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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 BOOK REVIEWS SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE "Social History of Medicine" is the peer reviewed journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine: Membership benefits of the Society include subscription to the journal "Social History of Medicine" and "The Gazette" which contains information about professional events, reduced registration fees at Society conferences, 30 per cent off titles in the Society's Routledge series, 25 per cent off titles in Ashgate's series "History of Medicine in Context", as well as discounts on selected books from Manchester University Press. In addition, bursaries are available for student members for travel and conferences. Details of how to join the Society, subscribe to the journal, and information about membership benefits are available at http://www.sshm.org. Keir Waddington Senior Lecturer in History ----------------------------------------------------- Cardiff School of History and Archaeology Cardiff University Humanities Building Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)29 20876103 Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/kw