Issue 33
Winter 2006
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Feature article
Birthing a slave child: black mothers and white doctors
Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Work in progress
The local and beyond: the shifting terrains of unani tibb in India, c.1890-1930
Guy Attewell
Disease, labour and habitation: the tea plantations of Darjeeling and Duars, 1860-1960
Nandini Bhattacharya
Modern medicine and the Sherpa of Khumbu: exploring the histories of Khunde Hospital 1966-98
Susan Heydon
A phoenix rising: the social history of Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, 1942
Simonne Horwitz
Conrad Gesner's correspondence: epistolary practices and medical knowledge in 16th-century Europe
Candice Delisle
Everyday nature: knowledge of the natural world in colonial New York
Sara Stidstone Gronim
Sports medicine: a tale of two halves
Vanessa Heggie and Neil Carter
New publication
'Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the transcolonial world'
edited by Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy
Conference reports
Working with dust: health, dust and diseases in the history of occupational health
Debbie Palmer
Maternal health in the 20th century: international perspectives
Ornella Moscucci
Health and disease in Asia
Gregory Clancey
Research resources
The Fair Mile Hospital archive
Kate Tyte
Book reviews
'Fractured States: Smallpox, public health and vaccination policy in British India, 1800-1947
Andrea Rusnock
What is Medical History?
Liew Kai Khiun
Medicine, Public Health and the Qajar State: Patterns of medical modernization in 19th century Iran
Seema Alavi
Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang medical manuscripts
Chen Ming
Announcements
Conference: The World and Lady Mary – Gender, medicine and culture in the time of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu c.1690-1765