Issue 30
Autumn 2005
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Feature article
Empirical quagmires
J E Keelan
Work in progress
Plantation medicine in colonial Malaya: Indian rubber plantation workers, estate hospitals and worker's health, 1900-1950
Amarjit Kaur
A history for 'ghosts': Contextualising AVR therapy in Zambia
Lyn Schumaker
The first vaccinator's 'lost' portrait is found
Patrick J Pead
Travelling dispensaries and rural health visits in British Malaysia (1896-1960s)
Kai Khiun Liew
History of science and medicine through fungi
Aya Homei
Conference reports
Human reproduction and embryo research
Victoria Blake
Long-term changes in health and disease
Bernard Harris
History in public health workshops at the LSHTM
Ornella Moscucci
New publication
'Fractured States: Smallpox, public health and vaccination policy in British India, 1800-1947'
by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison and Michael Worboys
Book reviews
'The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century'
Stephen Casper
The institutionalisation of medical history in Germany
Claudia Stein
'Dental Practice in Europe at the End of the 18th Century'
Nandini Bhattacharya
'Nature in the Global South: Environmental projects in South and South East Asia'
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
'Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony: Ceylon (1900-1948)'
Maarten Bode
'The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating occupational disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain'
Andrew Hull
Vignette
A personal tale of a physician's journey to history's gate
David M Israel