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Volume 55 - October 2011

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Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks (eds), Tobacco in Russian History and Culture from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Routledge Studies in Cultural History, No. 10 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), pp. X + 295, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-99655-6.

Judith Miller, An Appraisal of the Skulls and Dentition of Ancient Egyptians, Highlighting the Pathology and Speculating on the Influence of Diet and Environment, BAR International Series 1794 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008), pp. 143, £29.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4073-0282-9.

James S. Olson, Making Cancer History: Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), pp. xiv + 369, £19.00/$35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8018-9056-7.

James McKenna, Farhat Manzoor and Greta Jones, Candles in the Dark: Medical Ethical Issues in Northern Ireland during the Troubles (London: Nuffield Trust, 2009), pp. v + 149, no price given, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-905030-32-3.

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L.A.H. Hogenhuis, Cognition and Recognition: On the Origin of Movement: Rademacher (1887–1957), A Biography, History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 6 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. xviii + 353, €99.00, $148.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-16836-7.

Joshua R. Eyler (ed.), Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. xii + 235, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6822-0.

Peter Williams, The Story of the Wellcome Trust: Unlocking Sir Henry’s Legacy to Medical Research (Hindringham: J.J.G. Publishing, 2010), pp. xvi + 118, £16.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-899163-92-2.

Katherine D. Watson, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp. vi + 214, £18.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-415-44772-0.

Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy (eds), Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 224, £27.30, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-631-58044-8.

Ian Marsh, Suicide: Foucault, History and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xii + 251, £19.99/$34.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-531-13001-1.

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. xiii + 248, £18.99/$30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-300-12733-1.

Georgina Ferry, Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2007), pp. xii + 352, $39.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-087969785-3.

Roger Smith, Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. viii + 288, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-7498-1.

Mike Jay, The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. vii + 296, $30.00/£20.00, ISBN: 978-0-300-12439-2.

Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly (eds), Lawyers’ Medicine: The Legislature, the Courts and medical Practice, 1760–2000 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009), pp. xiv + 224, £30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84113-849-7.

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John Chalmers (ed.), Andrew Duncan Senior: Physician of the Enlightenment (Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2010), pp. xvi + 253, £14.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-905267-30-9.

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