Issue 17
July 2001
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New online resource
MAMS Online
R Aspin
New project
Receptors in historical perspective
A H Maehle, R F Halliwell and C R Pruell
Work in progress
Landscapes for the mind: English asylum landscapes, 1808-1914
S Rutherford
Forthcoming conferences
From Urban Penalty to Global Crisis: Current issues in the history of tuberculosis
F Condrau and M Worboys
‘The Rising Dawn’: The contribution of alchemy to medieval medicine and intellectual life
The Normal and the Abnormal: Historical and cultural perspectives on normas and edeviations
C Sengoopta and W Ernst
Sex and Madness: Psychiatric conceptions and treatments of sexuality
M Gijswijt-Hofstra, G Hekma and H Oosterhuis
History of Medicine
N Sari and Y Isil Ulman
Conference reports
Health Promotion in Historical and Contemporary Context
K Loughlin
Science, Policy and Practice: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical dimensions
V Berridge
Hospitals and Health: The balance sheet
E Phillips
Book review
Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on colonial India
I J Kerr
Publication for review
Municipal Medicine: Public health in twentieth-century Britain
Ladies of the Grand Tour: Enlightenment and improvement in European travel
Archival and web resources
Epact Online
Free copies and reprints
Medical archives in Edinburgh
Bibliography on ‘Electricity in Life’ available on the
Bakken website
Archives and Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library
Free Guide to Virtual Resources
A guide to contemporary medical archives in the Wellcome Library
Vignette
Learning to be a doctor: The flying squad
A Dally
Research and job opportunities
Teaching HOM
Distance learning in the history of medicine
Public information
Library closure
New HOM manager
Grants news
Letters
Unites news and updates
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