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Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences 54(2), Apr 1999
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J. Worth ESTES          p.113
Editor's Notes

George C. ALTER and Ann g. CARMICHAEL   p.114
'Classifying the dead: Toward a History of the Registration of Causes
of Death'

Harry M. ROSENBERG      p.133
'Cause of Death as a Contemporary Problem;

Hans Christian JOHANSEN     p.154
'The Development of Reporting Systems for Causes of  Death in Denmark'

Hallie J. KINTNER           p.167
'Recording the Epidemiologic Transition in Germany, 1816-1934'

John ROGERS         p.190
'Reporting Causes of  Death in Sweden, 1750-1950'

Michael STOLBERG            p.210
'National Statistics on the Causes of  Death in Nineteenth-Century
Bavaria'

Stephen J. KUNITZ           p.226
'Premises, Premises:  Comments on the Comparability of
Classifications'

Jon ARRIZABALAGA        p.241
'Medical Causes of Death in Preindustrial Europe: Some
Historiographical Considerations'

Margaret DeLACY         p.261
'Nosology, Mortality, and Disease Theory in the Eighteenth Century'

Ann JANNETTA            p.285
'Problems of Classifying Deaths in Nineteenth-Century Japan'

Kenneth H. FLIESS and Myron P. GUTMANN  p.296
'Parochial Burial Registers: The Case of Texas in the Nineteenth
Century'

Irvine LOUDON           p.312
'The Measurement of Maternal Mortality'



Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Espanola de las Ciencias y de las
Tecnicas 21, 1998
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Victor Arenzana         pp607-632
'Introduccion A La Obra Estadistico-Economica De Olegario Fernandez-
Ba+/-os'

Agusto Cam<=s Cabeceran       pp633-651
'Antoni Bergnes De Las Casas (1801-1879) Difusor De La Cultura
Cientifica Y Del Transformismo Lamarckista'

Jose Javier Escribano Benito pp653-676
'El Imaginarismo Segun Rey Y Heredia'

Silvia Manzo                 pp677-699
'Notas Sobre El Corpuscularismo, La Causalidad Y El Movimiento En El
Timeo De Platon'

Jose Antonio Mateos Royo     pp701-724
'Politica Municipal Y Desarrollo Tecnologico En El Aragon Del Siglo
Xvi: El Molino Nuevo De Daroca'

Gerardo Palao Poveda         pp725-760
'El Asentamiento De Equipos De Investigacion Quimica En Espa+/-a, Tras
La Guerra Civil (1940-1965)'

Leandro Sequeiros             pp761-778
'Datos Ineditos Sobre Federico Oloriz Y Aguilera (1855-1912): La
Sociedad Cientifico-Literaria La Juventud Medica (1871-1873)'

Rafael Uriarte Ayo            pp779-800
'Desarrollo Cientifico Y Cambio Tecnico En La Siderurgia Vasca Del
Siglo Xix: Las Experiencias Chenot, Tourangin Y Gurlt'




Medical History 43(2), April 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

John C. BURNHAM         p.155
'Biomedical Communication and the Reaction to the Queensland
Childhood Lead Poisoning Cases Elsewhere in the World'

K.N. WHITE              p.173
'Negotiating Science and Liberalism: Medicine in Nineteenth-Century
Australia'

Robert J.T. JOY         p.192
'Malaria in American Troops in the South and Southwest Pacific in
World War II'

Alannah TOMKINS         p.208
'Paupers and the Infirmary in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Shrewsbury'

David WAINES            p.228
'Dietetics in medieval Islamic Culture'

Roy SAWYER          p.241
'The trade in Medicinal Leeches in the Southern Indian ocean in the
Nineteenth Century'




Medical History 43(3), July 1999
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Willem de BLECOURT and Cornelie USBORNE p.283
Preface: 'Situating "Alternative Medicine" in the Modern Period'

Matthew RAMSEY          p.286
'Alternative Medicine in Modern France'

Elisabeth MEYER-RENSCHHAUSEN and Albert WIRZ        p.323
'Dietetics, Health Reform and Social Order: Vegetarianism as a Moral
Physiology.  The Example of Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939)'

Robert JUTTE                p.342
'The Historiography of Nonconventional Medicine in Germany: a Concise
Overview'

Frank HUISMAN           p.359
'Shaping the Medical Market: On the Construction of Quackery and Folk
medicine in Dutch Historiography'

