Original Articles

Polio Vaccine Struggles: FAIR and the Failed Reintroduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine, 1975–1985
Baptiste Baylac-Paouly; Jan Hendriks; Stuart Blume

The Consilia by Learned Physicians Pietro Andrea Mattioli and Francesco Partini: Dialectic Relations between Doctrine, Empirical Knowledge and Use of the Senses in Sixteenth-century Europe
Alessandra Quaranta

Black Healers, Surgeons and ‘Witches’: Medicine, Mobility and Knowledge Exchange in Swedish St Barthélemy 1785–1815
Fredrik Thomasson

Eucalyptus Acclimatisation for Fighting Malaria: Environmental and Medical Experiments in the Iberian Nineteenth Century
Ignacio García-Pereda; Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Antiseptics leave the Clinic—The Introduction of (Puerperal) Prophylaxis in Austrian Midwifery Education (1870s–1880s)
Marina Hilber

Towards a Medical Utopia: Medicine, Politics and Citizenship in Post-Unified Italy (1861–1910)
Cristiano Turbil

The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England
Melissa Reynolds

The Ageing Body, Memory-Loss and Suicide in Georgian England
Ella Sbaraini

Desirable Bodies and Eugen Sandow’s Curative Institute in Edwardian England
Conor Heffernan

Spare Rib, The British Women’s Health Movement and the Empowerment of Misery
Zoe Strimpel

Vision Testing in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Opticians, Medical Practitioners and the Battle for Professional Authority
Gemma Almond

Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain
Ryosuke Yokoe

Household Sanitary Inspection, Mosquito Control and Domestic Hygiene in the Gold Coast [Ghana] from the Late-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah

Continuities in State–Society Interactions across Broad Spatio-temporal Realms: Gong Tingxian as Both an Author of Popular Medical Texts and an Imperial Medical Secretary in Early Modern China
Sare Aricanli

Book Reviews

Sharon T. Strocchia, Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (I Tatti Studies in Renaissance History)
Meredith K Ray

Anne M. Scott and Michael David Barbezat (eds), Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Pre-Modern Europe: Bodies, Blood and Tears in Literature, Theology and Art
Bettina Bildhauer

Theresa A. Vaughan, Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages. Balancing the Humours
Paloma Moral de Calatrava

Aleksandra Pfau, Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Julie Singer

Margaret Delacy, Contagionism Catches On: Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730–1800
Matthew Newsom Kerr

Timothy James Lockley, Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874
Erica Wald

James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science 1815–1920
Carla Bittel

Mari Webel, The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920
Rachel Conner; Melissa Graboyes

Arleen Marcia Tuchman, Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
Chris Feudtner

Iwo Amelung (ed.), Discourses of Weakness in Modern China: Historical Diagnoses of the ‘Sick Man of East Asia’
Carlos Rojas

Coreen McGuire, Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standard for Disability in the Interwar Period
Dan Bouk

Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore (eds), Balancing The Self: Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century
Louise Morgan

Robert Baker, The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
Duncan Wilson

Carolyn Merchant. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
James Dunk

David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
Henry Cowles

Jonathon Shears, The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History
Mark Hailwood