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Volume 51 - 01 October 2007

Book Reviews

Kevin Siena (ed.), Sins of the flesh: responding to sexual disease in early modern Europe, Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005, pp. 292, Canadian $35.00, US $28.00 (paperback 0-7727-2029-0).

John L Burton (ed.), ‘Six hundred miseries’: the seventeenth century womb: book 15 of ‘The practice of physick’ by Lazare Rivière, trans. Nicholas Culpeper (London 1678), London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2005, pp. xvi, 216, illus., £24.95 (hardback 1-904752-13-6).

Stephanie Moss and Kaara L Peterson (eds), Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. xvii, 218, £45.00 (hardback 0-7546-3791-3).

Sheila Sweetinburgh, The role of the hospital in medieval England: gift-giving and the spiritual economy, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2004, pp. 286, illus., £55.00, €65.00 (hardback 1-85182-794-3).

Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Blood in history and blood histories, Micrologus' Library, no. 13 Florence, Sismel, Edizione del Galluzzo, 2005, pp. 388, illus., €49.00 (paperback, 88-8450-162-8).

Katharina Ernst, Krankheit und Heiligung. Die medikale Kultur württembergischer Pietisten im 18. Jahrhundert, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg, 154, Stuttgart, W Kohlhammer, 2003, pp. XXVI, 258, €22.50, SFr 38.00 (hardback 3-17-018103-3)

Alan Derickson, Health security for all: dreams of universal health care in America, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 240, $30.00, £20.00 (hardback 0-8018-8081-5).

Jacques Gélis, Les enfants des limbes: mort-nés et parents dans l' Europe chrétienne, Paris, Louis Audibert, 2006, pp. 396, illus., €23.00 (paperback 2-84749-068-X).

W F Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and E M Tansey, The western medical tradition 1800 to 2000, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 614, illus., £50.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-0-5214-7524-2); £19.99, $29.99 (paperback 978-0-5214-7565-5).

Pamela Michael and Charles Webster (eds), Health and society in twentieth-century Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. xii, 332, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-7083-1908-4).

Susan Lindee, Moments of truth in genetic medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 270, £26.50, $40.00 (hardback 0-8018-8175-7).

Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams (eds), Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700–1920, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. xv, 249, £50.00 (hardback 1-4039-9065-4).

Linda L Barnes, Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the West to 1848, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 458, illus., £31.95, €42.50, $42.95 (hardback 0-674-01872-9).

Keir Waddington, The bovine scourge: meat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850–1914, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2006, pp. ix, 226, £50.00, $85.00 (hardback 1-18483-193-7).

Finger Stanley, Doctor Franklin's medicine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 379, illus., £26.00, $39.95 (hardback 13-978-0-8122-3913-3).

Nikolaj Serikoff, Arabic medical manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: a descriptive catalogue of the Haddād collection (WMS Arabic 401–487), Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 6, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp. xiii, 553, and CD, €175.00, $236.00 (hardback 90-04-14798-5).

Werner Troesken, Water, race, and disease, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2004, pp. xviii, £22.95, $35.00 (hardback 0-262-20148-8).

Jürgen Schlumbohm and Claudia Wiesemann (eds), Die Entstehung der Geburtsklinik in Deutschland 1751–1850: Göttingen, Kassel, Braunschweig, Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2004, pp. 144, illus., €19.00 (paperback 3-89244-711-X).

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