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Volume 53 - 2009

Book Reviews

Marjaana Niemi, Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940, Historical Urban Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xiii, 228, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-0334-4).

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Alex Mold, Heroin: the treatment of addiction in twentieth-century Britain, DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 2008, pp. x, 236, $49.00 (978-0-87580-386-9).

Engin F Isin, Greg M Nielsen (eds), Acts of citizenship, London and New York, Zed Books, 2008, pp. xii, 308, £70.00, $126.00 (hardback 978-1-84277-951-4), £18.99, $34.00 (paperback 978-1-84277-952-1).

Irving L Finkel and Markham J Geller (eds), Disease in Babylonia, Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 36, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2007, pp. viii, 226, €90.00, $122.00 (hardback 978-90-04-12401-1).

Steven J Peitzman, Dropsy, dialysis, transplant: a short history of failing kidneys, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xxi, 213, £16.50, $24.95 (hardback 978-0-8018-8734-5).

Jürgen W Riethmüller, Asklepios: Heiligtümer und Kulte, 2 vols, Heidelberg, Verlag Archäologie und Geschichte, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 392, vol. 2, pp. 508, illus., €135.00 (hardback 3-935289-30-8).

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Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (eds), History and theory of human experimentation: the Declaration of Helsinki and modern medical ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, vol. 2, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2007, pp. 370, €54.00 (hardback, 978-3-515-08862-6).

Gino L Di Mitri, Storia biomedica del tarantismo nel XVIII secolo, Florence, Leo S Olschki, 2006, pp. xxiii, 322, €34.00 (paperback 88-222-5508-9).

Colin L Talley, A history of multiple sclerosis, Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History Series, Westport, CT, Praeger, 2008, pp. xvii, 201, £27.95, $49.95 (hardback 978-0-275-99788-5).

Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Robert Jütte, Medizingeschichte. Eine Einführung, Cologne, Böhlau Verlag, 2007, pp. 378, €19.90 (paperback 978-3-8252-2903-0).

Philippe Mudry, Medicina, soror philosophiae: regards sur la littérature et les textes médicaux antiques (1975–2005), textes réunis et édités par Brigitte Maire, Lausanne, Editions BHMS, 2006, pp. xxvi, 545, €32.00 (paperback 978-2-9700536-0-6).

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Roberta Bivins and John V Pickstone (eds), Medicine, madness and social history: essays in honour of Roy Porter, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 295, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52549-8).

Jan A Witkowski and John R Inglis (eds), Davenport’s dream: 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 298, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-87969-756-3).

Edward Grant, A history of natural philosophy: from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 361, £40.00, $70.00 (hardback 978-0-521-86931-7); £14.99, $24.99 (paperback 978-0-521-68957-1).

Peter McRorie Higgins, Punish or treat? Medical care in English prisons 1770–1850, Victoria, BC, Trafford Publishing, 2007, pp. ix, 283, illus., £14.99, €21.41, $26.07 (paperback 1-4251-0153-4).

Joan Fitzpatrick, Food in Shakespeare: early modern dietaries and the plays, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. ix, 166, £45.00, $89.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5547-3).

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