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Volume 55 - October 2011

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Catherine Mills, Regulation Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. xxv + 284, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6087-3.

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Linda Bryder, Women’s Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. vi + 250, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-23603-5.

Robert Tattersall, Diabetes: The Biography, Biographies of Disease Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 223, £12.99/$24.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-954136-2.

Sue Hawkins, Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. xii + 228, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-55169-4.

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Trevor Hamilton, Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2009), pp. 359, £19.95, hardback, ISBN: 9-781845-401238.

Catharine Coleborne, Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. xv + 220, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-57807-4.

Galina Kichigina, The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica, 87 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), pp. vi + 374, €76.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-420-2658-2.

Meegan Kennedy, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010), pp. x + 261, $39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8142-1116-8.

Karen Chase, The Victorians and Old Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. xiv + 284, £58.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-956436-1.

W.F. Bynum and Caroline Overy (eds), Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, 1865–1895, Medical History Supplement, No. 28 (London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009), pp. xix + 329, £35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8584-124-0.

Steven Palmer, Lauching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, Conversations in Medicine and Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), pp. xi + 301, $70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-07089-3.

Jonathan Reinarz, Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals 1779–1939 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009), pp. xii + 276, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84383-506-6.

Anne Digby and Howard Phillips, with Harriet Deacon and Kirsten Thomson, At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital, 1938–2008 (Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2008), pp. xxxii + 398, R250.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-77009-642-4.

Jeffrey M. Jentzen, Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 290, $49.95/£36.95/€45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-03453-2.

Elizabeth Lane Furdell, Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain Until Insulin, History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. xii + 195, €99.00/ $158.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-17250-0.

Robert Olby, Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2009), pp. xix + 538, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-87969-798-3.

Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge, Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs: Health and Society in Britain since the 1960s, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. x + 242, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-52140-7.

Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman and Janet K. Shim (eds), Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the US (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xi + 498, £20.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8223-4570-1.

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