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Rafael Huertas, El siglo de la clínica: para una teoría de práctica psiquiátrica, Historia y crítica de la psiquiatría series, Madrid, Frenia, 2005, pp. 297, €15.00 (paperback 84-609-4361-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 138-139
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John E Lesch, The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 364, £35.99, $59.50 (hardback 978-0-1951-8775-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 416-417
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Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (eds), Perspectives on risk and regulation: the FDA at 100, Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2007, pp. xvii, 163, $12.00 (paperback 978-0-941901-41-0).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 549-550
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Alison Bashford (ed.), Medicine at the border: disease, globalization and security, 1950 to the present, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 271, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-50706-7).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 286-287
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Louise Hill Curth (ed.), From physick to pharmacology: five hundred years of British drug retailing, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii, 174, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3597-0).
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- 17 May 2012, p. 417
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Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis, Mutualism and health care: British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 243, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-6578-1).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 139-141
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Sharon L Snyder and David T Mitchell, Cultural locations of disability, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp. xiv, 245, illus., £12.00, $19.00 (paperback 0-226-76732-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 141-142
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Carsten Timmermann, Julie Anderson (eds), Devices and designs: medical technologies in historical perspective, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 284, £55.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-8644-3).
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- 17 May 2012, p. 418
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Anne Digby, Diversity and division in medicine: health care in South Africa from the 1800s, Studies in the History of Medicine, vol. 5, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 504, illus., £49.50 (paperback 978-0-8204-7978-0).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 550-551
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James Colgrove, State of immunity: the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America, Berkeley, University of California Press, and New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006, pp. xiii, 332, illus., £29.00, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-520-24749-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 287-288
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Keith Sykes (editor) with John Bunker (contributing editor), Anaesthesia and the practice of medicine: historical perspectives, London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007, pp. xv, 303, illus., £15.95 (paperback 978-1-85315-674-8).
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- 17 May 2012, p. 419
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Toine Pieters, Interferon: the science and selling of a miracle drug, Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp. xvi, 264, illus., £90.00, $155.00 (hardback 0-415-34246-5). Also available as a Kindle e-book through Amazon Digital Services, $75.60 (including free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet; http://www.amazon.com/Interferon-Science-Selling-Technology-Medicine/dp/B000OI15WA/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1//s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Toine%20Pieters).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 288-289
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Richard DeGrandpre, The cult of pharmacology: how America became the world's most troubled drug culture, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. x, 294, £14.99, $24.95 (hardback, 978-0-8223-3881-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 142-143
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Paul D Blanc, How everyday products make people sick: toxins at home and in the workplace, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2007, pp. x, 374, £32.50, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-520-24881-6), £12.95, $19.95 (paperback 978-0-520-24882-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 551-552
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Hippocrates, On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J Schiefsky, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 28, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp. xiii, 415, €134.00, $181.00 (hardback 90-04-13758-0).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 143-144
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Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous conditions: science and the body politic in early industrial Britain, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006, pp. xi, 276, $75.00 (hardback 978-0-7914-6679-7), $24.95 (paperback 978-0-7914-6680-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 420-421
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Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, Mad dogs and Englishmen: rabies in Britain, 1830–2000, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 247, illus., £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-54240-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 552-553
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Anne Borsay and Sara Knight (eds), Medical records for the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1890–1948: an annotated guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 416, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-708-32047-1).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 290-291
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Véronique Boudon-Millot (ed. and trans.), Galien: Introduction générale; Sur l'ordre de ses propres livres; Sur ses propres livres; Que l'excellent médecin est aussi philosophe, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2007, pp. ccxxxviii, 315, €75.00 (paperback 978-2-251-00536-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 144-145
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Steven Thompson, Unemployment, poverty and health in interwar South Wales, Studies in Welsh History, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. xvii, 296, £45.00 (hardback 978-0-7083-2042-6).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 291-292
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