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Volume 49 - 01 April 2005

Book Reviews

John M S Pearce, Fragments of neurological history, London, Imperial College Press, 2003, pp. xvii, 633, illus., £46.00 (hardback 1-86094-338-1).

Susan Wheeler, Five hundred years of medicine in art: an illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry Collection in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, Ashgate Publishing, 2001, pp. xxviii, 363, £85.00, US$144.95 (hardback 0-8596-7992-6).

Julie Laskaris, The art is long: On the sacred disease and the scientific tradition, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 25Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2002, pp. ix, 172, €69.00, US$81.00 (hardback 90-04-12152-8).

Nicholas L Tilney, Transplant: from myth to reality, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 320, illus., £19.95 (hardback 0-300-09963-0).

Jeanette C Fincke, Augenleiden nach keilschriftlichen Quellen. Untersuchungen zur altorientalischen Medizin, Würzburger medizinhistorische Forschungen 70, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2000, pp. xxxvii, 342, €44.00 (paperback).

David Pingree, Catalogue of Jyoti⋅a manuscripts in the Wellcome Library: Sanskrit astral and mathematical literature, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, vol. 2Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2004, pp. xix, 472, €89.00, US$106.00 (hardback 90-04-13152-3).

Robert Richardson, The story of surgery: an historical commentary, revised edition, Shrewsbury, Quiller Press, 2004, pp. vii, 304, illus., £25.00 (hardback 1-904057-46-2).

Laura Garwin and Tim Lincoln (eds), A century of nature: twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. xviii, 360, £17.50, US $25.00 (paperback 0-226-28415-8).

John Walker-Smith, Enduring memories: a paediatric gastroenterologist remembers. A tale of London and Sydney, Spennymoor, The Memoir Club, 2003, pp. xv, 304, £17.50 (hardback 1-84104-052-5).

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Rahul Peter Das, The origin of the life of a human being: conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature, Indian Medical Tradition, vol. 6Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2003, pp. xvi, 728, Rs. 1250 (hardback 81-208-1998-5).

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Peter O Williams, The exotic fruits of my life, Bletchingdon, Rana, 2003, pp. ix, 158, illus., £20.00 (hardback 0-9538092-1-8). Orders to: Rana, Courtyard House, Church End, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire OX5 3DL.

Eduard Seidler and Karl-Heinz Leven, Geschichte der Medizin und der Krankenpflege, seventh revised and extended edition, Stuttgart, W Kohlhammer, 2003, pp. 333, €18.90, (paperback 3-17-017624-2).

Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson and Alison Turton (eds), The pharmaceutical industry: a guide to historical records, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, pp. vii, 561, £55.00 (hardback 0-7546-3352-7)

Iain Bamforth (ed.), The body in the library: a literary anthology of modern medicine, London and New York, Verso, 2003, pp. xxx, 418, £20.00 (hardback 1-859874-534-7).

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