Social History of Medicine, Volume 19 Issue 1, 2006
Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Bill Luckin
Focus on Psychiatry, Psychology and History
ARTICLES
Roy Porter Student Prize Essay: More than Quacks: Seeking Medical Care in Late
Colonial New Spain - MARIANNE B. SAMAYOA
Reading the Body: Dissection and the 'Murder' of Sarah Stout,
Hertfordshire, 1699 - VANESSA MCMAHON
The Lasting Legacy of a Bigamous Duchess: The Benchmark Precedent for Medical
Confidentiality - ANGUS H. FERGUSON
The Asylum, the Poor Law, and a Reassessment of the Four-Shilling Grant:
Admissions to the County Asylums of Yorkshire in the Nineteenth Century - ROBERT
ELLIS
'The Liberty to Spread Disaster': Campaigning for Compulsion in the Control
of Venereal Diseases in Edinburgh in the 1920s - SUSAN LEMAR
'Why Don't they Get It?' Talk of Medicine as Science. St Luke's Hospital,
Panniqtuuq, Baffin Island - FRANK JAMES TESTER AND PAULE MCNICOLL
Medicine of Senescence or Managing a Hospital System: The Resistible Rise of
Geriatric Medicine in the State of Victoria - CECILY HUNTER
Testing Times: The Emergence of the Practolol Disaster and its Challenge to
British Drug Regulation in the Modern Period - JOHN ABRAHAM AND COURTNEY DAVIS
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