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Medical History

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Volume 51 - 01 October 2007

Book Reviews

Manuela Tecusan, The fragments of the Methodists: Methodism outside Soranus. Volume one: Text and translation, Leiden, Brill, 2004, pp. ix, 813, €149.00, $197.00 (hardback 90-04-12451-9).

Jarrett Rudy, The freedom to smoke: tobacco consumption and identity, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 234, £57.00, $75.00 (hardback 978-0-7735-2910-6); £17.95, $27.95 (paperback 978-0-7735-2911-3).

Henry Guly, A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948–2004, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. xviii, 183, £45.00 (hardback 1-4039-4715-5).

Carmen Barona Vilar, Las políticas de salud: la sanidad valenciana entre 1855 y 1936, Universitat de València, 2006, pp. 292, illus., €16.65 (paperback 84-370-6331-0).

Florian Steger, Asklepiosmedizin: medizinischer Alltag in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Medizin Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beihefte 22, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2004, pp. 256, €38.00 (paperback 3-515-08415-0).

Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler (eds), The risks of medical innovation: risk perception and assessment in historical context, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. xv, 291, illus., £80.00 (hardback 0-415-33481-0).

Thomas Dormandy, The worst of evils: the fight against pain, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xi, 547, illus., £19.99 (hardback 0-300-11322-6).

Iris Borowy and Wolf D Gruner (eds), Facing illness in troubled times: health in Europe in the interwar years, 1918–1939, Frankfurt am Main and New York, Peter Lang, 2005, pp. xiv, 424, £41.90 (paperback 3-631-51948-6).

Selma Tibi, The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5, Leiden and London, Brill, 2006, pp. xiv, 314, €93.00, $133.00 (hardback 90-04-0414696-2).

Anne Carol, Les médecins et la mort: XIXe–XXesiècle, Collection Historique, Paris, Aubier, 2004, pp. 335, €23.00 (paperback 2-70-072331-7).

Daniel Callahan and Angela A Wasunna, Medicine and the market: equity v. choice, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. x, 320, £23.50, $35.00 (hardback 0-8018-8339-3).

José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Agustí Nieto-Galan (eds), Chemistry, medicine, and crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1853) and his times, Sagamore Beach, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2006, pp. xxv, 306, illus., $52.00 (hardback 0-88135-275-6).

Andrew T Crislip, From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in late Antiquity, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2005, pp. x, 235, £33.50, $70.00 (hardback 0-472-11474-3).

Virginia Berridge and Kelly Loughlin (eds), Medicine, the market and the mass media: producing health in the twentieth century, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp. xx, 299, £80.00 (hardback 0-415-30432-6).

Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the curious: looking back at early English museums, Perspectives on Collecting series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. xii, 297, £47.50, $94.95 (hardback 0-7546-0506-X).

Albrecht Burkardt, Les clients des saints: maladie et quête du miracle à travers les procès de canonisation de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle en France, Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, 2004, pp. viii, 623, €66.00 (paperback 2-7283-0681-8).

Fay Bound Alberti, Medicine, emotion and disease, 1700–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xxviii, 196, £45.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-8537-8).

Kay Peter Jankrift, Krankheit und Heilkunde im Mittelalter, Geschichte Kompakt, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003, pp. ix, 148, SFr 25.90, €14.90 (paperback 3-534-15481-9).

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