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Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam

VOLUMEN 34 (2)                                                                2014

CONTENTS



DOSSIER

CHILDBIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE ACROSS CULTURES
Guest Editors: Anna Andreeva, M. Érica Couto-Ferreira and Susanne Töpfer

Childbirth and women's healthcare in pre-modern societies: an assessment
Anna Andreeva, M. Érica Couto-Ferreira and Susanne Töpfer

She will give birth easily: therapeutic approaches to childbirth in 1st millennium B.C. cuneiform sources                                                                                                  M. Érica Couto-Ferreira
The physical activity of parturition in Ancient Egypt: textual and epigraphical sources
Susanne Töpfer

For mothers and sisters: care of the reproductive female body in the medico-ritual world of early and medieval Japan                                                                                                     Katja Triplett
Childbirth in aristocratic households of Heian Japan                                              Anna Andreeva
She will give birth immediately. Pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Hebrew medical texts produced in the Mediterranean West
Carmen Caballero Navas


ARTICLES
The image of animal magnetism in fictional literature: the cases of Poe, Doyle and Du Maurier (Spanish)
Juan Marcos Bonet Safont

The reaction of Practicantes in Medicine and Surgery to the creation of a Nursing qualification in 1915 (Spanish)
Manuel-Ángel Calvo-Calvo

Tuberculosis and phthisiophobia in Argentina: discourses and conflicts in the construction of the Ascochinga sanitorium, 1925 (Spanish)
Adrian Carbonetti, María Laura Rodríguez y Lila Aizenberg

Boundaries and integrity in the «Social Contract for Spanish Science», 1907-1939 (Spanish)
Amparo Gómez


REVIEWS

Linda Kalof, ed. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age
Joseph Ziegler

Joan Cadden. Nothing Natural Is Shameful. Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
Fernando Salmón

Dave Lüthi. Le compas et le bistouiri. Architectures de la médecine et du tourisme curatif. L'exemple vaudois (1760-1940)
María Rosario del Caz Enjuto

Enric Novella. La ciencia del alma. Locura y modernidad en la cultura española del siglo XIX
Ángel González de Pablo

Ricardo Campos. El caso Morillo: crimen, locura y subjetividad en la España de la Restauración
Enric Novella

Jean-Louis Guereña. Les espagnols et le sexe. XIXe-XXe siècles
José Benito Seoane

Beatrix Hoffman. Health care for some. Rights and rationing in the United States since 1930
Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña

Keith Wailoo. How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
Caster Timmermann

Lea Haller. Cortison. Geschichte eines Hormons, 1900-1955
Livia Prüll

Ramón Castejón Bolea, Enrique Perdiguero Gil y José Luis Piqueras Fernández, eds. Las imágenes de la salud: cartelismo sanitario en España (1910-1950)
Raul Equizabal

María Isabel Porras Gallo, Mariano Ayarzagüena Sanz, Jaime de las Heras Salord, Jaime; y María José Báguena Cervellera, coords. El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la España franquista
Josep Lluís Barona

Nestor Herran y Xavier Roqué, eds. La física de la Dictadura. Físicos, cultura y poder en España 1939-1975
Jaume Navarro

Karina Felitti. La revolución de la píldora. Sexualidad y política en los sesenta
Agata Ignaciuk

Xavier Calvó-Monreal. Polímeros e instrumentos: De la química a la biología molecular en Barcelona (1958-1977)
Ana Romero de Pablos


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