TABLE OF CONTENTS:
ARTICLES:
Good, Common, Regular, and Orderly: Early Modern Classifications of Monstrous Births - ALAN W. BATES

Practitioners’ Income and Provision for the Poor: Parish Doctors in the late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries- SAMANTHA WILLIAMS

Evil Necessaries and Abominable Erections: Public Conveniences and Private Interests in the Scottish City, 1830-1870 -DEBORAH BRUNTON

Beating the Flu: Orthodox and Commercial Responses to Influenza in Britain, 1889-1919- LORI LOEB

The Early History of Tissue Culture in Britain: The Interwar Years- DUNCAN WILSON

Coasts and Coalfields: The Geographical Distribution of Doctors in England and Wales in the 1930s - MARTIN POWELL

A Professional Myth: Personal Continuity of Care and New Zealand General Practice in the Twentieth Century - MARJAN KLJAKOVIC and MELANIE NOLAN

‘Big White Chief’, ‘Pontius Pilate’, and the ‘Plumber’: The Impact of the 1967 Abortion Act on the Scottish Medical Community, c. 1967-80 - GAYLE DAVIS and ROGER DAVIDSON

REVIEW ARTICLE:
Medical History as a Way of Life - JOHN V. PICKSTONE

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