Book Reviews
Reviews in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. The reviews listed below relate to Medical History.
Medicine
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine
Edited by Professor Roy Porter
Reviewed by Graham Mooney
Authors Response
Medicine in the English Middle Ages
by Faye Getz
Reviewed by: Peregrine Horden
Public Health
Health, Civilisation and the State: a History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times
by Dorothy Porter
Review by Professor Gert H. Brieger
Author's Response
Mental Health
Masters of Bedlam. The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
by Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie and Nicholas Hervey
Reviewed by Jonathan Andrews
Response from Andrew Scull
Suicide in the Middle Ages. Volume I: The Violent against Themselves
by Alexander Murray
Reviewed by: Ralph Houlbrooke
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe
Reviewed by: Anne Borsay
Author's Response
Suicide in the Middle Ages. Vol. II, The Curse on Self-Murder
by Alexander Murray
Reviewed by: David d'Avray
Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism
by James H. Mills
Reviewed by: Satadru Sen
Author's Response
Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
by David Wright
Reviewed by Mark Jackson
Plague, Epidemics and Contagion
King Death The Black Death and its aftermath in late-medieval England
by Colin Platt
Reviewed by Phillipp Schofield
Author's Response
Plagues: Their origin, history and future
by Christopher Wills
Reviewed by Chris Galley
Author's Response
Contagion. Disease Government and the 'Social Question' in Nineteenth-Century France
by Andrew R. Aisenberg
Reviewed by: Pam Pilbeam
Author's Response
Epidemics and History: Disease Power and Imperialism
by Sheldon Watts
Reviewed by: Michael Worboys
Author's Response
Sexual Health and Fertility
Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860-1940
by Simon Szreter
Reviewed by Michael Mason
Author's Response
The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics
by Chris Nottingham
Reviewed by: Lesley A. Hall
Author's Response
Sex, Sin and Suffering. Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870
Edited by Roger Davidson and Lesley Hall
Reviewed by: Virginia Berridge