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Volume 53(4);  October 2009
Articles
David Skae: Resident Asylum Physician; Scientific General Practitioner of Insanity
MICHAEL BARFOOT
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 469–488.
PMCID: PMC2766139
From the “Silent Killer” to the “Whispering Disease”: Ovarian Cancer and the Uses of Metaphor
PATRICIA JASEN
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 489–512.
PMCID: PMC2766137
Between the Clinic and the Laboratory: Ethology and Pharmacology in the Work of Michael Robin Alexander Chance, c.1946–1964
ROBERT G W KIRK
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 513–536.
PMCID: PMC2766138
Medical Officers of Health, Gender and Government Responses to the Problem of Cancer in Britain, 1900–1940
JOSEPH MELLING and PAMELA DALE
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 537–560.
PMCID: PMC2766133
“It could be Seen more Clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans”: The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy
SEBASTIAN PRANGHOFER
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 561–586.
PMCID: PMC2766140
Obituary
Obituary
Andrew Wear
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 587–589.
PMCID: PMC2766136
News, Notes, and Queries
News, Notes, and Queries
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 590.
PMCID: PMC2766134
Book Reviews
Book Review: Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: the uses of a sixteenth-century compendium
Elaine Leong
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 591–592.
PMCID: PMC2766157
Book Review: Making women’s medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology
Maaike van der Lugt
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 592–593.
PMCID: PMC2766141
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Book Review: Refiguring unani tibb: plural healing in late colonial India
Cristiana Bastos
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 594–595.
PMCID: PMC2766155
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Book Review: Contraception, colonialism and commerce: birth control in South India, 1920–1940
Seán Lang
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 595–596.
PMCID: PMC2766165
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Book Review: Health and the modern home
Bill Luckin
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 596–598.
PMCID: PMC2766156
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Book Review: Wellbeing: a cultural history of healthy living
Virginia Smith
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 598–599.
PMCID: PMC2766151
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Book Review: Medicina, historia y género: 130 años de investigación feminista
Katharina Rowold
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 599–600.
PMCID: PMC2766148
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Book Review: Stories of illness and healing: women write their bodies
Carole Reeves
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 600–601.
PMCID: PMC2766142
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Book Review: Impotence: a cultural history
Ivan Crozier
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 601–602.
PMCID: PMC2766149
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Book Review: Food and the city in Europe since 1800
Sally M Horrocks
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 602–603.
PMCID: PMC2766160
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Book Review: Shifting boundaries of public health: Europe in the twentieth century
Erik Ingebrigtsen
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 604–605.
PMCID: PMC2766163
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Book Review: Acts of citizenship
Harry Oosterhuis
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 605–606.
PMCID: PMC2766166
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Book Review: History and theory of human experimentation: the Declaration of Helsinki and modern medical ethics
Andreas-Holger Maehle
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 606–607.
PMCID: PMC2766152
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Book Review: Medizingeschichte. Eine Einführung
Felix von Reiswitz
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 608–609.
PMCID: PMC2766158
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Book Review: Davenport’s dream: 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics
Thea Vidnes
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 609–610.
PMCID: PMC2766162
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Book Review: Saving sickly children: the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909–1970
Teemu Ryymin
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 610–611.
PMCID: PMC2766143
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Book Review: Science in the service of children, 1893–1935
John Stewart
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 611–612.
PMCID: PMC2766154
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Book Review: Galen and the rhetoric of healing
Vivian Nutton
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 612–613.
PMCID: PMC2766144
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Book Review: Alphita
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 613–616.
PMCID: PMC2766150
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Book Review: De sympathia et antipathia rerum, Liber I
Samuel Cohn, Jr
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 616–618.
PMCID: PMC2766161
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Book Review: ‘A cheap, safe and natural medicine’: religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley’s
John Hedley Brooke
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 618–619.
PMCID: PMC2766146
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Book Review: ‘Gratefull to providence’: the diary and accounts of Matthew Flinders, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife, 1775–1802, vol. I: 1775–1784
Patrick Wallis
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 619–620.
PMCID: PMC2766159
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Book Review: Blue ships: Dutch ocean crossing with multifunctional drugs and spices in the eighteenth century
Sabine Anagnostou
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 620–621.
PMCID: PMC2766147
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Book Review: Herman Boerhaave: the man and his work
Harold J Cook
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 621.
PMCID: PMC2766145
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Book Review: Healing the land and the nation: malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920–1947
Patrick Zylberman
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 621–622.
PMCID: PMC2766153
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Book Review: Modern medicine in the Holy Land: pioneering British medical services in late Ottoman Palestine
Rhona Seidelman and Shifra Shvarts
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 623–624.
PMCID: PMC2766164
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Books also Received
Books also Received
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 625–628.
PMCID: PMC2766135
Index
Index
Med Hist. 2009 October; 53(4): 629–659.
PMCID: PMC2770272
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