Willem De BLECOURT and Cornelie USBORNE     p.376
'Women's Medicine, Women's Culture: Abortion and Fortune-Telling in
Early Twentieth-Century Germany and the Netherlands'




Minerva 37(1), Spring 1999
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STEPHEN COLE & THOMAS J. PHELAN     p.1-23
'The Scientific Productivity of Nations'

DAVID C. ENGERMAN       p.25-43
'New Society, New Scholarship: Soviet Studies Programmes in Interwar
America'

BRIAN PLANE         p.45-62
'The "Sputnik Myth" and Dissent Over Scientific Policies Under the
New Economic System in East Berlin, 1961-1964'

REVIEW ARTICLES;
MAURICE KOGAN           p.63-74
'The Culture of Academe'

DAVID B. McLAY          p.75-94
'Lise Meitner and Erwin Schrodinger: Biographies of Two Austrian
Physicists of Nobel Stature'




Notes And Records Of The Royal Society 53(1), 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SIR ALAN COOK, F.R.S.           p.1
Preface

MAURICE V. WILKES, F.ENG.F.R.S. p.3
'Historical studies in science and technology and the uses to which
they can be put'

SIR JOHN MEURIG THOMAS, F.R.S.  p.11
'Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford and the Royal Institution'

NEIL CHAMBERS               p.27
'Letters from the President: The correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks'

PAUL ELLIOTT                p.59
'Abraham Bennet, F.R.S. (1749-1799): A provincial electrician in
eighteenth-century England'

SYDNEY ROSS             p.79
'John Dalton's Lakeland excursions'

JOHN H. APPLEBY             p.95
'Woronzow Greig (1805-1865) F.R.S., and his scientific interests'

T.E. ALLIBONE, C.B.E., F.Eng. F.R.S.    p.107
'Philately and the Royal Society II'

W.E. BURCHAM, C.B.E., F.R.S.        p.121
'The Cavendish high-voltage laboratory 1935-39'

MICHAEL POLANYI, F.R.S. and P.H. PLESCH     p.135
'Symposium on Friedel-Crafts catalysts and polymerization'

CLIFFORD BUTLER, F.R.S.     p.143
'Recollections of Patrick Blackett 1945-70'

SIR AARON KLUG, O.M., P.R.S.        p.157
'The 1998 Royal Society Anniversary Address'




Notes And Records Of The Royal Society 53(2), 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SIR ALAN COOK, F.R.S.       p.179-182
'Our foreign correspondence'

MARY NIXON          p.183-186
'The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource at the Royal
Society: a work in progress'

IORDAN AVRAMOV      p.187-201
'An apprenticeship in scientific communication: the early
correspondence of Henry Oldenburg (1656-63)'

MARK GOVIER         p.203-217
'The Royal Society, slavery, and the island of Jamaica: 1660-1700'

JOHN H. APPLEBY         p.219-230
'Sir Alexander Crichton, F.R.S. (1763-1856), Imperial Russian
physician at large'

MARIA YAMALIDOU     p.231-242
'John Tyndall, the rhetorician of molecularity.  Part one. Crossing
the boundary towards the invisible'

HENRY HARRIS            p.243-252
'Howard Florey and the development of penicillin'

ROBERT ANDERSON     p.253-273
'Patrick Blackett in India: military consultant and scientific
intervenor, 1947-72. Part one'

ESSAY REVIEW;
RICHARD HAMBLYN     p.275-278
'The alum-maker's secret'




Perspectives in Physics 1(1), 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A.P. French
'The strange case of Emil Rupp'

Karen E. Johnson
'Science at the breakfast table'

Allan Franklin
'The roles of experiment'

Michael J. Crowe
'Pierre Duhem, the history and philosophy of physics, and the
teaching of physics'

David B. Wilson
'Galileo's religion versus the church's science? Rethinking the
history of science and religion'

Arthur I. Miller
'Einstein's first step toward general relativity: Gedanken
experiments and axiomatics'

Abraham Pais
'In memoriam: Robert Serber (1909-1997)'

Klaus Hentschel
'Some historical points of interest in Gottingen'




Perspectives On Science 6(3), 1998
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David L. Hull                     pp.209-231
"Studying the study of science scientifically".

Peter Barker and Bernard R. Goldstein    pp.232-258
"Realism and instrumentalism in sixteenth century astronomy: a
reappraisal".

