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***** Apologies for Cross Posting***** The second volume in the Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine has just been published Catherine Kelly, War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793–1830 OUTLINE: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, British doctors travelled in unprecedented numbers to foreign locations where they were confronted with battlefield injuries, virulent and mysterious diseases, and complex military politics that few had encountered before. Drawing on rare manuscript sources, Kelly examines how nearly twenty-five years of sustained warfare affected the professional identity embraced by those doctors and thoroughly militarized their approach to medicine. This study demonstrates the emergence of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century. The editors welcome further proposals for edited collections on monographs. For further details about the series, visit http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/studies_for_the_society_for_the_social_history_of_medicine SERIES DETAILS: The series is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from antiquity to the present, in all parts of the globe. Its interests include the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions, and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, pharmacy, biomedical science and vernacular healing come within its ambit; as do hospitals and hospices, patients and politicians, priests and pill-pushers, wise-women and witches, and all concerned with medicine in its widest sense. Methodologically, the series welcomes approaches derived from social history, as well as relevant studies in economic, cultural, and intellectual history. It also seeks to encourage historical work that employs the insights of related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, demography, and epidemiology, as well as literary, science, and policy studies. Send your proposals for edited collections to: Dr David Cantor Office of History National Institutes of Health Bldg 45, Room 3AN38, MSC 6330 Bethesda, MD 20892-6330 USA [log in to unmask] Tel: 301-402-8915 (Direct); 301-496-6610 (Office) Fax: 301-402-1434 Send your proposals for authored monographs to: Dr Keir Waddington Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion Humanities Building Cardiff University Colum Drive Cardiff Wales CF10 3EU Email [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------ Keir Waddington Head, History and Welsh History / Director of Research Editor, SSHM Monograph Series [http://www.sshm.org/publications/series.html] Contact details: Cardiff School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)29 20876103 Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/share/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/U-Z/waddington-keir-dr-overview_new.html