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Volume 53 - 2009

Book Reviews

Teresa Ortiz Gómez, Medicina, historia y género: 130 años de investigación feminista, Colección Alternativas, 23, Oviedo, KRK Ediciones, 2006, pp. 362, €23.95 (paperback 978-84-96476-52-3).

David Gentilcore, Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. xv, 426, illus., £65.00 (hardback 978-0-19-924535-2).

Sayantani DasGupta, Marsha Hurst (eds), Stories of illness and healing: women write their bodies, Literature and Medicine, No. 10, Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 329, $37.95 (paperback 978-0-87338-916-7).

David M Turner and Kevin Stagg (eds), Social histories of disability and deformity, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 25, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. xiv, 198, £65.00 (hardback 978-0-415-36098-2).

Letters

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 288 through 310, 1865–1895

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Timothy Boon, Films of fact: a history of science in documentary films and television, London and New York, Wallflower Press, 2008, pp. xi, 312, illus., £16.99 (paperback 978-1-905674-37-4).

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Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 311 through 329, 1865–1895

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John Welshman and Jan Walmsley (eds), Community care in perspective: care, control and citizenship, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xxi, 278, £55.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-9265-9), £19.99 (paperback 978-1-4039-9266-6).

Helen Bömelburg, Der Arzt und sein Modell. Porträtfotografien aus der deutschen Psychiatrie 1880 bis 1933, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Band 30, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2007, pp. 238, €38.00 (paperback 978-3-515-09069-8).

Angus McLaren, Impotence: a cultural history, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. xvii, 332, £19.00, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-226-50076-8).

Thomas Hofmeier, Michael Maiers Chymisches Cabinet. Atalanta fugiens deutsch nach der Ausgabe von 1708, Berlin and Basel, Thurneysser, 2007, pp. 389, €29.00, SFr 45.00 (paperback 978-3-939176-46-6).

Peter J Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J Oddy (eds), Food and the city in Europe since 1800, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvi, 260, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-4989-2)

Bengt Jangfeldt, Axel Munthe: the road to San Michele, translated by Harry Watson, London and New York, I B Tauris, 2008, pp. ix, 383, illus., £25.00 (hardback 978-1-84511-720-7).

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Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 330 through 363, 1865–1895

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Paola Bertucci, Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie: scienza e curiosità nell'Italia del settecento, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2007, pp. 294, €28.00 (paperback 978-88-339-1802-0).

Werner Troesken, The great lead water pipe disaster, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2007, pp. 318, £19.95, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-262-20167-4), £10.95, $15.95 (paperback 978-0-262-70125-9).

Nicolas Rasmussen, On speed: the many lives of amphetamine, New York and London, New York University Press, 2008, pp. ix, 352, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-8147-7601-8).

Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman (eds), Shifting boundaries of public health: Europe in the twentieth century, Rochester Studies in Medical History, vol. 12, Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2008, pp. viii, 338, £50.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-1-58046-283-9).

Véronique Bouillier and Gilles Tarabout (eds), Images du corps dans le monde hindou, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2002, pp. 509, illus., €42.00 (paperback 2-271-06060-5).

Letters

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 364 through 385, 1865–1895

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