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José Pardo Tomás, El médico en la palestra: Diego Mateo Zapata (1664–1745) y la ciencia moderna en España, Estudios de historia de la ciencia y de la técnica, no. 25, Valladolid, Junta de Castilla y León, 2004, pp. 456, €25.00 (hardback 84-9718-252-9).

Hilary Marland, Dangerous motherhood: insanity and childbirth in Victorian Britain, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xii, 303, illus., £50.00, US$69.95 (hardback 1-4039-2038-9).

Sharon Ruston, Shelley and vitality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association with Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2005, pp. xiii, 229, £45.00 (hardback 1-4039-1824-4).

Abigail Woods, A manufactured plague? The history of foot and mouth disease in Britain, London, Earthscan, 2004, pp. xvi, 208, illus., £19.99 (hardback 1-84407-080-8).

Christopher Booth, John Haygarth FRS: a physician of the Enlightenment (1740–1827), Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 254, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2005, pp. xv, 169, illus., $60.00 (hardback 0-87169-254-6).

Angela Montford, Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. xv, 302, illus., £57.50 (hardback 0-7546-3697-6).

George S Rousseau, Nervous acts: essays on literature, culture, and sensibility, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xii, 395, £17.99 (paperback 1-4039-3454-1).

Robert Richardson and Hilary S Morris, History of medicine: with commentaries, Shrewsbury, Quiller Press, 2005, pp. viii, 278, £16.95 (paperback 1-904057-76-4).

Charles Darwin, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex, edited and with an introduction by James Moore Adrian Desmond, London, Penguin Books, 2004, pp. lxvi, 791, illus. £9.99 (paperback 0-140-43631-6).

Pamela Hunter, Veterinary medicine: a guide to historical sources, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. ix, 611, £65.00 (hardback 0-7546-4053-1).

Vern L Bullough, Universities, medicine and science in the medieval west, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. xiii, 298, illus., £57.50 (hardback 0-86078-943-8).

John C Burnham, What is medical history?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005, pp. vii, 163, £45.00 (hardback 0-7456-3224-6), £17.99 (paperback 0-7456-3225-4).

Nady S Hakim and Vassilios E Papalois (eds), History of organ and cell transplantation, London, Imperial College Press, 2003, pp. xviii, 444, illus., £58.00 (hardback 1-86094-209-1).

Tom Atkinson, Napiers history of herbal healing, ancient and modern, Edinburgh, Luath Press, 2003, pp. x, 272, illus., £16.99 (hardback 1-84282-025-7).

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H J Klasen, History of burns, Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, No. 62, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2004, pp. 632, illus., €80.00, US$120.00 (hardback 90-5235-168-6).

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Joachim Ritter, Karlfried Fründer and Gottfried Gabriel (eds), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, band 12: W–Z, Basel, Schwabe, 2005, pp. 1555, SFr 368.00, €257.50 (hardback 3-7965-0703-4).

Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner (eds), Locating medical history: the stories and their meanings, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. x, 507, £32.00 (hardback 0-8018-7861-6).

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