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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 45 - 2001

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Peter Bartlett, The Poor Law of lunacy: the administration of pauper lunatics in midnineteenth-century England, London and Washington, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. xix, 310, £55.00 (hardback 0-7185-0104-7). Available in USA from Continuum, PO Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172.

Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine for the soul. The life, death and resurrection of an English medieval hospital: St Giles's, Norwich, c. 1249–1550, Thrupp, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. xviii, 334, illus., £30.00, $55.00 (hardback 0-7509-2009-2).

Robert N Proctor, The Nazi war on cancer, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. x, 380, illus., £17.95, $29.95 (hardback 0-691-00196-0).

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Population Trends: The Eighteenth Century and Earlier

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Wolfgang U Eckart, Medizin und Kolonialimperialismus: Deutschland 1884–1945, Paderborn and Munich, Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997, pp. 638, illus., DM 78.00 (3-506-72181-X).

Monica H Green, Women's healthcare in the medieval west: texts and contexts, Variorum Collected Studies Series CS680, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, pp. 412, illus., £59.50 (hardback 0-86078-826-1).

Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy (eds), Medicine and modern warfare, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 55, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1999, pp. iii, 286, Hfl. 150.00, $83.00 (hardback 90420-0546-7), Hfl. 45.00, $25.50 (paperback 90-420-0536-X).

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The Agricultural Revolution

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Christine Stevenson, Medicine and magnificence: British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660–1815, New Haven and London, Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2000, pp. viii, 312, illus., £30.00 (hardback 0-300-08536-2).

Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830–1930, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 581, £45.00, $69.95 (0-521-64288-4).

The Impact of the Agricultral Revolution on Food: The Cardiac Consequences

Fats: Saturated and Unsaturated

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Jane Sharp, The midwives book or the whole art of midwifry discovered, edited by Elaine Hobby, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xliii, 323, illus., £30.00 (hardback 0-19-508652-X).

Helen Nicholson (ed.), The military orders. Volume 2: Welfare and warfare, Aldershot and Brookfield, Ashgate, 1998, pp. xxviii, 412, illus., £59.50 (0-86078-679-X).

Suzanne E Hatty and James Hatty, The disordered body: epidemic disease and cultural transformation, SUNY series in Medical Anthropology, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. v, 362, $18.95 (paperback 0-7914-4366-3).

Minta Collins, Medieval herbals: the illustrative traditions, The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture, London, British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 334, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-71234638-4), £19.95 (paperback 0-7123-46414).

The Impact of the Agricultral Revolution on Food: The Cardiac Consequences

Dietary Fats and Coronary Heart Disease

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Irvine Loudon, The tragedy of childbed fever, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. ix, 236, £40.00 (0-19-820499-X).

Daniel Schäfer, Geburt aus dem Tod Der Kaiserschnitt an Verstorbenen in der abendldndischen Kultur, Schriften zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, no. 20, Hurtgenwald, Guido Pressler, 1999, pp. 301, illus. (3-87646-089-1).

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