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Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The fertility doctor: John Rock and the reproductive revolution, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. 374, £16.00, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-8018-9001-7).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 263-264
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Helen M Sweet with Rona Dougall, Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain, New York and London, Routledge, 2008, pp. xvi, 266, illus., £60.00, $95.00 (hardback 978-0-415-95634-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 120-121
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Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore (eds), Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine, Oxford, Blackwell in collaboration with the Society for Renaissance Studies, 2008, pp. 123, illus., £19.99 (paperback 978-1-4051-8040-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 403-404
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Jacqueline H Wolf, Deliver me from pain: anesthesia and birth in America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2009, pp. xiii, 277, £26.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9110-6).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 542-543
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Christopher Hamlin, Cholera: the biography, Biographies of Disease Series, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 223, £12.99, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-19-954624-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 544-545
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Morrice McCrae, Physicians and society: a history of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, John Donald, 2007, pp. 282, illus., £25.00 (hardback 978-0-85976-698-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 121-122
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Ann Shaw and Carole Reeves (eds), The children of Craig-y-nos: life in a Welsh tuberculosis sanatorium, 1922–1959, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009, pp. v, 149, 184 illus., £9.99 (paperback 978-0-85484-126-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 264-265
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Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book VI: The heart and associated organs. Book VII: The brain, a translation of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman, Novato, CA, Norman Publishing, 2009, pp. xx, 413, illus, $275 (hardback 978-0-930405-90-8).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 404-405
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Gretchen Krueger, Hope and suffering: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. x, 216, £23.50, $35.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8831-1).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 265-266
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Michael Holland, Geoffrey Gill, Sean Burrell (eds), Cholera and conflict: 19th century cholera in Britain and its social consequences, Leeds, Medical Museum Publishing, 2009, pp. viii, 377, £10.00 (hardback 978-1-897849-09-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 545-546
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Peregrine Horden, Hospitals and healing from antiquity to the later Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp. xii, 338, £65.00, online £58.50 (hardback 978-0-7546-6181-8).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 405-406
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David Cantor (ed.), Cancer in the twentieth century, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. vi, 350, £16.50, $25.00 (paperback 978-0-8018-8867-0).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 122-123
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Andrew Scull, Hysteria: the biography, Biographies of Disease Series, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 223, £12.99, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-19-956096-7).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 546-547
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Danielle Westerhof, Death and the noble body in medieval England, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2008, pp. xii, 190, £50.00 (hardback 978-1-84383-416-8).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 406-407
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Caroline Hannaway (ed.), Biomedicine in the twentieth century: practices, policies, and politics, Biomedical and Health Research, vol. 72, Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2008, pp. x, 377, €130.00 (hardback 978-1-58603-832-8).
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Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M H Mazumdar (eds), Crafting immunity: working histories of clinical immunology, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp. x, 308, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5759-0).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 266-268
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Mariola Espinosa, Epidemic invasions: yellow fever and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878–1930, University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. x, 189, $22.50, £15.50 (paperback 978-0-226-21812-0)
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 547-548
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Tony Waldron, Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past, Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, 2007, pp. 148, £27.99 (hardback 978-1-59874-252-7).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 407-408
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Majia Holmer Nadesan, Governmentality, biopower, and everyday life, Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, No. 57, New York and London, Routledge, 2008, pp. ix, 248, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-415-95854-7).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 124-126
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L A Reynolds and E M Tansey (eds), Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: influences and institutions, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 33, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008, pp. xxiv, 139 (paperback 978-085484-117-2). - L A Reynolds and E M Tansey (eds), Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: industry and regulation, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 34, London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008, pp. xxvi, 120 (paperback 978-085484-118-9). Books in this series are freely available online following the links to Publications from www.ucl.ac/histmed; hard copies, £6.00, $10.00 from www.bertrams.com; www.gardners.com; www.amazon.co.uk; www.amazon.com
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 268-269
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