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Volume 50 - 01 October 2006

Book Reviews

Sander L Gilman and Zhou Xun (eds), Smoke: a global history of smoking, London, Reaktion Books, 2004, pp. 408, illus., £29.00 (hardback 1-86189-200-4).

Martin Wallen, City of health, fields of disease: revolutions in the poetry, medicine, and philosophy of romanticism, The Nineteenth Century Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. x, 202, £40.00 (hardback 0-7546-3542-2).

Maaike van der Lugt, Le ver, le démon et la vierge: les théories médiévales de la génération extraordinaire: une étude sur les rapports entre théologie, philosophie naturelle et médecine, Collection L'Âne d'or, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2004, pp. xiv, 621, €37 (paperback 2-251-42018-5).

Stuart J Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: a comparative study, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2005, pp. xii, 195, £32.95 (hardback 0-292-707617-0).

Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the display of authority in early modern France, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. xiv, 257, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-7546-3619-4).

Florian Steger and Kay Peter Jankrift (eds), Gesundheit – Krankheit. Kulturtransfer medizinischen Wissens von der Spätantike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit, Cologne, Böhlau Verlag, 2004, pp. vi, 270, €34.90 (hardback 3-412-13803-7).

Douglas A Wissing, Pioneer in Tibet: the life and perils of Dr Albert Shelton, New York and Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xvii, 334, illus., $29.95 (1-4039-6328-2).

Ole J Benedictow, The Black Death 1346–1353: the complete history, Woodbridge and Rochester, Boydell Press, 2004, pp. xvi, 433, illus., £30.00 (hardback 0-85115-943-5).

Christine Hillam (ed.), Dental practice in Europe at the end of the 18th century, Clio Medica 72, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2003, pp. 518, €135.00, US$150.00 (hardback 90-420-1268-4); €55.00, US$61.00 (paperback 90-420-1258-7).

Christopher E Forth, The Dreyfus affair and the crisis of French manhood, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 300, £33.50 (hardback 0-8018-7433-5).

Philip J van der Eijk (ed.), Hippocrates in context: papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27–31 August 2002, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, pp. xvi, 521, €149.00, US$199.00 (hardback 90-04-14430-7).

Laura Vivanco, Death in fifteenth-century Castile: ideologies of the elites, Colección Támesis, Serie A, Monografías, 205 Woodbridge, Tamesis Books, 2004, pp. vii, 211, £45.00, US$75.00 (hardback 1-85566-100-4).

Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd-Wilson (eds), Reading the early modern passions: essays in the cultural history of emotion, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, pp. xv, 384, illus., (paperback 0-8122-1872-8).

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica, transl. Lily Y Beck, introduction by John Scarborough, Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, Band 38, Hildesheim, Olms-Weidmann, 2005, pp. xxviii, 540, €78.00, US$90.00 (paperback 3-487-12881-0).

Susan Broomhall, Women's medical work in early modern France, Gender in History, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. viii, 288, 49.99 (hardback 0-7190-6286-1)

Corinna Treitel, A science for the soul: occultism and the genesis of the German Modern, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. x, 366, illus., £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-7812-8).

Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy (eds and transl.), Questions and answers for physicians: a medieval Arabic study manual by ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Sulami, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, vol. 3, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2004, pp. xii, 250, €59.00, US$74.00 (hardback 90-04-13671-1).

Bruce T Moran, Distilling knowledge: alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution, New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 210, $24.95, £16.95 (hardback 0-674-01495-2).

Victoria Thompson, Death and dying in later Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon Studies 4, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2004, pp. x, 236, £50.00, $85.00 (hardback 1-84383-070-1).

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