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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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Heikki Mikkeli, Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition, Humaniora series no. 305, Helsinki, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1999, pp. 195 (951-41-0869-8). Distributor: Bookstore Tiedekirja, Kirkkokatu 14, 00170 Helsinki, Finland. Fax: +358 9 637.

R Ian McCallum, Antimony in medical history: an account of the medical uses of antimony and its compounds since early times to the present, Bishop Auckland and Edinburgh, Pentland Press, 1999, pp. xvi, 125, illus., £15.00 (1-85821-642-7).

Massimo Galuzzi, Gianni Micheli and Maria-Teresa Monti (eds), Le forme della comunicazione scientifica, Milan, Francoangeli, 1998, pp. 438, L. 57,000 (88-464-0924-8).

Jo Murphy-Lawless, Reading birth and death: a history of obstetric thinking, Cork University Press, 1998, pp. vii, 343, £45.00 (hardback 1-85918-177-5), £15.95 (paperback 1-85918-177-5).

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The Interplay of Risk Factors

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Dominik Wujastyk, The roots of āyurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings, New Delhi, Penguin Books (India), 1998, pp. xvi, 389, Rs 250 (0-14-043680-4).

The Aftermath

Angina Pectoris Comes of Age

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Stephen Porter, The great plague, Thrupp, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. ix, 213, illus., £20.00, $34.95 (hardback 0-7509-1615-X).

Margaret Pelling, The common lot: sickness, medical occupations and the urban poor in early modern England, Harlow, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, pp. xiv, 270, £42.00 (hardback 0-582-23183-3); £14.99 (paperback 0-582-23182-5).

Angus McLaren, The trials of masculinity: policing sexual boundaries 1870–1930, Chicago Series on Sexuality, History and Society, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. viii, 307, illus., £19.95, $24.95 (hardback 0-226-50067-5).

Ludmilla Jordanova, Defining features: scientific and medical portraits 1660–2000, London, Reaktion Books in association with the National Portrait Gallery, 2000, pp. 192, illus., £14.95 (paperback 1-86189-059-1).

The Aftermath

Modern Times

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Patrice Debré, Louis Pasteur, trans. Elborg Forster, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, pp. xxvii, 552, illus., £27.50 (hardback 0-8018-5808-9).

Juhani Norri, Names of body parts in English, 1400–1550, Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae, Humaniora, 291, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998, pp. 470 (951-41-0832-9).

Julie V Hansen and Suzanne Porter, The physician's art: representations of art and medicine, Durham, NC, Duke University Medical Center Library and Duke University Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 141, illus., £37.00 (hardback 0-9672946-0-6), £19.95 (paperback 0-9672946-1-4).

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