In this Issue

Table of Contents

How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America

Ann F. La Berge
pp. 139-177
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Manchester's Recruiting Statistics: Degeneration as an "Urban Legend" in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Vanessa Heggie
pp. 178-216
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Rationalizing Medicine and the Social Ambitions of Physicians in Classical Greece

Hui-Hua Chang
pp. 217-244
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Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Mental Illness and Race

Andrew M. Fearnley
pp. 245-257
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Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (review)

Allen G. Debus
pp. 258-260
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Chymists and Chymistry, Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry (review)

William B. Jensen
pp. 260-262
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Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium (review)

Elizabeth Lane Furdell
pp. 261-264
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Eighteenth Century British Midwifery (review)

L. Lewis Wall
pp. 264-266
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The English Physician (review)

Bernadette G. Callery
pp. 266-267
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The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940 (review)

Rachel N. Ponce
pp. 268-270
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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870–1920 (review)

Joseph M. Gabriel
p. 270
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Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination (review)

John Parascandola
pp. 271-272
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Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers (review)

Dennis B. Worthen
pp. 273-274
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver (review)

Jonathon Erlen
pp. 274-276
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The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan (review)

John E. Van Sant
pp. 276-279
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Our Shared Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins Hospital 1889–2006 (review)

Arlene W. Keeling
pp. 279-281
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Goals of Medicine in the Course of History and Today: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Medicine (review)

Gerald N. Grob
pp. 281-283
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Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine

Jonathon Erlen
pp. 289-294
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Books Received

pp. 284-288
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