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State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma
Atsuko Naono's book State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma has just been published by Orient BlackSwan.
Dr Jane Adams at the Cheltenham Literary Festival
Dr Jane Adams joined authors Claire Hickman and Janet Todd at the Cheltenham Literary Festival recently to explore the practice of 'taking the waters' at English spas ...
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Dr Sarah Hodges' book Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control in South India, 1920-1940 has just been published by Ashgate.
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation...