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Volume 41 - 1997

Book Reviews

Anne Digby and John Stewart (eds), Gender, health and welfare, London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. x, 239, £40.00 (0-415-12886-2).

A C Crombie, Science, art and nature in medieval and modem thought, London and Rio Grande, Hambledon Press, 1996, pp. xvi, 516, £40.00 (1-85285-067-1).

Irving Loudon (ed.), Childbed fever: a documentary history, Diseases, Epidemics, and Medicine series, New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1995, pp. xvii, 224, $43.00 (0-8153-1079-X).

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Jeffrey P Baker, The machine in the nursery: incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. x, 247, illus., £37.00 (0-8018-5173-4).

Charlotte G Borst, Catching babies: the professionalization of childbirth, 1870–1920, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. xi, 254, £25.50 (0-674-10262-2).

Darrel W Amundsen, Medicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. xv, 391, £33.00 (0-8010-5109-2).

Janet Golden, A social history of wet nursing in America: from breast to bottle, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 215, £40.00, $54.95 (0-521-49544-X).

Olwen Hufton, The prospect before her: a history of women in western Europe, volume one, 1500–1800, London, HarperCollins, 1995, pp. xiv, 654, illus., £25.00 (0-0-255120-9).

Marie-Luise Windemuth, Das Hospital als Träger der Armenfürsorge im Mittelalter, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 36, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1995, pp. 164, illus., DM/SFR 66.00.

Bernard Harris, The health of the schoolchild: a history of the school medical service in England and Wales, Buckingham and Philadelphia, Open University Press, 1995, pp. x, 260, £45.00 (hardback 0-335-09995-5), £16.90 (paperback 0-335-09994-7).

Christa Hagenmeyer, Das Regimen Sanitatis Konrads von Eichstätt, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 35, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1995, pp. 262, no price given (3-515-06510-5).

Martin Dinges (ed.), Weltgeschichte der Homoopathie. Länder—Schulen—Heilkundige, Munich, C H Beck, 1996, pp. 445, illus., DM 58.00 (3-406-40700-5).

Socrates Litsios, The tomorrow of malaria, Wellington, NZ, Pacific Press, 1996, pp. 181 (0-9583418-3-4).

Linne R Mooney, The index of Middle English prose, handlist XI: manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridge, D S Brewer, 1995, pp. xxxviii, 251, £45.00, $63.00 (0-85991-457-7).

Henry Friedlander, The origins of Nazi genocide: from euthanasia to the final solution, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995, pp. xxiii, 421, $34.95 (0-8078-2208-6).

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