DYNAMIS 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 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ORIGINAL PAPERS .