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Volume 43 - 1999

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Jean Théodoridès, Pierre Raver (1793-1867): ln demi-sièle de mÉdecine française, Paris, Éditions Louis Parente, 1997, pp. 266, illus., no price given (2-84059-011-5).

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Eric T DeanJr,, Shook over hell: posttraumatic stress, Vietnam, and the civil war, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. xi, 315, illus., £23.50 (0-674-80651-4).

Scott H Podolsky, Alfred I Tauber, The generation ofdiversity: clonal selection theory and the rise of molecular immunology, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. x, 508, £49.95 (0-674-77181-8).

Albert R Jonsen, The birth of bioethics, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. xiv, 431, $45.00 (hardback 0-19-510325-4).

Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith (eds), The locus of care: families, communities, institutions and the provision of welfare since antiquity, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London, Routledge, 1997, pp. x, 287, £50.00 (0-415-11216-8).

Ira M Rutkow, American surgery: an illustrated history, Philadelphia, LippincottRaven, 1998, pp. xvi, 638, illus., $90.50 (0-316-76352-7).

Don Finley, Mad dogs: the new rabies plague, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1998, pp. 215, $22.95 (hardback 0-89096-804-7), $14.95 (0-89096-922-5).

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Steven B Karch, A brief history of cocaine, Boca Raton and Boston, CRC Press, 1998, pp. xxii, 202, illus., $22.00 (0-849304019-5).

Manfred Waserman and Samuel S Kottek (eds), Health and disease in the Holy Land: studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, Lewiston, NY, and Lampeter, Wales, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996, pp. xii, 489, $109.95 (0-7734-8764-6).

Vernon A Rosario (ed.), Science and homosexualities, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. ix, 308, illus., £12.99 (paperback 0-415-91502-3).

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Robert A Peel (ed.), Essays in the history of eugenics, Proceedings of a conference organized by the Galton Institute, London, 1997, London, Galton Institute, 1998, pp. xv, 233, £5.00 (0-9504066-3-5).

N H Naqvi and M D Blaufox, Blood pressure measurement: an illustrated history, New York and London, Parthenon Publishing, 1998, pp. xiii, 156, illus., £38.00, $65.00 (1-85070-013-3).

Daniel Hickey, Local hospitals in ancien regime France: rationalization, resistance, renewal, 1530–1789, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, pp. xxv, 275, illus., £28.00 (hardback 0-7735-1540-2).

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Benedict F Massell, Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: unravelling the mysteries of a dread disease, Boston, Francis A Countway Library of Medicine, 1997, distributed by Harvard University Press, pp. xi, 394, $25.00 (0-674-76877-9).

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