Sungook Hong                     pp.259-287
"Unfaithful offspring?  Technologies and their trajectories".

Review Essay

A.I. Sabra                       pp.288-330
"Configuring the universe: Aporetic, problem solving, and
kinematic modeling as themes of Arabic astronomy".




Research Policy 28(5), June 1999
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Special Issue: Science And Technology Indicators

EDITORIAL           p.449

BLIND & H. GRUPP    p.451
'Interdependencies between the science and technology infrastructure
and innovation activities in German regions: empirical findings and
policy consequences'

FRENKEN, P.P. SAVIOTTI AND M. TROMMETTER        p.469
'Variety and niche creation in aircraft, helicopters, motorcycles and
microcomputers'

P.BOURKE & L. BUTLER    p.489
'The efficacy of different modes of funding research: perspectives
from Australian data on the biological sciences'

J.S. KATZ           p.501
'The self-similar science system'

R.J.W. TIJSSEN & E. van WIJK    p.519
'In search of the European Paradox: an international comparison of
Europe's scientific performance and knowledge flows in information
and communication technologies research'

ZITT, R. BARRE, A. SIGOGNEAU & F. LAVILLE       p.545
'Territorial concentration and evolution of science and technology
activities in the European Union: a descriptive analysis'



Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 52(2), 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Pierre Cassou-Nogues       pp. 179-206
"Recherches de Husserl pour une philosophie de la geometrie/Husserl's
research on the philosophy of geometry".

Nicolas Weill-Parot        pp. 207-240
"Causalite astrale et <science des images> au Moyen Age:
Elements de reflexion/Astral causality and the <science of images>
during the Middle Ages: Some lines of thought".

Claudette Balpe            pp. 241-283
"Constitution d'un enseignement experimental: La physique et chimie
dans les ecoles centrales/The constitution of the teaching of
experimental science: Physics and chemistry in the Ecoles Centrales.

Serge Fauche               pp. 285-305
"Des exercices du corps a la guerison de l'esprit au XVIII et XIX
siecles/Physical exercises and the curing of the mind during the 18th
and 19th centuries".

Bernard Vitrac             pp. 307-314
"Le type mathematique de l'idealite dans la pensee grecque: Sur un
ouvrage de Maurice Caveing/ The mathematical type of ideality in
Greek thought: On a book by Maurice Caveing".

Jean-Michel Salanskis      pp. 315-320
"Nombres reels et theorie du continu: Sur un ouvrage edite par Philip
Ehrlich/ Real numbers and theory of continua: On a book edited by
Philip Ehrlich".





Science And Public Policy 26(1), February 1999
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KOJI WAKABAYASHI, CHARLA GRIFFY-BROWN AND CHIHIRO WATANABE
        p.2
'Stimulating R&D: an analysis of the Ministry of International Trade
and Industry's 'visions' and the current challenges facing Japan's
technology policy-making mechanisms'

SAMI MAHROUM            p.17
'Competing for the highly skilled: Europe in perspective'

THOMPSON S H TEO & VIVIEN K G LIM   p.27
'Singapore - an 'intelligent island': moving from vision to reality
with information technology'

PEDRO CONCEICAO & MANUEL V. HEITOR  p.37
'On the role of the university in the knowledge economy'

HENRY ETZKOWITZ & MAGNUS GULBRANDSEN    p.53
'Public entrepreneur: the trajectory of United States science,
technology and industrial policy'.






Science As Culture 8(2), June 1999
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Special Issue; Biologistic Metaphors, Then And Now

EDITORIAL       p.125

VAL DUSEK       p.129
'Sociobiology Sanitized: Evolutionary Psychology and Gene
Selectionism'

JULIO MUNOZ-RUBIO   p.171
'On Darwinian Discourse, Part II:  Re-anthropologizing Nature by
Naturalizing Competitive Man'

ROBERT M. YOUNG p.189
'Malthus on Man: In Animals No Moral Restraint'

ADAM M. HEDGECOE    p.209
'Transforming Genes: Metaphors of Information and Language in Modern
Genetics'




Science in Context 11(3-4), Autumn-Winter 1998
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EUGENICS AND SCIENCE

EVAN BALABAN        p.331
'Eugenics and Individual Phenotypic Variation'

JONATHAN BENJAMIN   p.357
'Genes for Human Personality Traits'

ALAN R. TEMPLETON   p.373
'Genetic "Markers" at the Individual Level'

GENETIC SERVICES - EUGENIC PRACTICES?

