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Volume 46 - January 2002

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Jerry L Gaw, “A time to heal”: the diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 89, pt 1, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1999, pp. xii, 173, illus., $25.00 (0-87169-891-9).

Gabrielle Hatfield, Memory, wisdom and healing: the history of domestic plant medicine, Thrupp, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. ix, 209, illus., £25.00, US$36.00 (0-7509-1945-0).

James E Strick, Sparks of life: Darwinism and the Victorian debates over spontaneous generation, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. xi, 283, £30.95 (hardback 0-674-00292-X).

Derek A Dow, Maori health and government policy, 1840–1940, Wellington, New Zealand, Victoria University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1999, pp. 280, illus., NZ$39.95 (paperback 0-86473-366-6).

Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British popular culture 1800-2000: perfect pleasures, Studies in Popular Culture, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. xii, 284, illus., £15.99 (paperback 0-7190-5257-2).

Christian Bonah, Instruire, guerir, servir. Formation, recherche et pratique medicales en France et en Allemagne pendant la deuxieme moitie du XIXe siécle, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2000, pp. 623, E22.87 (paperback 2-86820-122-9).

Felix Driver, Geography militant: cultures of exploration and empire, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000, pp. viii, 258, illus., £16.99 (paperback 0-631-20112-2).

Nicolaas A Rupke (ed.), Medical geography in historical perspective, Medical History, Supplement No. 20, London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2000, pp. xii, 227, illus., £32.00, US$50.00 (hardback 0-85484-072-9).

Chandak Sengoopta, Otto Weininger: sex, science, and self in imperial Vienna, Chicago series on Sexuality, History, and Society, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. x, 239, £20.50, $29.00 (hardback 0-226-74867-7).

Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds), Health, medicine and empire: perspectives on colonial India, New Perspectives in South Asian History 1, London, Sangam Books, 2001, pp. x, 408, £29.95 (hardback 0-86311-859-3).

Robert Richardson, Larrey: surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard, revised edition, London, Quiller Press, 2000 (first published 1974), pp. x, 269, illus., £16.95 (hardback 1-899163-60-3).

Charles G Roland, Long night&s journey into day: prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941–1945, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2001, pp. xxviii, illus., $28.95 (paperback 0-88920-362-8).

Frank A Barrett, Disease and geography: the history of an idea, Geographical Monographs, vol. 23, Toronto, York University-Atkinson College, 2000, pp. xv, 571, Can. $60.00, US$50.00 (paperback 1-55014-3964). Orders to: Becker Associates, Box 507, Station Q, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2M5, Canada.

David A Gerber (ed.), Disabled veterans in history, Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp. viii, 348, £31.00, $49.50 (hardback 0-472-11033-0).

Jeff Wheelwright, The irritable heart: the medical mystery of the Gulf War, New York and London, W W Norton, 2001, pp. 427, £21.00 (hardback 0-393-01956-X).

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