Wellcome History issue 39

Winter 2008

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Face transplantation
Ayesha Nathoo

Manchester Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Michael Worboys

The history of intensive care in Britain
Alice Nicholls

The national stomach: abdominal illness in Britain, c.1800-50
Ian Miller

Recollections of organisational change in the NHS: the Manchester experience, 1980-2007
Stephanie J Snow

Managing morals: animal experimentation and animal welfare in Britain, c.1947-86
Rob Kirk

From rheumatism epidemiology to genetic engineering: the Manchester story
Miguel García-Sancho

Driven to destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Duncan Wilson and Ed Ramsden

Health and a colony in transition: Trinidad and Tobago, 1938-62
Debbie McCollin

The Importance of Medical History
Rohan Deb Roy

A database of Italian charlatans, 1550-1800
David Gentilcore

‘Superbugs and Superdrugs: A history of MRSA’, edited by L A Reynolds and E M Tansey.

‘The Vaccinators: Smallpox, medical knowledge and the ‘opening’ of Japan’ by Ann Jannetta
Niels Brimnes

‘Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South’ by Marie Schwartz
Andrew Wear

'Viruses vs Superbugs: A solution to the antibiotics crisis?' by Thomas Häusler
G Narasimha Raghavan

‘British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830’, edited by Geoffrey Hudson