Issue 37
Spring 2008
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Feature article
Florence Nightingale: the need for a reappraisal
Work in progress
The modern image of the Unani and Ayurvedic industry, c.1980-2000
Maarten Bode
The impact of Western Medicine on Hyderabad and its Unani
Omar Qureshi
The rise and fall of the Feingold diet for hyperactivity
Matthew Smith
New publication
'Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion'
by Michael H Cohen
Upcoming event
New WHO history seminar series
Thomas Prentice
UCL Centre
History of medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL
Harold J Cook
Genetics in Germany, 1900-50
Helga Satzinger
Food as a medical object in Paris, 1675-1815
Emma Spary
'Islamic' medicine as transregional medicine
Guy Attewell
Medieval concepts of the child
William Maclehose
Finding the lost children of Craig-y-nos
Carole Reeves
Conference report
Public enemy no.1: TB since 1800
Anna Crozier
Book reviews
'Vaccination Rediscovered' by Patrick Pead
Chris Papadopoulos
'Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library' by Nikolaj Serikoff
Guy Attewell
'Devices and Designs: Medical technologies in historical perspective' edited by Carsten Timmermann and Julie Anderson
Jane Seymour
'Rome or Death' by Daniel Pick
Alan Shiel
'Healing Bodies, Saving Souls' edited by David Hardiman
Thea Vidnes