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Volume 54 - Issue 2 - April 2010

Book Reviews

Elaine Hobby (ed.), The birth of mankind: otherwise named, The woman’s book, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, pp. xxxix, 310, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3818-6).

G M P Loots, Epilepsie in de zestiende eeuw. De Observationes van Pieter van Foreest, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2007, pp. 219, €27.50 (paperback 978-90-5235-189-6).

Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds), Sir Thomas Browne: the world proposed, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 368, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-19-923621-3).

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl A E Enenkel (eds), The sense of suffering: constructions of physical pain in early modern culture, Intersections, Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009, pp. xxiii, 501, €99.00, $148.00 (hardback 978-90-04-17247-0).

Angela Ki Che Leung, Leprosy in China: a history, New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, pp. xi, 373, £35.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-231-12300-6).

Julie Parle, States of mind: searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868–1918, Scottsville, University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal Press, 2007, pp. xv, 334, illus., R190.00 (paperback 978-1-86914-098-4).

Daniel R Wilson and Gerald A CoryJr, The evolutionary epidemiology of mania and depression: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of mood disorders, Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, pp. v, 396, $129.95 (hardback 978-0-7734-5209-1).

David Boyd Haycock, Mortal coil: a short history of living longer, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 308, illus., £18.99, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-300-11778-3).

Christopher E Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne (eds), Cultures of the abdomen: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. vi, 264, £40.00 (hardback 1-4039-6521-8).

Eluned Summers-Bremner, Insomnia: a cultural history, London, Reaktion Books, 2008, pp. 176, £19.95 (hardback 978-1-86189-317-8).

Andrew Knox and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital 1741–2006, Exeter, Andrew Knox and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, 2008, pp. xiii, 222, £16.99 (hardback 978-0-9561700-1-9), £8.99 (paperback 978-0-956170-0-2).

Thomas F Baskett, On the shoulders of giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, 2nd ed., London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2008, pp. xxii, 440, illus., £75.00 (£67.50 to Fellows, Members and Trainees of the RCOG), (hardback 978-1-904752-64-6).

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