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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81.4 (2007) 931-934

Index to Volume 81

Articles

Special Issue: Cancer in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century / 1
David Cantor

Part I: Between Education and Marketing

Uncertain Enthusiasm: The American Cancer Society, Public Education, and the Problems of the Movie, 1921–1960 / 39
David Cantor
"For Jimmy and the Boys and Girls of America:" Publicizing Childhood Cancers in Twentieth-Century America / 70
Gretchen Krueger
Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film / 94
Susan E. Lederer
"Cancer as the General Population Knows It": Knowledge, Fear, and Lay Education in 1950s Britain / 116
Elizabeth Toon

Part II: Therapeutics

The "Ineffable Freemasonry of Sex": Feminist Surgeons and the Establishment of Radiotherapy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain / 139
Ornella Moscucci
Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century/ 164
John V. Pickstone
Cancer Clinical Trials: The Emergence and Development of a New Style of Practice / 197
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio
Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner's Attack on Breast-Cancer Chemotherapy / 224
Barron H. Lerner [End Page 931]

Part III: Prevention and Risk

Breast Cancer and the "Materiality of Risk": The Rise of Morphological Prediction / 241
Ilana Löwy
From Cancer Families to HNPCC: Henry Lynch and the Transformations of Hereditary Cancer, 1975–1999 / 267
Raul Necochea
Medicine and the Public: The 1962 Report of the Royal College of Physicians and the New Public Health / 286
Virginia Berridge
As Depressing as It Was Predictable? Lung Cancer, Clinical Trials, and the Medical Research Council in Postwar Britain / 312
Carsten Timmermann
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Balancing Individual and Communal Needs: Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville / 335
Kristy Wilson Bowers
Parsimony, Power, and Prescriptive Legislation: The Politics of Pauper Lunacy in Northamptonshire, 1845–1876 / 359
Catherine Smith
Crafting Medical History: Revisiting the "Definitive" Account of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Terminal Illness / 386
Barron H. Lerner
Vikings against Tuberculosis: The International Tuberculosis Campaign in India, 1948–1951 / 407
Niels Brimnes
Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Social Medicine, and the History of Medicine / 511
Charles E. Rosenberg
"The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration / 533
Roberta Bivins
Teamwork, Clinical Research, and the Development of Scientific Medicines in Interwar Britain: The "Glasgow School" Revisited / 569
Andrew J. Hull [End Page 932]
Healthcare Reconsidered: Forging Community Wellness among African Americans in the South / 594
Jennifer Nelson
Presidential Address: The Doctor Was Surprised; Or, How to Diagnose a Miracle / 699
Jacalyn Duffin
Lying-in and Laying-out: Fetal Health and the Contribution of Midwifery / 730
Robert Woods
Scientific Method for Medical Practitioners: The Case Method of Teaching Pathology in Early Twentieth-Century Edinburgh / 760
Steve Sturdy
Biotypology, Endocrinology, and Sterilization: The Practice of Eugenics in the Treatment of Argentinian Women during the 1930s / 793
Yolanda Eraso
Review Essay: Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine / 823
Richard C. Keller
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Eightieth Annual Meeting / 625
Todd L. Savitt

Editors' Notes / v (Spring), iii (Winter)

Instructions for Authors / iv (Spring)

News and Events / 431, 647, 842

Media Reviews / 436, 848

Exhibit Essay Review:

"Faux Reality" Show? The Body Worlds Phenomenon and Its Reinvention of Anatomical Spectacle / 848
J. T. H. Connor

Book Reviews / 445, 652, 866

Book Notes / 496, 691, 908

Books Received / 499, 693, 910

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