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Volume 49 - 01 April 2005

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Amy L Fairchild, Science at the borders: immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. xiii, 385, £35.50 (hardback 0-8018-7080-1).

Peter Razzell, The conquest of smallpox: the impact of inoculation on smallpox mortality in eighteenth century Britain, London, Caliban Books, 2003, rev. 2nd ed., pp. xxvii, 253, £40.00 (hardback 1-85066-045-X).

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Appendix 2: Notes on Classifications and Drawings of Nephritic Kidneys in the Nineteenth Century

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Katherine Watson, Poisoned lives: English poisoners and their victims, London and New York, Hambledon and London, 2004, pp. xiv, 268, illus., £19.99 (hardback 1-85283-379-4).

Hera Cook, The long sexual revolution: English women, sex, and contraception 1800–1975, Oxford University Press, 2004, £35.00, pp. xiii, 412 (hardback 0-19-925239-4).

Urban Örneholm (ed. and transl.), Four eighteenth-century medical dissertations under the presidency of Nils Rosén, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Universitet, 2003, pp. 284 (ISSN 0526-2859, ISBN 91-554-5789-4).

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Mary P Sutphen and Bridie Andrews (eds), Medicine and colonial identity, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, vol. 17London and New York, Routledge, 2003, pp. xi, 147, £55.00 (hardback 0-415-28880-0).

E A Heaman, St Mary's: the history of a London teaching hospital, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, and Liverpool University Press, 2003, pp. xxi, 519, illus., £30.00 (hardback 0-85323-968-1), £15.00 (paperback 0-85323-978-9).

Lydia Marinelli and Andreas Mayer, Dreaming by the book: Freud's The interpretation of dreams and the history of the psychoanalytic movement, transl. Susan Fairfield, New York, Other Press, 2003, pp. 264, US$28.00 (hardback 1-59051-009-7).

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MDH volume 49 supplement 24 Front matter

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Conevery Bolton Valenčius, The health of the country: how American settlers understood themselves and their land, New York, Basic Books, 2002, pp. viii, 388, illus., $30.00 (hardback 0-465-08986-0).

Kim Sloan (ed.), Enlightenment: discovering the world in the eighteenth century, London, British Museum Press, 2003, pp. 304, colour plates 245, black and white illus. 25, £29.95 (hardback 0-7141-2765-5).

John A Kastor, Governance of teaching hospitals: turmoil at Penn and Hopkins, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. x, 356, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-9018-7420-3).

Penelope Hunting, The Medical Society of London 1773–2003, London, Medical Society of London, 2003, pp. xvi, 344, illus., £55.00 (+postage) (hardback 0905082-35-00). Orders to: Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Street, London W1G 9EG, UK.

Mike Jay, The air loom gang: the strange and true story of James Tilly Matthews and his visionary madness, London and New York, Bantam Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306, illus, £12.99 (hardback 0-593-04997-7); £7.99 (paperback 0-553-81485-0).

Alessandro Arcangeli, Recreation in the Renaissance: attitudes towards leisure and pastimes in European culture, c. 1425–1675, Early Modern History: Society and Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. xi, 188, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-333-98453-6).

Carolyn Malone, Women's bodies and dangerous trades in England, 1880–1914, Studies in History, Woodbridge, The Royal Historical Society and The Boydell Press, 2003, pp. xi, 169, £45.00, US$75.00 (hardback 0-86193-264-1).

Konstantinos Kapparis, Abortion in the ancient world, London, Duckworth, 2002, pp. viii, 264, £40.00 (hardback 0-7156-3080-6).

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