Issue 16
March 2001
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New centre
The Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham Medical School
Robert Arnott
New project
Rethinking the history of Medicine: ‘Magic’ in the Graeco-Roman world and in ancient Mesopotamia
P van der Eijk
Work in progress
Changing perceptions of the conjoined body: A social and cultural history, c.1800-2000
S Mitchell
The vegetarian movement in Britain, c.1830-1901
J Gregory
The political economy of hospital provision: Middlesbrough, 1900-1948
B M Doyle
Prize Essay
Society for the Social History of Medicine 2001 Prize Essay competitions
D Cantor
Forthcoming conferences
‘Models of Personality and the Limits of Human Agency’
R Hayward
Approaches to Ancient Medicine
H King
European Health and the Second World War: Exile, occupation and post-war reconstruction
P Weindling
Representing Emotions: ‘Evidence, arousal and analysis’
P Gouk
Imperialism, Medicine and South Asia
S Bhattacharya and B Pati
Hannah International Conference on the History of Mental Illness
D Wright
Conference reports
Approaches to Ancient Medicine
P van der Eijk
Psychology, Contemporary History and Human Nature
F Neary
Good Airs and Bad: Historical perspectives on the atmosphere in relation to health and medicine
A McAuley Brownfield Pope
Book reviews
Pathologies of Travel
K Arnold
Understanding Pauper Lunacy without Medical Experts?
J Andrews
Publication outlets
New Perspectives in South Asian History
Rutgers University Press
New publications
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
A History of Surgery
Holism and the Understanding of Science
Health, Medicine and Empire
Archival and web resources
A telling of wonders: Teratology in Western medicine through 1800
E Morman
Victorian medicine and health
L Hall
Developing historical programmes
P Maples
Histmed
Research resources in medical history
Research Council for Complementary Medicine database: CISCOM
H Wicks
Vignette
Two grandes dames of medicine
A Dally
Jobs and research opportunities
Recent awards in the History of Medicine
Unit news and updates
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