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Anita Guerrinii, Obesity and depression in the Enlightenment: the life and times of George Cheyne, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000, pp. xx, 283, $25.00 (hardback 0-8061-3159-4), $15.95 (paperback 0-8061-3201-9).

Roger French, Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham and Luis Garcia-Bailester (eds), Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease, History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998, pp. vii, 330, £49.50 (1-85928-382-9).

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Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke, Nurses in Nazi Germany: moral choice in history, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. xvii, 343, £21.95 (hardback 0-691-00665-2).

Andrea Carlino, Books of the body: anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, trans. John Tedeschi and Anne C Tedeschi, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 266, illus., £20.50 (0-226-09287-9).

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José M López Piñero, et at, La actividad cientifica valenciana de la ilustración, 2 vols, València, Diputacio de Valencia, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 254; vol. 2, pp. 320 (complete set 84-7795-150-0).

Anthony Brinton Wolbarst, Looking within: How X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound and other medical images are created and how they help physicians save lives, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 206, illus., $50.00 (hardback 0-520-21181-2), $19.95 (paperback 0-520-21182-0).

Mary M Lay, Laura J Gurak, Clare Gravon, Cynthia Myntii (eds), Body talk: rhetoric, technology, reproduction, Rhetoric of the Human Sciences, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 308, £18.50 (paperback 0-299-16794-1).

Jacques Baur, Les Manuscrits du Docteur Comte Sebastien Des Guidi, Grand homeopathes de notre temps, Paris, Editions Similia, 1999, pp. 406 (2-84251-029-1).

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Frank Fenner and Bernardino Fantini, Biological control of vertebrate pests: the history of myxomatosis, an experiment in evolution, Wallingford, CABI Publishing, 1999, pp. xii, 339, illus., £60.00 (0-85199-323-0).

Mirko D Grmek (ed.), Western medical thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, coordinated by Bernardino Fantini, translated by Antony Shugaar, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. 478, £30.95 (0-674-40355-X).

Helen King, Hippocrates' woman: reading the female body in ancient Greece, London and New York, Routledge, 1998, pp. xvi, 322, £50.00 (hardback 0-415-13894-9), £16.99 (paperback 0-415-13895-7).

Thomas Dormandy, The white death: a history of tuberculosis, London and Rio Grande, Hambledon Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 433, illus., £25.00 (1-85295-169-4).

Susan Resnik, Blood saga: hemophilia, AIDS, and the survival of a community, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 292, illus.,$29.95 (hardback 0-520-21105-2).

William Croone, On the reason of the movement ofthe muscles, translation by Paul Maquet, Introduction by Margaret Nayler, Transactions ofthe American Philosophical Society, vol. 90, Pt 1, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2000, pp. 130, $20.00 (0-87169-901-X).

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