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Louise Hill Curth, English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine: 1550–1700, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 283, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-6928-4).

Carole Rawcliffe, Leprosy in medieval England, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 421, illus., £60.00, $105.00 (hardback 1-184383 2739).

Cynthia A Connolly, Saving sickly children: the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909–1970, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 182, illus., £27.50, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-8135-4267-6).

Peter Jones, A surgical revolution: surgery in Scotland 1837–1901, Edinburgh, John Donald, 2007, pp. 231, £20.00 (paperback 10-0-85976-684-5).

Sandra Cavallo, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: identities, families and masculinities, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xii, 281, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-7662-6).

Alice Boardman Smuts with the assistance of Robert W Smuts, R Malcolm Smuts, Barbara B Smuts, and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Science in the service of children, 1893–1935, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xiv, 381, £20.00, $32.00 (paperback 978-0-300-14435-2).

Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the earth, rooted in the sky: Hildegard of Bingen and premodern medicine, Studies in Medieval History and Culture, New York and London, Routledge, 2006, pp. xviii, 326, illus., £55.00, $75.00 (hardback 0-415-97634-0; 978-0-415-97634-3).

Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book V: The organs of nutrition and generation, transl. William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman, Novato, CA, Norman Publishing, 2007, pp. xix, 257, illus. $275,00 (hardback 978-0-930405-88-5).

Danielle Jacquart, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (eds), La scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi, Florence, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007, pp. xiv, 592, €68.00 (paperback 978-88-8450-232-2).

Wendy Moore, The knife man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery, London, Bantam Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 482, illus., £18.99 (hardback 0-593-05209-9).

Susan P Mattern, Galen and the rhetoric of healing, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. x, 279, £36.50, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8835-9).

Anne Stiles (ed.), Neurology and literature, 1860–1920, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 229, £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52094-3).

Rosemary Elliot, Women and smoking since 1890, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 29, London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xiii, 225, illus., £65.00 (hardback 978-0-415-34059-5).

Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide (eds), Health and healing from the medieval garden, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 256, illus., £50.00, $95.00 (hardback 978-1-84383-363-5).

Daniel Lord Smail, On deep history and the brain, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 271, £12.95, 21.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25289-9), £9.95, $15.95 (paperback 978-0-520-25812-9).

Katharine A Craik, Reading sensations in early modern England, Early Modern Literature in History, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. xi, 200, £45.00, $69.95 (hardback 978-1-4039-2192-5).

Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar, Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 7, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. x, 619, €169.00, $237.00 (hardback 978-90-04-16120-7).

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