Volume 49, 2005
Volume 50, 2006
Volume 51, 2007
Volume 52, 2008
Volume 53, 2009
Volume 54, 2010, and forthcoming titles.

Articles
’"Indecent and Demoralising Representations": Public Anatomy Museums in mid-Victorian England’
A W Bates

When the 1832 Anatomy Act ended public dissection in England, popular interest in anatomy turned towards models and museums. In the 1850s and 1860s, at least eight public anatomy museums operated in England. They were initially tolerated, or even recommended, by medical men, but in the mid-1850s, those at which treatments for venereal disease were sold became targets for anti-quackery campaigns, in the course of which medical critics made much of their "obscene" content. Labelling anatomy as obscene can be seen as a move towards a medical monopoly of knowledge from which laypeople could be excluded on moral grounds. At the same time, anatomy assumed increasing prominence in medical training, but despite high-sounding claims that it was the "foundation of medical science", little more than rote learning was required. In gaining exclusive rights to anatomy, the medical profession raised doubts that it was a dangerous science, able to "excite disgust in one class of minds, or the lowest passions in another".

Articles
’A Doctor in the House: The Architecture of Home-offices for Physicians in Toronto, 1885-1930’,
Annmarie Adams and Stacie Burke

This interdisciplinary paper explores the structure, function, location and number of home-clinics in Toronto, Ontario, using data gathered from city directories, nominal census returns, and especially architectural drawings and photographs. The approach is cross sectional, with a direct and comprehensive examination of physicians practicing in Toronto in 1901. The paper challenges the common perception that urban physicians practised medicine in more sharply defined and formalized spaces than their rural counterparts. We also argue that the location of the house-offices foreshadowed, inspired, or even drove the development of Canada’s most coherent hospital district. And we show that the end of the house-office era in large urban centres is unambiguous, marked in architectural terms by the introduction of a second, under-studied building type: the non-residential medical office, such as the extant Medical Arts Building of 1928-30 in Toronto. Finally, the paper underlines the importance of studying place as a historical source in the history of medicine.

’Angina Pectoris and the Arnolds: Emotions and Heart Disease in the Nineteenth-Century’
Fay Bound Alberti

Using the body of the educational reformer Thomas Arnold as a case study, this article considers the links between the heart and emotion in medical interpretations of cardiac dysfunction. Locating Victorian attitudes in a much lengthier tradition of associating emotions with heart health, it shows how theories of disease causation drew from, and contributed to, broader theories of the relationship between mind and body and the role of the nervous system. In this context, as in medical practice, the heart was not isolated as a complex muscle or organ, as suggested by studies of scientific theory and the "new cardiology", but viewed as an integral component of the body-as-system. In the nineteenth century, as in preceding centuries, heart health required careful management through a regimen that involved such priorities as diet, sleep, exercise and the monitoring of the non-naturals. This has implications for our historical understandings of "functional" and "structural" disorders, as well as for the history of angina pectoris as a disease and symptom complex.

Book Reviews