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Volume 52 - October 2008

Book Reviews

Miriam Nicoli, Apporter les lumières au plus grand nombre: médecine et physique dans le Journal de Lausanne (1786–1792), Lausanne, Editions Antipodes, 2006, pp. 260, €22.00, Sw Fr 33.00 (paperback 2-940146-82-9).

Philip M Soergel (ed.), Sexuality and culture in medieval and renaissance Europe. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, vol. II, New York, AMS Press, 2005, pp xv, 287, $89.50 (hardback: ISSN 0081-8244, ISBN 0-404-64552-6).

Bruce T Moran, Andreas Libavius and the transformation of alchemy: separating chemical cultures with polemical fire, Sagamore Beach, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2007, pp. viii, 344, $49.95 (hardback 978-0-88135-395-2).

Franco Giorgianni (ed.), Hippokrates, über die Natur des Kindes (De genitura und De natura pueri), ins Deutsche und Italienische übersetzt und textkritisch kommentiert, Serta Graeca, Band 23, Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2006 pp. xiii, 363, €110.00 (hardback 978-3-89500-493-3).

Misia Sophia Doms, “Alkühmisten” und “decoctores”: Grimmelshausen und die Medizin seiner Zeit, Beihefte zu Simpliciana, vol. 3, Bern, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 248, £32.10, €45.80, $54.95 (paperback 978-3-03910-949-4).

Katharine Hodgkin, Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography, Early Modern History: Society and Culture Series, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. vi, 266, £50.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-1765-2).

Lawrence M Principe (ed.), Chymists and chymistry: studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry, Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation and Sagamore Beach, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2007, pp. xiii, 274, $45.00 (hardback 978-0-88135-396-9).

A W Bates, Emblematic monsters: unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe, Clio Medica 77, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 334, illus, €68.00, $85.00 (hardback 90-420-1862-3).

Lucia di Palo, Le Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort di François Xavier Bichat: un lessico fisiologico, Bari, Cacucci Editore, 2005, pp. 224, €25.00 (paperback and DVD 88-8422-398-9).

Lester K Little (ed.), Plague and the end of Antiquity: the pandemic of 541–750, Cambridge University Press in association with the American Academy in Rome, 2007, pp. xvii, 360, £45.00, $75.00 (hardback 978-0-521-84639-4).

A catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome library, vol. 5: Books printed from 1641 to 1850, S–Z, London, The Wellcome Trust, 2006, pp. x, 532, £80.00 (+ £5 p&p) (hardback 1-84129-061-0). (Orders to: The Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.)

Katherine Park, Secrets of women: gender, generation, and the origins of human dissection, New York, Zone Books, 2006, pp. 419, illus., £23.95, $36.95 (hardback 978-1-890951-67-2).

Eve Keller, Generating bodies and gendered selves: the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England, In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2007, pp. xi, 248, £17.99, $30.00 (paperback 978-0-295-98641-8).

Kathleen P Long, Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. x, 268, illus., £50.00, $100.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5609-8).

Alfons Zarzoso, L'Exercici de la medicina a la Catalunya de al Il·lustració (segle XVIII), Manresa, Publicacions de l'Arxiu Històric de les Ciències de la Salut (PAHCS), 2006, pp. 184, illus., no price given (paperback 84-611-2808-7).

Barbara S Bowers (ed.), The medieval hospital and medical practice, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, vol. 3, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xiv, 258, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5110-9).

Ilana Zinguer and Isabelle Martin (eds), Théâtre de l'anatomie et corps en spectacle. Fondements d'une science de la Renaissance, Bern and Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. x, 351, £40.20, €63.10, $68.95 (paperback 978-3-03910-962-3).

Michael Sappol, Dream anatomy: a unique blend of art and medical science from the National Library of Medicine, Washington, United States Department of Health and Human Sciences, 2006, pp. xii, 180, illus., $30.00 (paperback 978-0-16-072473-2).

David E Shuttleton, Smallpox and the literary imagination 1660–1820, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xiii, 265, illus., £48.00, $85.00 (hardback 978-0-521-87209-6).

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