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Philip J van der Eijk (ed.), Hippocrates in context: papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27–31 August 2002, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp. xvi, 521, €149.00, US$199.00 (hardback 90-04-14430-7).
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Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica, transl. Lily Y Beck, introduction by John Scarborough, Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, Band 38, Hildesheim, Olms-Weidmann, 2005, pp. xxviii, 540, €78.00, US$90.00 (paperback 3-487-12881-0).
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Bruce T Moran, Distilling knowledge: alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution, New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 210, $24.95, £16.95 (hardback 0-674-01495-2).
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José Pardo Tomás, El médico en la palestra: Diego Mateo Zapata (1664–1745) y la ciencia moderna en España, Estudios de historia de la ciencia y de la técnica, no. 25, Valladolid, Junta de Castilla y León, 2004, pp. 456, €25.00 (hardback 84-9718-252-9).
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Christopher Booth, John Haygarth FRS: a physician of the Enlightenment (1740–1827), Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 254, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2005, pp. xv, 169, illus., $60.00 (hardback 0-87169-254-6).
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Charles Darwin, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex, edited and with an introduction by James Moore Adrian Desmond, London, Penguin Books, 2004, pp. lxvi, 791, illus. £9.99 (paperback 0-140-43631-6).
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- 16 November 2012, pp. 558-559
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John C Burnham, What is medical history?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005, pp. vii, 163, £45.00 (hardback 0-7456-3224-6), £17.99 (paperback 0-7456-3225-4).
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Joachim Ritter, Karlfried Fründer and Gottfried Gabriel (eds), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, band 12: W–Z, Basel, Schwabe, 2005, pp. 1555, SFr 368.00, €257.50 (hardback 3-7965-0703-4).
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Jeffery Burley and Kristina Plenderleith (eds), A history of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford: a biography of a building, Oxford, Green College at the Radcliffe Observatory, 2005, pp. viii, 186, illus, £14.50, US$28.00 (hardback 0-9509394). Orders to: The Development Office, Green College at the Radcliffe Observatory, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HG; e-mail: development.office@green.ox.ac.uk
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M J van Lieburg, The history of the Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam, transl. Ko Hagoort, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2004, pp. 232, illus., €27.50 (hardback 90-5235-174-0).
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