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David S Jones, Rationalizing epidemics: meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 294, illus., £32.95 (hardback 0-674-01305-0).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 123-124
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Susanne M Klausen, Race, maternity, and the politics of birth control in South Africa, 1910–39, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xix, 221, £45.00 (hardback 1-4039-3452-5).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 404-405
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Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic nation: faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2005, pp. xiv, 347 illus., £38.95, US$60.00 (hardback 0-520-24443-5); £15.95, US$24.95 (paperback 0-520-24444-3).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 544-545
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George Weisz, Divide and conquer: a comparative history of medical specialization, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. xxx, 359, £29.99 (hardback 0-19-17969-2).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 545-547
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Ilana Löwy, Virus, moustiques et modernité: la fièvre jaune au Brésil entre science et politique, Histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine, Paris, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2001, pp. 363, illus., €25.92 (paperback 2-914610-00-9).
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Diana E Manuel (ed.), Walking the Paris hospitals: diary of an Edinburgh medical student, 1834–1835, Medical History, Supplement No. 23, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004, pp. xii, 211, illus., £32.00, US$50.00 (hardback 0-85484-074-5).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 262-263
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Nadja Durbach, Bodily matters: the anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853–1907, Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 276, illus, £14.95 (paperback 0-8223-3423-2).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 405-407
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Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Biomedical platforms: realigning the normal and the pathological in late-twentieth-century medicine, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 544, illus., £35.95 (hardback 0-262-11276-0).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 125-127
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Mart J van Lieburg (ed.), Isidore Snapper's notes for memoirs 1889–1973: the autobiographical recollections of ‘the champion of bedside medicine’, Rotterdam, Erasmus, 2004, pp. 239, illus., €35.00 (paperback 90-5235-172-4).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 263-264
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Jeanne Daly, Evidence-based medicine and the search for a science of clinical care, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2005, pp. xv, 275, £41.95, $65.00 (hardback 0-520-24316-1).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 547-548
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Raj Bhopal and John Last (eds), Public health: past, present and future: celebrating academic public health in Edinburgh, 1902–2002, London, The Nuffield Trust, 2004, pp. xxi, 213, £25 (paperback 0-11-703264-6).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 407-408
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Jonathan M Metzl and Suzanne Poirier (eds), Difference and identity, a special issue of Literature and Medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 207, £13.50 (paperback 0-8018-8205-2).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 548-549
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Sonu Shamdasani, Jung and the making of modern psychology: the dream of a science, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xvi, 387, £50.00, US$75.00 (hardback 0-521-83145-8); £18.95, US$28.00 (paperback 0-521-53909-9).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 264-265
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Lynn McDonald (ed.), Florence Nightingale on public health care, vol. 6, Collected works of Florence Nightingale, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 701, US$95.00 (hardback 0-88920-446-2).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 408-409
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Aya Takahashi, The development of the Japanese nursing profession: adopting and adapting western influences, Routledge Curzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia, 15, London and New York, Routledge Curzon, 2004, pp. xiii, 209, £60 (hardback ISBN 0-415-30579-9).
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Helen King (ed.), Health in Antiquity, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp. xxii, 292, US$87.50 (hardback 0-415-22065-3).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 409-410
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Pratik Chakrabarti, Western science in modern India: metropolitan methods, colonial practices, The ‘Opus 1’ series, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004, pp. xi, 328, Rs 695 (hardback, 81-7824-078-5).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 265-266
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Maria H Frawley, Invalidism and identity in nineteenth-century Britain, University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. viii, 292, illus., £27.00, US$39.00 (hardback 0-226-26120-4).
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Randall M Packard, Peter J Brown, Ruth L Berkelman and Howard Frumkin (eds), Emerging illnesses and society: negotiating the public health agenda, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 420, £35.50 (hardback 0-8018-7942-6).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 549-550
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Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Bernd Roeck (eds), Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century southern Europe, History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. viii, 326, £49.50 (hardback 0-7546-5156-8).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 550-551
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