| Contents | Health and History, 1.1 | The History Cooperative

Volume 1 • Number 1

1998

Editors' Note

Symposium: Writing the History of Disease

Introduction	1
Emily Booth

How do we Write the History of Disease?	5
James T Patterson

Disease, Culture and History	30
Warwick Anderson

Narrating the Body: Disease as Interpersonal Event	35
Kay Torney Souter

How do we Write a Nursing History of Disease?	43
Sioban Nelson

Articles

The Making of Doctors: The Extern Case Books 1921-1935	48
Janet McCalman

Research Note

Surgeon's Mate Lowes of H.M.S. Sirius and the First Fleet	65
John Pearn

Obituary

Robert Andrew Douglas
John Pearn

Book Reviews

Lynette Hunter & Sarah Hutton, eds.Women, Science and Medicine 1500- 1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society Emily Booth	74

Janet McCalman Sex and Suffering Women's Health and a Women's Hospital: The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne 1856-1996. Gwynned Hunter-Payne	76

Emma Russell. Bricks or Spirit? The Queen Victoria Hospital Melbourne. Monika Wells	80

Edward Shorter. A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. Peter Winterton	82

Howard J. Falconer and Virginia D. Pruitt, eds. Dear Dr. Menninger: Women's Voices from the Thirties. Simon Cooke	83

Jack D. Pressman. Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine. Ann Westmore	86

John Cawte. The Last of the Lunatics. Janice Chesters	88

Gunnar Broberg & Nils Roll-Hansen, eds. Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ross Jones	90

Charles Webster. The National Health Service: A Political History James Gillespie	92

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