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Volume 53 - 2009

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Book Reviews

Michelle Allen, Cleansing the city: sanitary geographies in Victorian London, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2008, pp. x, 225, illus., £34.50, $49.95 (hardback 978-0-8214-1770-6), £17.50, $24.95 (paperback 978-0-8214-1771-3).

Marcos Cueto, Cold war, deadly fevers: malaria eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975, Washington, DC, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xvi, 264, £30.00, $45.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8645-4).

Sarah Hodges, Contraception, colonialism and commerce: birth control in South India, 1920–1940, History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, pp. xi, 170, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-3809-4).

Letters

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 186 through 200, 1865–1895

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Rod Edmond, Leprosy and empire: a medical and cultural history, Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. x, 255, illus., £50.00 (hardback 978-0-521-86584-5).

Josep Lluís Barona, Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, La salud y el estado: el movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851–1945), Universitat de València, 2008, pp. 366, illus., no price given (paperback 978-84-370-6974-6).

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Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 201 through 233, 1865–1895

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Priscilla Wald, Contagious: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative, Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2008, pp. xi, 373, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-8223-4128-4); £13.99 (paperback 978-0-8223-4153-6).

Mark Jackson (ed.), Health and the modern home, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 31, New York and Abingdon, Routledge, 2007, pp. ix, 339, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-415-95610-9).

Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling (eds), Mental illness and learning disability since 1850: finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 22, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. xii, 234, £70.00 (hardback 978-0-415-36491-1).

Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Die “Wiener Krankheit”. Eine Sozialgeschichte der Tuberkulose in Österreich, Sozial- und wirtschafts-historische Studien, Band 32. Vienna, Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Munich, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, pp. 397, €49.80 (paperback 978-3-7028-0431-2).

Ann Zulawski, Unequal cures: public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900–1950, Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2007, pp. x, 253, £53.00, $78.95 (hardback 978-0-8223-3900-7), £13.99, $21.95 (paperback 978-0-8223-3916-8).

Letters

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 234 through 264, 1865–1895

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Klaus Bergdolt, Wellbeing: a cultural history of healthy living, transl. Jane Dewhurst, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009, pp. ix, 366, £60.00, (hardback 978-0-7456-2913-1), £18.99 (paperback 978-0-7456-2914-8).

Viviane Quirke, Collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry: changing relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965, Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, Routledge, 2008, pp. x, 365, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-415-30982-0).

David P Cline, Creating choice: a community responds to the need for abortion and birth control, 1961–1973, Palgrave Studies in Oral History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 290, £14.99 (paperback 1-4039-6814-4).

Letters

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 265 through 287, 1865–1895

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Gregg Mitman, Breathing space: how allergies shape our lives and landscapes, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007, pp. xv, 312, £20.00, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-300-11035-7).

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