Issue 4
March 1997
Editorial
Roy Porter
Teaching column
Madness and Society in Modern Europe, 1789-1945
Paul Lerner
News from the centres
Diet, Disease and Death
David Smith
The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Glasgow
Johanna Geyer-Kordesch
New MA in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
Jonathan Andrews
Work in progress
Victorian Invalid Literature
Maria Frawley
The Changing Fortunes of the General Paralytic
Juliet Hurn
Diseases and Medicine in the Aegean Bronze Age
Roberts Arnott
Forthcoming conferences
Insanity, Institutions and Society: New research in the social history of medicine
Joseph Melling
Health in the City: A history of public health
Helen Power and Sally Sheard
Medicine and the Glandular Vision of Life
Chris Lawrence and Chandak Sengoopta
Psychoanalysing Robert Boyle
Michael Hunter
Conference reports
Race, Science and Medicine. 'Racial' categories and the production of medical knowledge
Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris
Exhibition
Doctor Death: Medicine at the end of life
Ken Arnold and Denna Jones
Archives
The Medical Archives and Manuscript Survey
Christopher Hilton
Traveller's tales
Cranes, Bagels and Guilt in a Changing Berlin
Paul Lerner
Personal view
Not Putting the Record Straight: Reflection on medical biography
Mike Barfoot
Frames of Reference
David Zuck
New PhD
Opium, Lithiontriptics and the Bark
Andreas Holger Maehle
Remedies and therapies
Recipe
Natsu Hattori