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 244-250; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrm001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

John D. Lantos

SHERWIN B. NULAND. Maimonides. New York, Schocken, 2005. xiii, 223 pp. $19.95 (paper)
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 23, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 251-254; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Hamlin

W. F. BYNUM, ANNE HARDY, STEPHEN JACYNA, CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE and E. M. (TILLI) TANSLEY eds. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 614 pp. (No price given)
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 24, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 254-256; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Parascandola

JOSÉ RAMÓN BERTOMEU-SÁNCHEZ and AUGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, eds. Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1851) and His Times. Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, Science History Publications, 2006. xxv, 306 pp., illus. $52
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 257-258; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James A. Schafer

STEVEN M. STOWE. Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Social Studies in Medicine. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 392 pp. $45
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 258-260; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Eyler

THOMAS M. DANIEL. Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist: 1880–1938: Up to the Mountain. Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press, 2004. xx, 238 pp., illus. $45
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 260-262; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James E. Moran

ANDREW SCULL. Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. xiii, 360 pp., illus. $30
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 24, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 262-264; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin L. Rohrer

DANIEL J. WILSON. Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii, 300 pp., illus. $29
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 264-266; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chester R. Burns

JOHN LASZLO and FRANCIS A. NEELON. The Doctors' Doctor: E. A. Stead, Jr., M.D. Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, 2005. xii, 360 pp., illus. $50
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 266-268; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl057 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pia C. Kontos

JESSE F. BALLENGER. Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvii, 236 pp. $43
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 268-270; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hannah Landecker

CATHERINE WALDBY and ROBERT MITCHELL. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. viii, 231 pp. $74.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper)
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 270-272; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2007 62: 273-275; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrl049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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