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Howard I Kushner, A cursing brain? The histories of Tourette syndrome, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 303, illus., £18.50 (0-674-180224).
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Leonard D Smith, ‘Cure, comfort and safe custody’: public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 310, illus., £55.00 (0-7185-0094-6).
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Index
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W F Bynum and Caroline Overy (eds), The beast in the mosquito: the correspondence of Ronald Ross and Patrick Manson, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 51, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1998, pp. xxxv, 528, illus., £78.50, $132.00 (hardback 90-420-0731 -1), £24.50, $41.50 (paperback 90-420-0721-4).
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Deborah Kuhn McGregor, From midwives to medicine: the birth of American gynecology, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1998, pp. xii, 273, illus., $55.00 (hardback 0-8135-2571), $23.00 (paperback 0-8135-2572).
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Mary Thomas (ed.), Post-war mothers: child birth letters to Grantly Dick-Read 1946–1956, University of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. xiv, 248, illus., £35.00, $59.95 (1-878822-87-X).
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Gertrude Jacinta Fraser, African American midwifery in the South: dialogues of birth, race, and memory, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. x, 278, £24.95, $39.95 (0-674-00852-9).
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MDH volume 44 supplement 20 Front matter
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Donald Caton, What a blessing she had chloroform: the medical and social response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present, London, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 288, £20.00 (0-300-07597-9).
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John Sutton, Philosophy and memory traces: Descartes to connectionism, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. xvii, 372, illus., £40.00, $69.95 (0-521-59194-5).
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Frank Dikötter, Imperfect conceptions: medical knowledge, birth defects, and eugenics in China, London, C Hurst, 1998, pp. x, 226, illus., £25.00 (1-85065-331-3).
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Charlotte Furth, A flourishing yin: gender in China's medical history, 960–1665, A Philip E Lilienthal Book, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 355, illus., £35.00, $45.00 (hardback 0-520-20828-5), £12.95, $17.95 (0-520-20829-3).
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Georg Berger, Die Beratenden Psychiater des deutschen Heeres 1939 bis 1945, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 1998, pp. 328, £33.00 (3-631-33296-3).
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Faye Getz, Medicine in the English middle ages, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. xiv, 174, £21.95, $32.50 (0-691-08522-6).
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Daniel J Kevles, The Baltimore case: a trial ofpolitics, science, and character, New York and London, WW Norton, 1998, pp. 509, illus., £21.00 (hardback 0-393-04103-4).
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Robert Barer, One young man and total war (from Normandy to concentration camp, a doctor's letters home), Edinburgh and Durham, Pentland Press, 1998, pp. xviii, 298, illus., £18.00 (1-85821-569-2).
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Alan Derickson, Black lung: anatomy of a public health disaster, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1998, pp. xv, 237, illus., £22.50, $22.95 (hardback 0-8014-3186-7).
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Nina Rattner Gelbart, The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1998, pp. xi, 347, illus., $35.00 (0-520-21036-0).
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Annet Mooij, Out of otherness: characters and narrators in the Dutch venereal disease debates 1850–1990, trans. by Beverley Jackson, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica, 47, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1998, pp. vi, 295, Hfl. 150.00, $78.50 (hardback 90-420-0267-0), Hfl. 45.00, $23.50 (paperback 90-420-0257-3).
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Allen M Hornblum, Acres of skin: human experiments at Holmesburg Prison. A true story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science, New York and London, Routledge, 1998, pp. xxii, 297, illus., £18.99 (0-415-91990-8)
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