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John R Hinnells and Roy Porter (eds), Religion, health and suffering, London, Kegan Paul International, 1999, pp. xviii, 495, illus., £65.00, $110.00 (0-7103-0611-3).

Ian A Burney, Bodies of evidence: medicine and the politics of the English inquest, 1830–1926, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. x, 245, £31.00 (hardback 0-8018-6240-x).

Angus McLaren, Twentieth-century sexuality: a history, Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times series, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999, pp. viii, 295, £50.00 (hardback 0-631-20812-7), £15.99 (paperback 0-631-20813-5).

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Anne Borsay, Medicine and charity in Georgian Bath: a social history of the General Infirmary, c. 1739–1830, History of Medicine in Context series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. xxii, 484, £55.00 (0-7546-0060-2).

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Sander L Gilman, Love + marriage = death: and other essays on representing difference, Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. ix, 247, £30.00, $49.50 (hardback 0-8047-3261-2), £10.95, $17.95 (paperback 0-8047-3262-0).

William K Livingston, Pain and suffering, ed. Howard L Fields, Seattle, IASP Press, 1998, pp. xvii, 250, $48.00 (0-931092-24-8).

Martin Gorsky, Patterns of philanthropy: charity and society in nineteenth-century Bristol, Studies in History, New Series, vol. 15, Woodbridge, Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1999, pp. xiv, 274, illus., £40.00, $75.00 (hardback 1-086193-2455).

Jock Murray and Janet Murray, Sir Charles Tupper: fighting doctor to father of confederation, Canadian Medical Lives, Toronto, Associated Medical Services Inc. and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999, pp. 155, illus., $18.95 (hardback 1-55041-183-7).

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V M Leveaux, The history of the Derbyshire General Infirmary, 1810–1894, Cromford, Scarthin Books, 1999, pp. viii, 151, illus., £18.95 (hardback 1-900446-00-6).

Elizabeth Malcolm and Greta Jones (eds), Medicine, disease and the state in Ireland, 1650–1940, Cork University Press, 1999, pp.x, 278, £40.00 (hardback 1-85918-110-4), £15.95 (paperback 1-85918-230-5).

Cormac Ó Grada, Black '47 and beyond: the great Irish famine in history, economy, and memory, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. xii, 302, £21.95 (0-691-01550-3).

Laurinda Abreu, Memórias da alma e do corpo. A Misericórdia de Setütbal na modernidade, Raiz do Tempo series, Vlseu, Palimage Editores, 1999, pp. 493 (972-97848-3-3).

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Eduard Seidler, Kinderärzte 1933–1945: entrechtet—geflohen—ermordet. Pediatricians: victims of persecution 1933–1945Bonn, Bouvier, 2000, pp. 494, illus., DM 58.00 (hardback 3-416-02919-4).

Udo Benzenhöfer, Der gute Tod? Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Munich, C H Beck, 1999, pp. 272, DM 24.00 (paperback 3406-42128-8).

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