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Volume 47 - Issue 3 - July 2003

Articles

Beyond “Bad News”: The Diagnosis, Prognosis and Classification of Lymphomas and Lymphoma Patients in the Age of Biomedicine (1945–1995)

To Kill or not to Kill: The Eradication of Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia in Western Europe

Part of a Scientific Master Plan? Paul Ehrlich and the Origins of his Receptor Concept

More than Just a Propagandist for Tea: Religious Argument and Advice on a Healthy Life in the Work of the Dutch Physician Cornelis Bontekoe (1647–1685)

Illustrations from the Wellcome Collections. Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome

Obituary

Eric Gaskell

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Book Reviews

Daniel P Todes, Pavlov's physiology factory: experiment, interpretation, laboratory enterprise, Baltimore and London, John Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. xix, 488, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-8018-6690-1).

Maureen K Lux, Medicine that walks: disease, medicine, and Canadian plains native people, 1880–1940, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. xii, 300, illus., £35.00, US$50.00 (hardback 0-8020-4728-9), £12.00, US$22.95 (paperback 0-8020-8295-5).

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, No place like home: a history of nursing and home care in the United States, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 293, illus., £31.00 (hardback 0-8018-6598-0).

Klasien Horstman, Public bodies, private lives: the historical construction of life insurance, health risks, and citizenship in the Netherlands 1880–1920, transl. Ton Brouwers, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2001, pp. 211, €27.00 (paperback 90-5235-156-2).

Kirk Jeffrey, Machines in our hearts: the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xiii, 370, illus., £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-6579-4)

Barbara Clow, Negotiating disease: power and cancer care, 1900–1950, Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society Series, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, pp. xviii, 237, £18.95 (paperback 0-7735-2211-5).

Jock McCulloch, Asbestos blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa, African Issues series, Oxford, James Currey, and Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002, pp. xxvii, 223, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-85255-863-5), £12.95 (paperback 0-85255-862-7).

Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (eds), Historical and philosophical perspectives on biomedical ethics: from paternalism to autonomy?, Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, pp. xi, 159, £40.00 (hardback 0-7546-1529-4).

Dan Healey, Homosexual desire in revolutionary Russia: the regulation of sexual and gender dissent, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 392, illus., $40.00 (hardback 0-226-32233-5).

Arnold I Davidson, The emergence of sexuality: historical epistemology and the formation of concepts, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 254, illus., £27.50 (hardback 0-674-00459-0).

Farokh Erach Udwadia, Man and medicine: a history, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xvi, 496, illus., £31.50 (hardback 0-19-565457-9)

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct unbecoming a woman: medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xi, 292, £9.99 (paperback 0-19-513928-3).

Alphonse Daudet, In the land of pain, ed. and transl. Julian Barnes, London, Jonathan Cape, 2002, pp. xv, 87, £10.00 (hardback 0-224-06267-0).

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