Virtual Issue of Social History of Medicine, marking the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference 'Disease, Health and the State'.

Virtual Issue of Social History of Medicine, marking the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference 'Disease, Health and the State'.

Guest editors Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard hand-pick 20 articles and 18 book reviews from our back issues. All articles and reviews are free to access until 8 August 2014 and can also be found here.

Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard
Introduction

Articles
Paul Slack
Dearth and Social Policy in Early Modern England

Harold J. Cook
Policing the Health of London: the College of Physicians and the Early Stuart Monarchy

Simon Szreter
The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: a Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health

F. B. Smith
The Contagious Diseases Acts Reconsidered

Nadja Durbach
‘They Might As Well Brand Us’: Working-Class Resistance to Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England

E. P. Hennock
Vaccination Policy Against Smallpox, 1835–1914: A Comparison of England with Prussia and Imperial Germany

Jane Lewis
Presidential Address: Family Provision of Health and Welfare in the Mixed Economy of Care in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Margaret Jones
Infant and Maternal Health Services in Ceylon, 1900–1948: Imperialism or Welfare?

Seán Lang
Drop the Demon Dai: Maternal Mortality and the State in Colonial Madras, 1840–1875

Susan Gross Solomon
The Limits of Government Patronage of Sciences: Social Hygiene and the Soviet State, 1920-1930

Patrice Pinell
Cancer Policy and the Health System in France: "Big Medicine" Challenges the Conception and Organization of Medical Practice

Ornella Moscucci
The British Fight against Cancer: Publicity and Education, 1900–1948

Liping Bu
Public Health and Modernisation: The First Campaigns in China, 1915 –1916

Henk Van Der Velden
The Dutch Health Services before Compulsory Health Insurance, 1900-1941

Martin Gorsky
The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography

Anne Digby
‘Vision and Vested Interests’: National Health Service Reform in South Africa and Britain during the 1940s and Beyond

Rosemary Stevens
History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948–2008

John Welshman
Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965

John Abraham and Courtney Davis
Discovery and Management of Adverse Drug Reactions: The Nomifensine Hypersensitivity Syndrome, 1977–1986

Heli Leppälä
Duty to Entitlement: Work and Citizenship in the Finnish Post-War Disability Policy, early 1940s to 1970

Book Reviews
Sean Brady
Roger Davidson and Gayle Davis, The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950–80

Rohan Deb Roy
Ka-che Yip (ed.), Disease, Colonialism and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History

Ann Zulawski
Jonathan D. Ablard, Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880–1983

Gayle Davis
Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914

Greta Jones
James Colgrove, State of Immunity. The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America

David S. Parker
Julia Rodriguez, Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State

Fiona Clark
Adam Warren, Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms

Debra Blumenthal
Michele L. Clouse, Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's Spain: Shared Interests, Competing Authorities

James A. Schafer, Jr.
Simon Finger, The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia

Tracey L. Adams
Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century

Geoffrey Rivett
Emma L. Jones and John V. Pickstone, The Quest for Public Health in Manchester: The Industrial City, the NHS and the Recent History

Anne Hardy
Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman (eds), Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century

Sally Sheard
Marjaana Niemi, Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940

Janet Greenlees
Criena Fitzgerald, Kissing Can Be Dangerous: The Public Health Campaigns to Prevent and Control Tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900–1960

Mark Harrison
Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson (eds), Public Health in Asia and the Pacific. Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Michael French
Keir Waddington, The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, 1850–1914

Mark Harrison
Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Krishna Soman (eds), Maladies, Preventives and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India

Mark B. Smith
Charlotte E. Henze, Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga, 1823–1914