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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 51 - 01 October 2007

Book Reviews

Bernadette McCauley, Who shall take care of our sick? Roman Catholic sisters and the development of Catholic hospitals in New York City, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 2005, pp. xiii, 146, $45.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8216-6).

Sarah W Tracy, Alcoholism in America: from reconstruction to prohibition, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 357, £32.00, $48.00 (hardback 0-8018-8119-6).

Michael Bliss, Harvey Cushing: a life in surgery, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 591, illus., $40.00 (hardback 0-19-516989-1).

Elliot S Valenstein, The war of the soups and the sparks: the discovery of neurotransmitters and the dispute over how nerves communicate, New York, Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. xviii, 237, illus., £19.50, $31.00 (hardback 0-231-13588-2).

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag (eds), Children's health issues in historical perspective, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005, pp. xi, 554, £21.50 (paperback 0-88920-474-8).

Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills (eds), Representing emotions: new connections in the histories of art, music and medicine, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 254, illus., £47.50 (hardback 0-7546-3058-7).

David M Oshinsky, Polio: an American story, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. viii, 342, illus., £18.99, $30.00 (hardback 0-19-515294-8).

Christoph Tschupp, Johanniskraut: Hypericum perforatum L. vom Hexenkraut zum modernen Arzneimittel, Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie, vol 26, Liebefeld, SGGP/SSHP, 2004, pp. viii, 552, illus., €35.00, Sw Fr 49.00 (paperback 3-9522758-4-0).

John Russell Silver, History of the treatment of spinal injuries, New York and Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003, pp. xvii, 297, illus., £76.00, €110.00, $121.00 (hardback 0-306-48032-8).

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Sally Sheard and Sir Liam Donaldson, The nation's doctor: the role of the Chief Medical Officer 1855–1998, Oxford, Radcliffe, 2006, pp. xxii, 238, illus., £40.00 (paperback 1-84619-001-0).

Briony Hudson (ed.), English delftware drug jars: the collection of the museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London and Chicago, Pharmaceutical Press, 2006, pp. 271, 220 colour plates, £95.00 (hardback 0-85369-643-8).

John Henderson, A life of Ernest Starling, People and Ideas series, Oxford, published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xvi, 227, £35.99, $59.50 (hardback 0-19-517780-0).

G Barry Carruthers and Lesley A Carruthers, A history of Britain's hospitals and the background to the medical, nursing and allied professions, Lewes, Book Guild Publishing, 2005, pp. x, 430, illus., £18.50 (hardback 978-1-857769-05-0).

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