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Volume 50 - 01 October 2006

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Paul Julian Weindling, Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: from medical war crimes to informed consent, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xii, 482, £60.00 (hardback 1-4039-3911-X).

Vivian Nutton, Ancient medicine, Sciences of Antiquity, London and New York, Routledge, 2004, pp. xiv, 486, illus., £65 (hardback 0-415-08611-6).

Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio (eds), Twentieth century ethics of human subjects research: historical perspectives on values, practices and regulations, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2004, pp. 361, Euro 64.00 (paperback 3-515-08455-X).

Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely, Shell shock to PTSD: military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War, Maudsley Monographs, No. 47 Hove and New York, Psychology Press on behalf of the Maudsley, 2005, pp. xvii, 300, £24.95 (hardback 1-84169-580-7).

Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Heroic measures: Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy, Studies in Ancient Medicine vol. 30, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2004, pp. x, 229, €90.00, US$121.00 (hardback 90-04-13993-1).

David F Smith, H Lesley Diack, T Hugh Pennington and Elizabeth M Russell, Food poisoning, policy and politics: corned beef and typhoid in Britain in the 1960s, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2005, pp. xiv, 334, illus., £50.00, $90.00 (hardback 1-84383-138-4).

Reginald Passmore, Fellows of Edinburgh's College of Physicians during the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians, 2001, pp. viii, 132, illus., £10.00, (paperback 0-85405-057-4). Orders to: Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, Scotland.

Martha L Rose, The staff of Oedipus: transforming disability in ancient Greece, Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2003, pp. xiii, 154, illus., £26.00, US$42.50 (paperback 0-472-11339).

Barbara Bridgman Perkins, The medical delivery business: health reform, childbirth, and the economic order, New Brunswick, and London, Rutgers University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 253, £31.95 (hardback 0-8135-3328-7).

Joseph S Alter (ed.) Asian medicine and globalization, Encounters with Asia, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, pp. vi, 189, £29.50, US$45.00 (hardback 0-8122-3866-4).

Christopher Lawrence, Rockefeller money, the laboratory, and medicine in Edinburgh 1919–1930: new science in an old country, University of Rochester Press, 2005, pp. ix, 373, £60.00, $85.00 (hardback 1-58046-195-6).

J Lourdusamy, Science and national consciousness in Bengal 1870–1930, New Perspectives in South Asian History, no. 8, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 2004, pp. xii, 259, Rs 550.00 (hardback 81-250-2674-6).

Christoph Gradmann, Krankheit im Labor. Robert Koch und die medizinische Bakteriologie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2005, pp. 376, €38.00 (paperback 3-89244-922-8).

Gotthard Strohmaier, Hellas im Islam. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Ikonographie, Wissenschaft und Religionsgeschichte, Diskurse der Arabistik, 6, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, pp. viii, 258, €98.00 (hardback 3-447-04637-6).

David Clark, Neil Small, Michael Wright, Michelle Winslow and Nic Hughes, A little bit of heaven for the few? An oral history of the modern hospice movement in the United Kingdom, Lancaster, Observatory Publications, 2005, pp. viii, 239, £15.00, illus. (paperback 0-9544192-0-0).

Constance E Putnam, The science we have loved and taught: Dartmouth Medical School's first two centuries, Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 2004, pp. xxvi, 375, illus., $35.00 (hardback 1-58465-370-1).

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