Table Of Content

TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 72 ARTICLES Cultural Divergence: Elie MetchnikofTs Bacillus bulgaricus Therapy and his Underlying Concept of Health / 1 Scott Podolsky Kupat Holim, Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow, and the American Zionist Medical Unit’s Experiment to Establish Health Care Services in Palestine, 1918-1923 / 28 Shifra Shvarts and Theodore M. Brown “Repeated Disappointment”: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Reform of the Greek Public Health System, 1929-1940 / 47 Dimitra Giannuli Presidential Address: Psychiatry’s Holy Grail: The Search for the Mechanisms of Mental Diseases / 189 Gerald N. Grob Teaching Obstetrics at Home: Medical Schools and Home Delivery Services in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / 220 Charlotte G. Borst “Confusion’s Masterpiece”: The Development of the Physician Assistant Profession / 246 Natalie Holt The Development of the Office of Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health, 1991-1996 / 279 James Harvey Young Intentional Ignorance: A History of Blind Assessment and Placebo Controls in Medicine / 389 TedJ. Kaptchuk Abraham Jacobi and German Medical Radicalism in Antebellum New York / 434 Russell Viner A Crippling Fear: Experiencing Polio in the Era of FDR / 464 Daniel J. Wilson Medieval Notions of Cancer: Malignancy and Metaphor / 609 Luke Demaitre 854 INDEX Bull. Hist. Med., 1998, 72 Between Seduction and Libido: Sigmund Freud’s Masturbation Hypotheses and the Realignment of His Etiologic Thinking, 1897-1905 / 638 George J. Makari The Clinic as Laboratory: The Case of Radiation Therapy, 1896-1920 / 663 Charles R. R. Hayter “And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men”: Gender and Occupational Health during World War 11 / 689 Allison L. Hepler Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk / 714 Charles E. Rosenberg NOTES AND COMMENTS The Manuscript Consultation Reports of Francesco Torti / 73 Saul Jarcho On the Naming of Rickettsiae after Paul Ehrlich / 731 Arthur M. Silverstein NETNOTES: MEDICAL HISTORY ON THE INTERNET Medical History from Midcoast Maine / 299 Patricia G. Kahn and Richard J. Kahn Teaching the History of Medicine in Cyberspace / 734 Kathleen W. Jones and Russell C. Maulitz editors’ notes / vii (Spring), vii (Summer) INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS / viii (Spring) American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Seventy-first Annual Meeting / 496 Todd L. Savitt NEWS AND EVENTS / 75, 303, 512, 744 INDEX Bull. Hist. Med., 1998, 72 855 ESSAY REVIEWS New Approaches to the History of Health and Welfare / 83 Dorothy Porter Looking for the Answer / 94 Nancy Whitten Zinn Where Is the Postcolonial History of Medicine? / 522 Warwick Anderson BOOK REVIEWS / 105, 310, 531, 753 BOOK NOTES / 176, 373, 597, 824 BOOKS RECEIVED / 179, 379, 602, 830 CONTRIBUTORS / 187, 386, 608, 834 SUBJECT INDEX-VOLUME 72 / 837