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Volume 43 - 1999

Book Reviews

Lars Ole Andersen, Mogens H Claësson, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Anja Norbæk Sørensen, Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt, Akademisk Forlag, 1997, pp. 178, illus. (87-500-3413-8).

Doris H Linder, Crusaderfor sex education: Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886–1973) in Scandinavia and on the international scene, Lanham and London, University Press of America, 1996, pp. vi, 319, illus., $46.50 (0-7618-0333-5).

Axel Karenberg, Lernen am Bett der Kranken. Die frühen Universitätskliniken in Deutschland (1760–1840), Schriften zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Hürtgenwald, Guido Pressler, 1997, pp. 286, illus., DM 160.00 (3-87646-081-6).

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John Krige and Dominique Pestre (eds), Science in the twentieth century, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. xxxv, 941, illus., £80.00, $120.00 (90-5702-172-2).

Mikel Astrain Gallart, Barberos, cirujanos, y gente de mar: la sanidad naval y la profesión quirúrjica en la España ilustrada, Madrid, Ministerio de Defensa, Secretaría General Técnica, 1996, pp. 240, illus., no price given (84-7823-497-7).

Volker Hess (ed.), Normierung der Gesundheit. Messende Verfahren der Medizin als kulturelle Praktik um 1900, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften Heft 82, Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1997, pp. 226, illus., DM 69.00 (3-7868-4082-2).

Alice Domurat Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. xiii, 268, illus., £23.50 (0-674-08927-8).

Ernest Smith and Beryl Cottell, A history of the Royal Dental Hospital of London and School of Dental Surgery, 1858–1985, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press, 1997, pp. xi, 177, £17.95 (0-485-11517-4).

Ronald D Cassell, Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836–1872, Studies in History, Woodbridge, Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1997, pp. x, 181, £35.00, $63.00 (0-86193-228-5).

Keith Wailoo, Drawing blood: technology and disease identitv in twentieth-century America, The Henry E Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. xii, 288, £33.00 (0-8018-5474-1).

Mathew Thomson, The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain c. 1870–1959, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. ix, 351, £48.00 (0-19-820692-5).

Larry R Squire (ed.), The history of neuroscience in autobiography, vol. 1, Washington, DC, Society for Neuroscience, 1996, pp. 607, illus., $49.00 (0-916110-51-6).

Elfriede Grabner, Krankheit und Heilen. Eine Kulturgeschichte der VolksmediZin in den Ostalpen, Vienna, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. iv, 329, illus., OS 390.00 (3-7001-0730-7).

Thomas Schnalke, Medizin im Brief. Der stddtische Arzt des 18. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beihefte 37, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1997, pp. 271, illus., DM/SFr 88.00 (3-515-06725-6).

R W McConchie, Lexicography and physicke: the record of sixteenth-century English medical terminology, Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. xii, 448, £60.00 (0-19-823630-1).

J Worth Estes, Naval surgeon: life and death at sea in the age of sail, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications/USA, 1998, pp. xii, 266, illus., $39.95 (0-88135-194-6).

Christoph Mörgeli (ed.), Europas Medizin im Biedermeier: anhand der Reiseberichte des Zürcher Arztes Conrad Meyer-Hofineister 1827–1831, Basel, Schwabe, 1997, pp. 814, illus., SFr 80.00, DM 96.00 (3-7965-1033-7).

Detlef Haberland, Engelbert Kaempfer 1651–1716: a biography, trans. Peter Hogg, London, The British Library, 1996, pp. vii, 158, illus., £35.00, $70.00 (0-7123-4503-5).

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