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Volume 45 - 2001

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Heather Munro Prescott, A doctor of their own: the history of adolescent medicine, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. xi, 238, £21.95 (0-674-21461-7).

William C Summers, Félix d'Herelle and the origins of molecular biology, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. xii, 230, £20.00 (hardback 0-300-07127-2).

Michael Bliss, William Osler: a life in medicine, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 581, illus., £27.50 (hardback0-19-512346-8).

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

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Gayle Greene, The woman who knew too much: Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999, pp. x, 321, illus., £19.95 (hardback 0472-11107-8).

Stephen Haliday, The great stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital, Thrupp, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. xiii, 210, illus., £19.99, $36.95 (0-7509-1975-2).

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

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David Arnold, The new Cambridge history of India, part III, vol. 5: Science, technology and medicine in colonial India, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xii, 234, £35.00, $59.95 (hardback 0-521-56319-4).

Desmond King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin: a life of unequalled achievement, London, Giles de la Mare, 1999, pp. x, 422, illus., £24.00 (paperback 1-900357-08-9).

Peter C English, Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: a biological, epidemiological, and medical history, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. xx, 257, illus., $50.00 (hardback 0-8135-2710-4).

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

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L S Jacyna, Lost words: narratives of language and the brain, 1825–1926, Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. x, 241, illus., £28.50, $45.00 (hardback 0-691-00413-7).

Robert Boyd, The coming of the spirit of pestilence: introduced infectious diseases and population decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774–1874, Seattle, University of Washington Press; Vancouver, UBC Press, 1999, pp. xv, 403, illus., $50.00 (hardback 0-295-97837-6).

Michael R Finn, Proust: the body and literary form, Cambridge Studies in French 59, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 207, £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-64189-6).

B Innes Williams, The matter of motion and Galvani's frogs, Bletchingdon, Rana, 2000, pp. vi, 298, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-9538092-OX). Orders to: Rana, Courtyard House, Church End, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire OX5 3DL.

Evelynn Maxine Hammonds, Childhood's deadly scourge: the campaign to control diphtheria in New York City, 1880–1930, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 299, £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-5978-6).

Laurence Monnais-Rousselot, Médecine et colonisation: I'aventure indochinoise, 1860–1939, Paris, CNRS Editions, 1999, pp. 248 (2-271-05657-8).

Peter C Jupp and Clare Gitfings (eds), Death in England: an illustrated history, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 290, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-7190-5470-2), £19.99 (paperback 0-7190-5811-2).

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