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Volume 50 • Number 2 • April 2006
C O N T E N T S
Articles
“Until the Sun of Science ... the true Apollo of Medicine has risen”:
Collective Investigation in Britain and America, 1880–1910
harry m marks 147
Watching Paint Dry: Organic Solvent Syndrome in late-Twentieth-Century
Britain
anne spurgeon 167
Norwegian General Hospitals, 1970–2002: County Ownership—An Interlude
between Welfare Localism and State Direction
tore grønlie 189
Fighting Venereal Diseases: Scandinavian Legislation c.1800 to c.1950
ida blom 209
Texts and Documents
Thomas Vicary and the Anatomie of Mans Body
duncan p thomas 235
Essay Review
Christopher Crenner, Private practice: in the twentieth-century medical
office of
Dr Richard Cabot
christopher lawrence 247
Book Reviews
Michel Foucault, Abnormal: lectures at the Collège de France 1974–1975,
ed. Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni, transl. Graham Burchell
helmut puff 252
Sydney A Halpern, Lesser harms: the morality of risk in medical
research
ilana löwy 253
Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio (eds), Twentieth century ethics of
human
subjects research: historical perspectives on values, practices and
regulations
andreas-holger maehle 254
Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña (ed.), The politics of the healthy life: an
international
perspective
john stewart 255
Barbara Bridgman Perkins, The medical delivery business: health reform,
childbirth, and the economic order
ornella moscucci 256
D A Christie and E M Tansey (eds), Leukaemia
lawrence weaver 257
D A Christie and E M Tansey (eds), Genetic testing
lawrence weaver 258
D A Christie and E M Tansey (eds), Cystic fibrosis lawrence
weaver 258
D T Zallen, D A Christie, and E M Tansey (eds), The rhesus factor
and disease prevention
lawrence weaver 258
David Clark, Neil Small, Michael Wright, Michelle Winslow and Nic
Hughes,
A little bit of heaven for the few? An oral history of the modern
hospice movement
in the United Kingdom
joanna bornat 260
Constance E Putnam, The science we have loved and taught: Dartmouth
Medical
School’s first two centuries
keir waddington 261
Diana E Manuel (ed.), Walking the Paris hospitals: diary of an
Edinburgh
medical student, 1834–1835
irvine loudon 262
Mart J van Lieburg (ed.), Isidore Snapper’s notes for memoirs
1889–1973: the
autobiographical recollections of the ‘champion of beside medicine’
christopher booth 263
Sonu Shamdasani, Jung and the making of modern psychology: the dream
of a science
michael neve 264
Pratik Chakrabarti, Western science in modern India: metropolitan
methods,
colonial practices
niels brimnes 265
Sander L Gilman and Zhou Xun (eds), Smoke: a global history of smoking
virginia berridge 266
Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the display of authority in early
modern France
mary lindemann 268
Christine Hillam (ed.), Dental practice in Europe at the end of the
18th century
roger king 269
Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd-Wilson (eds), Reading
the early
modern passions: essays in the cultural history of emotion
fay bound 270
Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy (eds and transl.), Questions and answers
for physicians: a medieval Arabic study manual by ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Sulami
anna ayse akasoy 272
Victoria Thompson, Death and dying in later Anglo-Saxon England
deborah banham 273
Angela Montford, Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the
thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries
robert ralley 274
Vern L Bullough, Universities, medicine and science in the medieval
west
vivian nutton 275
Books also Received
276
Harold J. Cook, Ph.D. FRCP (Hon.)
Professor and Director
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College
London
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London NW1 2BE UK
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