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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 49 - 01 April 2005

Book Reviews

Signhild Vallgårda, Folkesundhed som politik. Danmark og Sverige fra 1930 til i dag, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2003, pp. 299, kr 298.00 (paperback 87-7934-065-2).

Milo Keynes, A W F Edwards and Robert Peel (eds), A century of Mendelism in human genetics: proceedings of a symposium organised by the Galton Institute and held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 2001, Boca Raton and London, CRC Press, 2004, pp. ix, 161, US$84.95 (hardback 0-415-32960-4).

Lisa A Long, Rehabilitating bodies: health, history, and the American civil war, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, pp. 322, £35.00, US$49.95 (hardback 0-8122-3748-X).

Michael Sappol, A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America, Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 430, illus., US$35.00 (hardback 0-691-05925-X).

David Clark, Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement: selected letters 1959–1999, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 397, illus., £39.95 (hardback 0-19-851607-X).

A Grieco, D Fano, T Carter and S Iavicoli (eds), Origins of occupational health associations in the world, Amsterdam and Boston, Elsevier, 2003, pp. x, 291, illus., €100.00, US$100.00 (hardback 0-444-51301-9).

Thomas H Weller, Growing pathogens in tissue cultures: fifty years in academic tropical medicine, pediatrics, and virology, Science History Publications for Boston Medical Library, 2004, pp. xi, 291 (hardback 0-88135-380-9).

Willem de Blécourt and Cornelie Usborne (eds), Cultural approaches to the history of medicine: mediating medicine in early modern and modern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xxiii, 241, £50.00 (hardback 1-4039-1569-5).

Angelique Richardson, Love and eugenics in the late nineteenth century: rational reproduction and the new woman, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. xvii, 250, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-19-818700-9).

Lara V Marks, Sexual chemistry: a history of the contraceptive pill, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. xi, 372, illus., £20.00 (hardback 0-3-08943-0).

Claude E Dolman and Richard J Wolfe, Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist, London, Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 691, illus., £29.95 (hardback 0-674-01220-8).

Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine (eds), Books and the sciences in history, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiv, 438, illus., £52.00, US$85.00 (hardback 0-521-65063-1), £18.95, US$29.95 (paperback 0-521-65939-6).

Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama (eds), Mires, physiciens, barbiers et charlatans. Les marges de la médecine de l'Antiquité au XVIe siècle, Langres, Dominique Guéniot, 2004, pp. 178, €22.90 (paperback 2-87825-277-2).

Arthur A Daemmrich, Pharmacopolitics: drug regulation in the United States and Germany, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 203, £25.50 (hardback 0-8078–2844-0).

Ralf Vollmuth, Traumatologie und Feldchirurgie an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit: examplarisch dargestellt anhand der “Grossen Chirurgie” des Walther Herrmann Ryff, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 45, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2001, pp. 352, illus., ₠44.00 (hardback 3-515-07742-1).

Liborio Dibattista, Jean Martin Charcot e la lingua della neurologia, with CD ROM, Collana di storia della scienza, Bari, Cacucci, pp. 320, €28.00 (paperback 88-8422-256-7).

Volker Scheid, Chinese medicine in contemporary China: plurality and synthesis, Science and Cultural Theory series, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2002, xx, 407, £18.50 (paperback 0-8223-2872-0).

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