Wellcome History issue 41
Summer 2009
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Feature article
Men with a mission: Early physicians in British East Africa
Thomas P Ofcansky and Britt L Ehrhardt
Exeter Centre
Spotlight on the history of medicine at the University of Exeter
Joseph Melling
Historical erotica in Wellcome’s collection
Kate Fisher and Rebeca Langlands
A study of anxiety and depression
Ali Haggett
The medicalisation of maladjustment
Sarah Hayes
The history of stress: Medical research and contested knowledge in the 20th century
Joseph Melling
Rewriting the system of nature: Linnaeus’s use of writing technologies
Staffan Muller-Wille
Sex, health and medicine in early modern England, c.1540–1725
Sarah Toulalan
Hippocratic lessons for modern health
John Wilkins
Conference reports
Fracturing Colonial Medicine
Ana Crozier
Making history at the WHO
Thomson Prentice
Research resources
The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Briony Hudson
American foundations in Europe
John Stewart
Diabetes Stories - an oral history website
Helen Lloyd
New publications
State of Vaccination: The fight against smallpox in colonial Burma
Atsuko Naono
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global histories, contemporary debates
Edited by Harold J Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Anne Hardy
Book reviews
Medicine-by-post: The changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consultation letters and literature
Keith Williams
Sir Thomas Browne: The world proposed
Harold J Cok
Control and the Therapeutic Trial: Rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918-1948
Shinjini Das
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market: The modern image of the Ayurvedic and Unani industry 1980–2000
Margaret Jones
Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion
Amna Khalid
Conference announcement
Shrines, Substances and Medicine in Africa: Archaeological, anthropological and historical perspectives
Friday 18 September 2009, 09.30-17.30 Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London