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Volume 53 - 2009

Book Reviews

Andrew Mangham, Violent women and sensation fiction: crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. ix, 247, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-230-54521-2).

John Henderson, Peregrine Horden and Alessandro Pastore (eds), The impact of hospitals 300–2000, Oxford and Bern, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 426, illus., £48.00 (paperback 978-3-03911-001-8)

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, New York, Zone Books, 2007, pp. 501, 32 colour plates, 108 black and white illus., £25.95, $38.95 (hardback 978-1-890951-78-8).

Deborah Madden, ‘A cheap, safe and natural medicine’: religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley’s Primitive physic, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 83, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 313, €65.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2274-4).

Nicholas Coni, Medicine and warfare: Spain, 1936–1939, Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, New York and London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xxv, 266, £65.00 (hardback 0-415-38597-0).

Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (eds), Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. ix, 267, illus, £55.00 (hardcover 978-0-7546-5638-8).

M A Katritzky, Women, medicine and theatre, 1500–1750: literary mountebanks and performing quacks, Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvi, 367, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5084-3).

James Robert Allard, Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body, The Nineteenth Century Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. viii, 166, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5891-7).

Marion Maria Ruisinger, Patientenwege. Die Konsiliarkorrespondenz Lorenz Heisters (1683–1758) in der Trew-Sammlung Erlangen, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beiheft 28, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2008, pp. 308, €43.00 (paperback 978-3-515-08806-0).

Anna Crozier, Practising colonial medicine: the Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa, London and New York, I B Tauris, 2007, pp. xiv, 225, £47.50 (hardback 978-1-84511-459-6).

A M G Rutten, Blue ships: Dutch ocean crossing with multifunctional drugs and spices in the eighteenth century, translated by Dr J Wormer, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2008, pp. 154, €32.50 (hardback 978-90-5235-199-5).

Michelle Renshaw, Accommodating the Chinese: the American Hospital in China, 1880–1920, East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture series, New York and London, Routledge, 2005, pp. xxii, 312, illus., £55.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-0-415-97285-7).

Christopher E Forth and Bertrand Taithe (eds), French masculinities: history, culture and politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. xi, 249, illus., £50.00 (hardback 978-0-230-00661-4).

G A Lindeboom, Herman Boerhaave: the man and his work, second edition, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2007, pp. xxx, 372, illus., €49.50 (hardback 978-90-5235-137-7).

Sean M Quinlan, The great nation in decline: sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c. 1750–1850, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xi, 265, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-6098-9).

Sandra M Sufian, Healing the land and the nation: malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920–1947, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. xx, 385, $40.00, £21.00 (hardback 978-0-226-77935-5).

Thomas Söderqvist (ed.), The history and poetics of scientific biography, Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945 series, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xv, 270, illus., £55.00, (hardback 978- 0-7546-5181-9).

Robert Woods, Children remembered: responses to untimely death in the past, Liverpool University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 288, illus., £29.95 (hardback 978-1-84631-021-8).

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