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Volume 46 - January 2002

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Angelika C Messner, Medizinische Diskurse zu Irresein in China (1600-1930), Miunchener Ostasiatische Studien, vol. 78, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2000, pp. 294, DM 84.00, SFr 84.00 (paperback 3-515-07548-8).

Christoph Kopke (ed.), Medizin und Verbrechen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Walter Wuttke, Ulm, Klemm & Oelschlager, 2001, pp. 320, DM 49.80 (paperback 3-932577-32-9).

A M G Rutten, Dutch transatlantic medicine trade in the eighteenth century under the cover of the West Indies Company, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2000, pp. 168, illus., Hfl. 59.50 (paperback 90-5235-148-1).

Rebecca Flemming, Medicine and the making of Roman women: gender, nature and authority from Celsus to Galen, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xii, 453, £55.00 (hardback 0-19-924002-7).

Sue Minter, The apothecaries' garden: a new history of the Chelsea Physic Garden, Thrupp, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2000, pp. xiii, 210, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-7509-2449-7).

Jonathan D Moreno, Undue risk: secret state experiments on humans, New York and London, Routledge, 2001, pp. xx, 371, £11.95 (paperback 0-415-92835-4).

Louis Rosenfeld, Four centuries of clinical chemistry, Amsterdam, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1999, pp. xvii, 562, illus., £91.00 (hardback 90-5699-645-2).

John R Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, pp. xxii, 420, illus., £59.50 (hardback 0-7546-0080-7).

Peter Lewis Allen, The wages of sin: sex and disease, past and present, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. xxii, 202, illus., £17.50, $25.00 (hardback 0-226-01460-6).

Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle (1627–1691): scrupulosity and science, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2000, pp. ix, 293, £50.00, US$90.00 (hardback 1-085115-798-X).

Harry M Marks, The progress of experiment: science and therapeutic reform in the United States, 1900–1990, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xii, 258, £45.00, $59.95 (hardback 0-521-58142-7), £14.95, $19.95 (paperback 0-521-78561-8).

Robert Richardson, Heart and scalpel: a history of cardiac surgery, rev. ed., London, Quiller Press, 2001, pp. viii, 310, illus., £18.50 (hardback 1-899163-70-0).

David Dranove, The economic evolution of American health care: from Marcus Welby to managed care, Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 211, $27.95 (hardback 0-691-00693-8).

Keith Wailoo, Dying in the city of the blues: sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2001, pp. xi, 338, illus., £29.50, $34.95 (hardback 0-8078-2584-0), £14.50, $16.95 (paperback 0-8078-4896-4).

Alexander Murray, Suicide in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The violent against themselves, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. xxiii, 485, illus., £30.00 (hardback 0-19-820539-2).

Gary Taylor, Castration: an abbreviated history of western manhood, New York and London, Routledge, 2000, pp. 307, £15.99 (hardback 0-415-92785-4).

Steven J Peitzman, A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850–1998, New Brunswick and London, Rutgers University Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 322, illus., US$60.00 (hardback 0-8135-2815-1), US$22.00 (paperback 0-8135-2816-X).

Jean-Pierre Bénézet Pharmacie et médicament en Méditerranée occidentale (XIIIe–XVIe siècles), Sciences, Techniques et Civilisations du Moyen Âge à l'Aube des Lumières, Paris, Honore Champion, 1999, pp. 794 (hardback 2-7453-0001-6).

John Harley Warner and Janet A Tighe (eds), Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health: documents and essays, Major Problems in American History Series, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, pp. xix, 538, $34.00 (paperback 0-395-95435-5).

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