Wellcome History issue 40
Spring 2009
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Feature article
Mortal questions: Uruguay's infant mortality conundrum
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Oxford Unit
Spotlight on the history of medicine at the University of Oxford
Mark Harrison
A veterinary and epidemiological history of rabies in southern Africa
Karen Brown
The social history of veterinary medicine in South Africa since 1930
Karen Brown
Using tropical resources to make medical products: colonial products research c.1940-65
Sabine Clarke
Trauma and personhood in late colonial Kenya
Sloan Mahone
Barbering, gender and personal services in early modern England
Margaret Pelling
Public health in the Caribbean, 1850-1960
Duncan Wilson and Ed Ramsden
Disease and mortality in the late-19th century Royal Navy
Vaughan Dutton
Evolution, eugenics and Christian mission; health and welfare in transition: London and New York, c.1865-1940
Graham Baker
'Patient Zero' and the assignment of blame in epidemics
Richard McKay
Changing research priorities: planning the global fight against cancer
Yonina Murciano-Goroff
Work in progress
South Asian-trained geriatricians in the UK
Leroi Henry
Darwin and the blush
Ray Crozier
Conference report
Healthcare and the people
John Stewart
Research resources
The Broadmoor Hospital archive
Kate Tyte
New publications
'Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some revelations in imperial contexts' edited by Poonam Bala.
'Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals at home and in the world' by Machulika Banerjee.
'The Embalmer's Book of Recipes' by Ann Lingard.
'The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals' by Charles Darwin; new edition edited by Joe Cain and Sharon Messenger.
Book reviews
'The Education of the Eye: History of the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838-1881' by Brenda Weeden
Ross MacFarlane
'Maritime Quarantine' by John Booker
Akihito Suzuki