Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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Get checked abstract Ann F. La Berge

How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 139-177; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vanessa Heggie

Lies, Damn Lies, and Manchester's Recruiting Statistics: Degeneration as an "Urban Legend" in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on October 27, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 178-216; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrm032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hui-Hua Chang

Rationalizing Medicine and the Social Ambitions of Physicians in Classical Greece
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on August 30, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 217-244; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrm028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Essay Review

Andrew M. Fearnley

Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Mental Illness and Race
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on October 24, 2007
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 245-257; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrm029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Allen G. Debus

Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 258-260; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William B. Jensen

Chymists and Chymistry, Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 260-262; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Lane Furdell

Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 262-264; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. Lewis Wall

Eighteenth Century British Midwifery
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 24, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 264-266; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernadette G. Callery

The English Physician
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 266-267; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rachel N. Ponce

The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 268-270; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph M. Gabriel

The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870–1920
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 270-271; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Parascandola

Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 271-272; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dennis B. Worthen

Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 273-274; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathon Erlen

The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 274-276; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John E. Van Sant

The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 276-279; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arlene W. Keeling

Our Shared Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins Hospital 1889–2006
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 279-281; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald N. Grob

Goals of Medicine in the Course of History and Today: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 281-283; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 284-288; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Recent Dissertations

RECENT DISSERTATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
J Hist Med Allied Sci 2008 63: 289-294; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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