Volume 84: 2010

Bulletin of the History of Medicine The American Association for the History of Medicine The Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine volume 84 2010 Founded by Henry E. Sigerist Randall M. Packard and Mary E. Fissell Editors Gert H. Brieger Emeritus Editor Carolyn McLaughlin Associate Editor Advisory Editorial Board Robert A. Aronowitz Mary Lindemann Julie Fairman Jonathan Sadowsky Bert Hansen Susan Smith Mark Harrison Janet Tighe Joel Howell Keith Wailoo David Jones Elizabeth Watkins Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010 © Copyright 2010 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 723  Bull. Hist. Med., 2010, 84   : 000–000 articles Decline and Decadence in Iraq and Syria after the Age of Avicenna?: ‘Abd al-La. tı̄f al-Baghdādı̄ (1162–1231) between Myth and History / 1 N. Peter Joosse and Peter E. Pormann In the Balance: Weighing Babies and the Birth of the Infant Welfare Clinic / 30 Lawrence T. Weaver “Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity”: Race, Madness, and Social Order in Comparative Perspective / 58 Martin Summers Questioning the Medical Fringe: The “Cultural Doxy” of Catholic Hydropathy in Belgium, 1890–1914 / 92 Evert Peeters The Zhang on Chinese Southern Frontiers: Disease Constructions, Environmental Changes, and Imperial Colonization / 163 Bin Yang Working Ethics: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and Medical Research in Antebellum America / 193 Alexa Green “Dancing on Eggs”: Charles H. Bynum, Racial Politics, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1938–1954 / 217 Stephen E. Mawdsley Habituating Individuality: The Framing of Tuberculosis and Its Material Solutions in Republican China / 248 Sean Hsiang-lin Lei TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 84 Presidential Address: The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic from 1864 to 1939: A Minnesota Family Practice Becomes an International “Medical Mecca” / 323 W. Bruce Fye Stomach and Psyche: Eating, Digestion, and Mental Illness in the Medicine of Philippe Pinel / 358 Elizabeth A. Williams “Living versus Dead”: The Pasteurian Paradigm and Imperial Vaccine Research / 387 Pratik Chakrabarti Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt? Experts, Lay Knowledge, and the Role of Radiography in the Diagnosis of Silicosis in Britain, 1919–1945 / 424 Joseph Melling American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Eighty-Third Annual Meeting / 467 Christopher Crenner The Risks of Childbirth: Physicians, Finance, and Women’s Deaths in the Law Courts of Seventeenth-Century Rome / 549 Silvia De Renzi Enlightened Physicians: Setting Out on an Elite Academic Career in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / 578 Philip Rieder and Micheline Louis-Courvoisier “War Dysentery” and the Limitations of German Military Hygiene during World War I / 607 Derek S. Linton Spaced-Out in Saskatchewan: Modernism, Anti-Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization, 1950–1968 / 640 Erika Dyck editors’ note / vii (Winter) Instructions for Authors / vi (Spring) News and Events / 280, 509, 667 Media Reviews / 281, 671 Book Reviews / 120, 283, 515, 679 Book Notes / 157, 317 Books Received / 158, 318, 544, 710 Subject and Author Index—Volume 84 / 714 ...