Issue 38
Summer 2008
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Feature article
Africa
Work in progress
Negotiating tradition African healers, medical competition and cultural exchange in South Africa, 1820-1948
Karen Flint
Of vaccines, conspiracy theories and reproduction
Barbara M Cooper
Dilemmas of modernity: Ayurvedic education in 20th-century Bengal
Projit Bihari Mukharji
John Buchan, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., and the case of the Glasgow Spy
Chris Beckett
Conference report
The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
Research resources
Web databases of historical epidemiology of modern Japan
Akihito Suzuki
Archiving Clinical Radiology in Manchester
James Peters
New publications
'Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market: The modern image of the Ayurvedic and Unani industry, 1980-2000'
by Maarten Bode
'Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah'
by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar
Book reviews
'Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer culture in China and Southeast Asia' by Sherman Cochran
Dr Kai Khiun Liew
'Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the natural world in colonial New York' by Sara Gronim
W F Bynum
'Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history' by Dorothy Crawford
Carole Reeves
'English Delftware Drug Jars: The collection of the museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain' by Briony Hudson
Karen Buckle