RIVKA CARMI, et al. p.391
'Ethical Aspects of Genetic Research and Its Applications'

NEIL A. HOLTZMAN    p.397
'Eugenics and Genetic Testing'

MICHAL SAGI     p.419
'Genetic Screening in Israel'

ROBERT G. RESTA     p.431
'Theory and Practice of Genetic Counseling'

NORMAN DANIELS      p.439
'Negative and Positive Genetic Interventions'

DANIEL WIKLER       p.455
'Eugenic Values'

RUTH CHADWICK       p.471
'Genetic Counseling and the Charge of Eugenics?

DIANE B. PAUL       p.481
'Genetic Services, Economics, and Eugenics'

DOROTHY C. WERTZ    p.493
'Genetic Professionals around the World'

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

LEILA ZENDERLAND    p.511
'Biblical Biology'

ETIENNE LEPICARD    p.527
'Eugenics and Roman Catholicism'

SUMIKO OTSUBO & JAMES R. BARTHOLEMEW
''Eugenics in Japan: Some Ironies of Modernity, 1883-1945'

VARDIT RISPIER-CHAIM    p.567
'Genetic Engineering in Islamic Thought'

NOAM J. ZOHAR       p.575
'Examining "Jewish Eugenics"'

RAPHAEL FALK        p.587
'Zionism and the Biology of the Jews'

REINHARD MOCEK  p.609
'The Program of Proletarian Rassenhygiene'

PAUL WEINDLING      p.619
'Dissecting German Social Darwinism'




Science, Technology, & Human Values 24(2), Spring 1999
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WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH & G. MICHAEL BOWEN   p.179
'Of Cannibals, Missionaries, and Converts:  Graphing Competencies
from Grade 8 to Professional Science Inside (Classrooms) and Outside
(Field/Laboratory)'

STEFAN TIMMERMANS           p.213
'Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage: The Emergence of a Discovery
Trajectory'

HENRY ROTHSTEIN, ALAN IRWIN, STEVEN YEARLEY, AND ELAINE McCARTHY
                p.241
'Regulatory Science, Europeanization, and the Control of
Agrochemicals'

NELLY OUDSHOORN         p.265
'On Masculinities, Technologies, and Pain: The Testing of Male
Contraceptives in the Clinic and the media'

REVIEW ESSAY:
CLIVE SEALE
'Researching Society and Culture'

PAUL de GRAY, STUART HALL, LINDA JANES, HUGH MACKAY AND KEITH NEGUS
            p.290
'Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman'





Social History of Medicine 12(1), April 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

LAUREN KASSELL      p.3
'SSHM Prize Essay: How to Read Simon Forman's Casebooks: Medicine,
Astrology, and Gender in Elizabethan London'

CRISTINA ALVAREZ MILLAN p.19
Graeco-Roman Case Histories and their Influence on Medieval Islamic
Clinical Accounts;

TREVOR BURNARD  p.45
'"The Countrie Continues Sicklie": White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655-
1780'

VERA BLINN REBER    p.73
'Blood, Coughs, and Fever: Tuberculosis and the Working Class of
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1885-1915'

JAMES C. RILEY      p.101
'Why Sickness and Death Rates do not Move Parallel to One Another
Over Time'

BERNARD HARRIS      p.125
'Morbidity and Mortality during the Health Transition: A Comment on
James C. Riley, 'Why Sickness and Death Rates do not Move Parallel to
One Another over Time'

JAMES RILEY     p.133
'Reply to Bernard Harris: Morbidity and Mortality during the Health
Transition: A Comment on James C. Riley'

DERRICK BAXBY       p.139
'The Origins of Vaccinia Virus - An Even Shorter Rejoinder'

Discussion Points:
PETER RAZZELL       p.141
'The Origins of Vaccinia Virus - A Brief Comment'

Review Essay:
MARK S.R. JENNER        p.143
'Body, Image, Text in Early Modern Europe'




Social Studies of Science 29(3), June 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SEAN HSIANG-LIN LEI p.323
'From Changshan to a New Anti-Malarial Drug: Re-Networking Chinese
Drugs and Excluding Chinese Doctors'

ELOINA PELAEZ       p.359
'The Stored-Program Computer: Two Conceptions'

RUSSELL VINER       p.391
'Putting Stress in Life: Hans Selye and the Making of Stress Theory'

Comment:
BERNWARD JOERGES    p.411
'Do Politics Have Artefacts?'

