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Volume 46 - January 2002

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Jennifer Terry, An American obsession: science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. xiv, 537, $75.00 (hardback 0-226-79366-4), $20.00 (paperback 0-226-79367-2).

Patricia L Garside and Bruce Jackson, Model guide to Lancashire mental hospital records, University of Salford, 2001, pp. vi, 87, illus., £5.00 (+£2.50 p&p). Distributed by: European Studies Research Institute, Telford Building, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT, UK.

Cornelius O'Boyle, The art of medicine: medical teaching at the University of Paris, 1250–1400, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Leiden, Brill, 1998, pp. xv, 330, £104.00, $121.00 (hardback 90-04-11124-7).

Jan Bondeson, Buried alive: the terrifying history of our most primal fear, New York and London, W W Norton, 2001, pp. 320, illus., £18.95 (hardback 0-393-04906-X).

Thomas M Daniel, Pioneers in medicine and their impact on tuberculosis, University of Rochester Press, 2000, pp. xv, 255, illus., £40.00, $65.00 (hardback 1-58046-067-4).

Jon Turney, Frankenstein's footsteps: science, genetics and popular culture, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998 (hardback), 2000 (paperback), pp. ix, 276, illus., £19.95 (hardback 0-300-074174), £11.95 (paperback 0-300-088264).

Andrew Wear, Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 496, £45.00, $74.95 (hardback 0-521-55226-5), £16.95, $27.95 (paperback 0-521-55827-1).

Saul Jarcho (trans. and ed.), The clinical consultations of Francesco Torti, Malabar,FL, published on behalf of the New York Academy of Medicine by Krieger, 2000, pp. xxx, 911, illus., $125.00 (hardback 1-57524-144-7).

Ann Anderson, Snake oil, hustlers and hambones: the American medicine show, Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., 2000, pp. 190, illus., £30.40 (hardback 0-7864-0800-6). Distributed in the UK by Shelwing Ltd, 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DN.

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James F Crow and William F Dove (eds), Perspectives on genetics: anecdotal, historical, and critical commentaries, 1987–1998, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. 734, £16.95, US$19.95 (paperback 0-29916604-X).

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Arne Hessenbruch (ed.), Reader's guide to the history of science, London and Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, pp. xxix, 934, £95.00 (hardback 1-884964-29-X).

Hippocrate, Épidémies V et VII, vol. 4, pt 3, trans. Jacques Jouanna, annotations by Jacques Jouanna and Mirko D Grmek, Collection des Universites de France, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2000, pp. cxlviii, 349, FFr 460 (hardback 2-251-00490-4).

Edgar Jones, The business of medicine: the extraordinary history of Glaxo, a baby food producer, which became one of the world's most successful pharmaceutical companies, London, Profile Books, 2001, pp. xxiii, 520, illus., £25.00 (hardback 186197340-3).

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D R Langslow, Medical Latin in the Roman empire, Oxford Classical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xv, 517, £65.00 (0-19-815279-5).

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