Issue 7
December 1997

Introduction

Teaching column

Teaching History in a Medical School
Virginia Berridge

Medicine, Literature and Culture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Ireland
James McGeachie

Work in progress

The King's Evil and the Royal Touch in England, 1625-1800
Mark Gosbee

Research on Modern Patient Records
Joseph Melling

A Feverish Enterprise
Constance E Putnam

In Quest of Allergy
Mark Jackson

The Biochemical Laboratory of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1920-1939
Chris Lawrence, Mike Barfoot and Steve Sturdy

Thinking about Women in Late Roman Medicine
Rebecca Flemming

Europe

Medicine as a Social Practice - European Dimensions, East and West, 1945-1995
Ilana Löwy

Forthcoming conferences

Call for Papers: 'Expertise Constructed: Didactic literature in the British Atlantic world 1500-1800'
Sara Pennell

Using Bodies: Humans in the service of twentieth-century medicine
Lara Marks

History of Nursing Conference and Colloquium
Lori Williamson and Helen Sweet

Conference reports

Psychoanalysing Robert Boyle
Kathleen Whalen

'A Dance to the Music of Bethlem'. Symposium on the history of Bethlem, 1247-1997
Alexander Goldbloom

From the centres

The Sheffield Centre for the History of Medicine
Mark Harrison

The History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham
Robert Arnott

History of Medicine at Edinburgh
Steve Sturdy

News

Changes in the Pattern of History of Medicine Units: A note from the Chairman of the History of Medicine Committee
Peter Haggett

Wellcome News at UEA
Carole Rawcliffe and Steven Cherry

Centre for the History and Culture of Medicine at SOAS
Christopher Cullen

Jo and Jim: Marriage of Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Director of the Glasgow Wellcome Unit, and James Paterson, 7 August 1997
Fiona MacDonald

Clio Consulted: The history of medicine and tomorrow's doctors school
Vivian Nutton

Appeal for Historians of Medicine in Wales
Pam Michael

Personal opinion

Illustration Techniques: Aquatint Irvine Loudon Bad Cuisine: Thomas Browne's 'receipt to make a dieull'
Alexander Goldbloom

Archive and libraries

The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS)
Peter Harper

Automated Resources in the Institute Library
David Pearson

New books

'Take Time by the Forelock': The letters of Anthony Fothergill to James Woodford, 1789-1813
Chris Lawrence

Medicine and Social Science in the Twentieth Century
Dorothy Porter

Book reviews

Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern culture
Ann Dally

The Royals
Ann Dally

Christmas quiz

Roy Porter

Visitors to the Wellcome Institute

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