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A leading journal in its field for more than three quarters of a century, the Bulletin spans the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine worldwide. Every issue includes reviews of recent books on medical history. Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.
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Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016Table of Contents
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View “The Weight of Perhaps Ten or a Dozen Human Lives”: Suicide, Accountability, and the Life-Saving Technologies of the Asylum
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View The “Ice Age” of Anatomy and Obstetrics: Hand and Eye in the Promotion of Frozen Sections around 1900
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View “A Greater Earnestness of Purpose and a More Militant Spirit”: Physicians and Medical Relief in 1930s Michigan
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View Rheumatism: Its History from Paleo-Pathology to the Advent of Experimental Science by Thomas G. Benedek (review)
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Rheumatism: Its History from Paleo-Pathology to the Advent of Experimental Science by Thomas G. Benedek (review)
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View Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period ed. by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye, and: Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period ed. by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (review)
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Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period ed. by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye, and: Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period ed. by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (review)
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View Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses ed. by Benjamin Elman (review)
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Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses ed. by Benjamin Elman (review)
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View Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England by Olivia Weisser (review)
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View Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients ed. by Martin Dinges et al. (review)
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View For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala by Martha Few (review)
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View A History of Midwifery in the United States: The Midwife Said Fear Not by Helen Varney and Joyce Beebe Thompson (review)
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A History of Midwifery in the United States: The Midwife Said Fear Not by Helen Varney and Joyce Beebe Thompson (review)
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View Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America by Catherine L. Thompson (review)
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View Epidemics, Empire and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910 by Michael Zeheter (review)
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Epidemics, Empire and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910 by Michael Zeheter (review)
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View Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States, 1850–2000: Mycoses and Modernity by Aya Homei and Michael Worboys (review)
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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States, 1850–2000: Mycoses and Modernity by Aya Homei and Michael Worboys (review)
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View Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870–1960 by David Sowell (review)
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View Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940: The Forgotten History by Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala (review)
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Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940: The Forgotten History by Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala (review)
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View Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines by Katja Guenther (review)
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Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines by Katja Guenther (review)
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View Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940: Contagions of Feeling by Srirupa Prasad (review)
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Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940: Contagions of Feeling by Srirupa Prasad (review)
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View Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany by Heather R. Perry (review)
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View Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System by Christy Ford Chapin (review)
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View The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany by Greg Eghigian (review)
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View Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century ed. by Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille, and Edmund Ramsden (review)
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View The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century ed. by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ulrike Thoms (review)
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View Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America by Jessica Martucci (review)
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View The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China by Everett Yuehong Zhang (review)
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| ISSN | 1086-3176 |
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| Print ISSN | 0007-5140 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2016-12-16 |
| Open Access | No |
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