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Volume 53 - Issue 4 - October 2009

Book Reviews

Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Robert Jütte, Medizingeschichte. Eine Einführung, Cologne, Böhlau Verlag, 2007, pp. 378, €19.90 (paperback 978-3-8252-2903-0).

Jan A Witkowski and John R Inglis (eds), Davenport’s dream: 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 298, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-87969-756-3).

Cynthia A Connolly, Saving sickly children: the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909–1970, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 182, illus., £27.50, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-8135-4267-6).

Alice Boardman Smuts with the assistance of Robert W Smuts, R Malcolm Smuts, Barbara B Smuts, and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Science in the service of children, 1893–1935, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xiv, 381, £20.00, $32.00 (paperback 978-0-300-14435-2).

Susan P Mattern, Galen and the rhetoric of healing, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. x, 279, £36.50, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8835-9).

Deborah Madden, ‘A cheap, safe and natural medicine’: religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley’s Primitive physic, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 83, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 313, €65.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2274-4).

A M G Rutten, Blue ships: Dutch ocean crossing with multifunctional drugs and spices in the eighteenth century, translated by Dr J Wormer, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2008, pp. 154, €32.50 (hardback 978-90-5235-199-5).

G A Lindeboom, Herman Boerhaave: the man and his work, second edition, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2007, pp. xxx, 372, illus., €49.50 (hardback 978-90-5235-137-7).

Sandra M Sufian, Healing the land and the nation: malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920–1947, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. xx, 385, $40.00, £21.00 (hardback 978-0-226-77935-5).

Yaron Perry and Efraim Lev, Modern medicine in the Holy Land: pioneering British medical services in late Ottoman Palestine, International Library of Colonial History, No. 8, London and New York, Tauris Academic Studies, 2007, pp. xi, 243, illus., £52.50 (hardback 978-1-84511-489-3).

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