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Martin Edwards, Control and the therapeutic trial: rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918–1948, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 82, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2006, pp. 221, €46.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2273-7).
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Julie Parle, States of mind: searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868–1918, Scottsville, University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal Press, 2007, pp. xv, 334, illus., R190.00 (paperback 978-1-86914-098-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 282-283
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Erika Dyck, Psychedelic psychiatry: LSD from clinic to campus, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 199, £19.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8994-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 561-562
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Lydia Syson, Doctor of love: James Graham and his celestial bed, Richmond, Surrey, Alma Books, 2008, pp. 331, illus., £20.00 (hardback 978-1-84688-054-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 138-139
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Daniel R Wilson and Gerald A CoryJr, The evolutionary epidemiology of mania and depression: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of mood disorders, Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, pp. v, 396, $129.95 (hardback 978-0-7734-5209-1).
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Graham Mooney, Jonathan Reinarz (eds), Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital visiting, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 86, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2009, pp. vi, 352, €70.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2599-8).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 562-564
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Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones and Helen Sweet (eds), From western medicine to global medicine: the hospital beyond the west, Hyderabad, Orient BlackSwan, 2009, pp. x, 489, Rs 795.00 (hardback 978-81-250-3702-6).
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Gayle Davis, ‘The cruel madness of love’: sex, syphilis and psychiatry in Scotland, 1880–1930, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 85, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2008, pp. 285, illus., €58.00, $78.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2463-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 139-140
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David Boyd Haycock, Mortal coil: a short history of living longer, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 308, illus., £18.99, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-300-11778-3).
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Lara Freidenfelds, The modern period: menstruation in twentieth-century America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, pp. 242, £31.00, $60.00 (hardback 978-0-80189245-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 564-565
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Ayesha Nathoo, Hearts exposed: transplants and the media in 1960s Britain, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Series, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. xv, 262, illus., £52.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-8730-3).
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John Parascandola, Sex, sin, and science: a history of syphilis in America, Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History series, Westport, CT, and London, Praeger, 2008, pp. xx, 195, illus., £27.95, $49.95 (hardback 978-0-275-99430-3).
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Christopher E Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne (eds), Cultures of the abdomen: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. vi, 264, £40.00 (hardback 1-4039-6521-8).
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Derek J Oddy, Peter J Atkins, Virginia Amilien (eds), The rise of obesity in Europe: a twentieth century food history, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, pp. xv, 246, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-7696-6).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 566-567
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John Kirkup, The evolution of surgical instruments: an illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century, Novato, CA, Norman Publishing, 2006, pp. xviii, 510, 30 colour illus., 527 black and white illus., $275.00 (hardback 0-930405-86-2). - John Kirkup, A history of limb amputation, Heidelberg, Springer, 2007, pp vii,184, illus., £100.00, €149.95, $169.00 (hardback 978-1-84628-443-4).
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Atsuko Naono, State of vaccination: the fight against smallpox in colonial Burma, New Perspectives in South Asian History Series, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan, 2009, pp. xiii, 235, Rs 695.00 (hardback 978-81-250-3546-6).
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James L A WebbJr, Humanity’s burden: a global history of malaria, Studies in Environment and History, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. xii, 236, £14.99 (paperback 978-9-521-67012-8)
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Eluned Summers-Bremner, Insomnia: a cultural history, London, Reaktion Books, 2008, pp. 176, £19.95 (hardback 978-1-86189-317-8).
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Margaret A Boden, Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science, 2 vols, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2008, pp. xlviii, total pp. 1631, £50.00 (paperback 978-0-19-954564-3).
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Alun Roberts, The Welsh National School of Medicine 1893–1931: the Cardiff years, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2008, pp. xxiv, 389, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7083-2174-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 567-568
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