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Volume 45 - Issue 4 - October 2001

Book Reviews

Anita Guerrinii, Obesity and depression in the Enlightenment: the life and times of George Cheyne, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000, pp. xx, 283, $25.00 (hardback 0-8061-3159-4), $15.95 (paperback 0-8061-3201-9).

José M López Piñero, et at, La actividad cientifica valenciana de la ilustración, 2 vols, València, Diputacio de Valencia, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 254; vol. 2, pp. 320 (complete set 84-7795-150-0).

Jacques Baur, Les Manuscrits du Docteur Comte Sebastien Des Guidi, Grand homeopathes de notre temps, Paris, Editions Similia, 1999, pp. 406 (2-84251-029-1).

Susan Resnik, Blood saga: hemophilia, AIDS, and the survival of a community, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 292, illus.,$29.95 (hardback 0-520-21105-2).

Jo Murphy-Lawless, Reading birth and death: a history of obstetric thinking, Cork University Press, 1998, pp. vii, 343, £45.00 (hardback 1-85918-177-5), £15.95 (paperback 1-85918-177-5).

Ludmilla Jordanova, Defining features: scientific and medical portraits 1660–2000, London, Reaktion Books in association with the National Portrait Gallery, 2000, pp. 192, illus., £14.95 (paperback 1-86189-059-1).

Julie V Hansen and Suzanne Porter, The physician's art: representations of art and medicine, Durham, NC, Duke University Medical Center Library and Duke University Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 141, illus., £37.00 (hardback 0-9672946-0-6), £19.95 (paperback 0-9672946-1-4).

Michael J A Howe, Genius explained, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 221, £35.00, $54.00 (hardback 0-521-64018-0), £12.95, $19.95 (paperback 0-521-649684).

Galen, Galien. Tome II: Exhortation à l'étude de la médecine. Art médical, ed. and trans. Veronique Boudon, Collection des Universites de France, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2000, pp. 454, Fr400 (hardback 2-251-00483-1).

Mark Grant, Galen on food and diet, London and New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. ix, 214, illus., £15.99 (paperback 0415-23233-3).

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