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Table of Contents

The Retreat of Plague from Central Europe, 1640-1720: A Geomedical Approach

Edward A. Eckert
pp. 1-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0015
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Producing Development: The Anatomy of Human Embryos and the Norms of Wilhelm His

Nick Hopwood
pp. 29-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0020
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On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970 (review)

Marcia L. Meldrum
p. 74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0030
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Economically Practical and Critically Necessary? The Development of Intensive Care at Chestnut Hill Hospital

Julie Fairman
pp. 80-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0016
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Long Waits, Small Spaces, and Compassionate Care: Memories of Race and Medicine in a Mid-Twentieth Century Southern Community

Lynn Marie Pohl
pp. 107-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0035
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News and Events

pp. 138-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0034
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Les maladies dans l'art antique (review)

Shigehisa Kuriyama
pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0024
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La chirurgie dans l'Égypte Gréco-Romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs (review)

Lawrence J. Bliquez
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0002
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Mé decine et morale dans l'antiquité (review)

Paul Potter
pp. 147-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0036
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Krankheitsbilder: im Liber de Plantis der Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) und im Speyerer Kraüterbuch (1456). Ein Beitrag zur medizinisch-pharmazeutischen Terminologie im Mittelalter. Vol. 1, Textband. Vol. 2, Indexband (review)

John M. Riddle
pp. 148-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0040
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Geschichte der Pharmazie. Vol. 1, Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters (review)

David L. Cowen
pp. 150-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0012
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La science médicale occidentale entre deux renaissances (XIIe s.-XVe s.) (review)

Karen Reeds
p. 152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0039
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Opera Medica Omnia. Vol. X.1. Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (review)

Walton O. Schalick III
pp. 153-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0045
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The Art of Medicine: Medical Teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400 (review)

Luke Demaitre
pp. 154-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0014
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Alchemomedizinische Briefe, 1585 bis 1597 (review)

Pamela H. Smith
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0046
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Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation (review)

Pamela H. Smith
pp. 157-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0047
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Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy (review)

Daniel A. Brownstein
pp. 158-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0009
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John Gregory's Writings on Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (review)

G. S. Rousseau
pp. 160-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0042
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History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (review)

G. S. Rousseau
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0043
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Lernen am Bett der Kranken: Die frühen Universitätskliniken in Deutschland (1760-1840) (review)

Axel Hinrich Murken
pp. 164-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0033
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Büchner and Madness: Schizophrenia in Georg Büchner's "Lenz" and "Woyzeck." (review)

Sander L. Gilman
pp. 165-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0019
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Letters from the Crimea (review)

Patricia D'Antonio
pp. 166-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0013
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Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War (review)

Thomas T. Provost
pp. 168-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0037
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An Atlas of Victorian Mortality (review)

Harry M. Marks
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0028
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Glasgow's Doctor: James Burn Russell, MOH, 1837-1904 (review)

Christopher Lawrence
p. 171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0025
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The Interfaces of Medicine and Law: The History of the Liability for Negligently Caused Psychiatric Injury (Nervous Shock) (review)

Allan Young
pp. 172-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0050
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John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology (review)

L. S. Jacyna
pp. 173-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0023
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The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (review)

Peter Melville Logan
pp. 174-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0027
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Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870 (review)

Martha H. Verbrugge
pp. 176-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0048
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (review)

Lois W. Banner
p. 178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0001
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Vergleichende Völkerpathologie oder Rassenpathologie: Tagebuch einer Reise durch Rußland und Transkaukasien (review)

Cay-Rüdiger Prüll
pp. 179-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0038
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Essays in the History of Eugenics (review)

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
pp. 180-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0029
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Darwinism Comes to America (review)

Cynthia Russett
pp. 184-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0044
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No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (review)

Gert H. Brieger
pp. 185-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0007
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Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology (review)

Joseph V. Brady, Nancy Heaton
pp. 186-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0005
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Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disease (review)

Edward T. Morman
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0032
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White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955 (review)

Jack Coulehan
pp. 189-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0011
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G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (review)

Ada Romaine-Davis
pp. 191-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0041
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Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland, and the History of the Red Cross (review)

John F. Hutchinson
pp. 193-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0022
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Paying for the Past: The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror (review)

Sheila Faith Weiss
pp. 194-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0049
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Blood: An Epic Story of Medicine and Commerce (review)

Susan E. Lederer
pp. 197-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0026
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Blood Pressure Measurement: An Illustrated History (review)

Joel D. Howell
pp. 198-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0021
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Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (review)

W. Bruce Fye
pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0018
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American Medicine and the Public Interest (review)

Gert H. Brieger
pp. 201-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0008
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Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940, and: Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (review)

Ellen More
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0031
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Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada (review)

Daniel M. Fox
pp. 207-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0017
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pp. 212-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0004
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Editors' Note

Gert H. Brieger, Jerome J. Bylebyl
p. vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0006
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Booknotes

pp. 208-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0003
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Contributors

pp. 218-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2000.0010
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