Book reviewB. Calder. William Heinemann, London, UK, 2016, ISBN 978-0-434-02244-1, £25·00, 406 pp.

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

U . K . Isbn : 978 - 988 - 18210 - 1 - 0 Wce 2009

Intensive research in bio-engineering has been conducted in the search for flexible biomaterials that could support cell growth and cells attachment. Flexible synthetic materials that support cell growth without the aid of synthetic extracellular matrix proteins are still rare. Cholesteryl liquid crystal containing cholesteryl moieties may have suitable biological affinity. Human keratinocytes ...

Judith Godden, Crown Street Women's Hospital: A History, 1893-1983 (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London: Allen & Unwin, 2016), pp. xi, 382, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-74331-840-9.

rhetoric buoyed by the support of violent youth groups, both significant components of the fascist push for national rejuvenation. Negative measures like sterilisation – so popular in other countries at the time – were overlooked in favour of positive racial hygiene that placed ‘physical education on a par with academic training’ and encouraged citizens to start ‘large, “valuable” families’ (p....

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.