Responses and Replies:
STEVE WOOLGAR AND GEOFF COOPER  p.433
'Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence?  Moses' Bridges, Winner's Bridges and
other Urban Legends in S&TS'

BERNWARD JOERGES    p.450
'Scams Cannot Be Busted: Reply to Woolgar & Cooper'




Studies In History And Philosophy Of Science     30A(2), June 1999
~~~~~~~~~

R.W. SERJEANTSON        p.195
'Testimony and Proof in Early-Modern England'

ISABELLE PANTIN         p.237
'New Philosophy and Old Prejudices: Aspects of the Reception of
Copernicanism in a Divided Europe'

STEPHEN G. BRUSH        p.263
'Dynamics of Theory Change in Chemistry: Part 2. Benzene and
Molecular Orbitals, 1945-1980'

FRIEDEL WEINERT         p.303
'Theories, Models and Constraints'

PATRICK MAHER           p.335
'The Confirmation of Black's Theory of Lime'





Studies In History And Philosophy Of Modern Physics  30b(2), June 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

LEO CORRY               p.159
'From Mie's Electromagnetic Theory of Matter to Hilbert's Unified
Foundations of Physics'

JOHN EARMAN & JEAN EISENSTAEDT      p.185
'Einstein and Singularities'

R.E. KASTNER            p.237
'Time-Symmetrised Quantum Theory, Counter-factuals and 'Advanced
Action''

REVIEW ARTICLE;
N.G. VAN KAMPEN         p.261
'H.A. Kramers and the Historiography of Modern Physics'





Studies In History And Philsophy Of Biological And Biomedical
Sciences 30C(2), June 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CAMERON SHELLEY     p.143
'Multiple Analogies of Evolutionary Biology'

MARTHA E. KEYES         p.181
'The Prion Challenge to the 'Central Dogma' of Molecular Biology,
1965-1991. Part II: The Problem with Prions'

PETER HADREAS           p.237
'Intentionality and the Neurobiology of Pleasure'

ESSAY REVIEWS:
ROBERT W. SMITH         p.237
'Martians and Other Aliens'

ALICE DOMURAT DREGER    p.255
'Avoiding the Fetal Position;

RACHEL COOPER           p.263
'From Thought Experiments to Real Experiments: Methodology in the
Philosophy of Mind'




Technology And Culture 40(2), April 1999
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

DAVID MCGEE         p.209
'From Craftsmanship to Draftsmanship: Naval Architecture and the
Three Traditions of Early Modern Design'

PIERRE CLAUDE REYNARD   p.237
'Unreliable Mills: Maintenance Practices in Early Modern Papermaking'

MARK ALDRICH            p.263
'"The Peril of the Broken Rail": The Carriers, the Steel Companies,
and Rail Technology, 1900-1945'

MARTIN REUSS            p.292
'The Art of Scientific Precision: River Research in the United States
Army Corps of Engineers to 1945'

EDWARD W. CONSTANT II   p.324
'Reliable Knowledge and Unreliable Stuff: On the Practical Role of
Rational Beliefs'

ON THE COVER:
ROBERT CASEY            p.358
'The Vanderbilt Cup, 1908'

EXHIBIT REVIEWS:

THOMAS E. LEARY         p.363
'The Boott Cotton Mills Museum and the American Textile History
Museum'

PETER COATES            p.369
'Oil from the Arctic: Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, at the
National Museum of American History'

REVIEW ESSAY:
BRIAN BLACK         p.375
'Construction Sites: Environment, Region, and Technology in
Historical Stories'





Transactions of the Newcomen Society 70(1), 1998-99
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

F.T. EVANS                 p. 1-26
"Steam road carriages of the 1830s: why did they fail?"

M.C. D                     p. 27-58
"The gas turbine in railway traction."

A.S. LEE                   p. 59-88
"The English Electric gas turbine locomotive GT3."

R.L. HILLS                 p. 89-108
"James Watt and his rotary engines."

N.A.F. SMITH               p. 109-122
"Edward Wright and his Perspective Glass: a surveying puzzle of the
early 17th century."

N.D. COWELL                p. 123-134
"The contributions of Robert Boyle and Denis papin to food
preservation."

W.F. WATSON                p. 135-142
"The invention of the miners' safety lamp: a reappraisal."


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