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The new issue of Medical History (Volume 59 - Issue 03) is out now. This quarter features a special issue on ‘Skill in the History of Medicine and Science’, assembled by guest editors Nicholas Whitfield and Thomas Schlich. The issue contains: * Guest editorial – Skills through History - Nicholas Whitfield and Thomas Schlich * A Knockout Experiment: Disciplinary Divides and Experimental Skill in Animal Behaviour Genetics - Nicole C. Nelson * Social Skills: Adolf Meyer’s Revision of Clinical Skill for the New Psychiatry of the Twentieth Century - Susan Lamb * Surgical Skills Beyond Scientific Management - Nicholas Whitfield * Neither Physicians Nor Surgeons: Whither Neuropathological Skill in Post-war England? - Anna Kathryn Schoefert * ‘The Days of Brilliancy are Past’: Skill, Styles and the Changing Rules of Surgical Performance, ca. 1820–1920 - Thomas Schlich * Skill, Judgement and Conduct for the First Generation of Neurosurgeons, 1900–1930 - Delia Gavrus * Plus book and media reviews More information on this issue as well as back issues, highlights from past decades, free online volume on tuberculosis, and details for this year’s William Bynum Prize can be accessed via Medical History’s Cambridge University Press webpage: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MDH