Underclass: A History of the Excluded since 1880 (2nd edn) By JohnWelshman London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 978-1-78093-570-6; £22.99 (pbk).

Rank, reinvention and the Nobel Prize Experiment Eleven Peter Pringle (Bloomsbury Publishing, London; 2012) ISBN 978-1-4008-1401-7

The story of streptomycin is no ordinary tale. On August 23rd, 1943, in an isolated basement room, a brave and determined graduate student, Albert Schatz, began his quest to cure tuberculosis. He, with his soil bacteria and virulent tubercle bacilli, was banished to that room by his supervisor Selman Waksman, who, like everyone else, dreaded the infection. Waksman never visited Schatz’s workroo...

‘ Problem families ’ and their history since 1880 by John Welshman

 Executive summary  What is the chronology of the „underclass‟ debate in the United Kingdom and the United States, from 1880 to the present?  Which individuals and groups have been doing the defining?  Is it basically the same idea that has been invented and re-invented in a linear process?  How and why do these concepts emerge?  What is the impact of these concepts, if any, on policy-mak...

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.

PPH 2nd edn #23.vp

The current gold standard for treating postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) due to atony is intravenous (IV) oxytocin1. However, access to this specific drug and the capacity for its timely intravenous administration are lacking in settings with limited resources, especially at lower levels of the health care system. Misoprostol, a tablet that requires no additional supplies and/or specialized skills to...

Book Review: “Bagchi D., Swaroop A. (2017). Food Toxicology. CRC Press, Boca Raton. ISBN: 978-1-4987-0874-6”

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