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Volume 48 - 01 January 2004

Book Reviews

James C Riley, Rising life expectancy: a global history, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xii, 243, £30.00, US$49.95 (0-521-80245-8), £11.95, US$16.95 (paperback 0-521-00281-8).

Sumit Guha, Health and population in South Asia from earliest times to the present, London, Hurst, 2001, pp. vii, 178, £25.00 (hardback 1-85065578-2).

Maxime Schwartz, How the cows turned mad, transl. Edward Schneider, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2003, pp. viii, 238, £17.95 (hardback 0-520-23531-2).

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

February 1835

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Gerald N Grob, The deadly truth: a history of disease in America, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. x, 349, £23.00 (0-674-00881-2).

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

March 1835

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Susan D Jones, Valuing animals: veterinarians and their patients in modern America, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 213, illus., £33.50 (hardback 0-8018-7129-8).

Roy Porter, Madness: a brief history, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 241, illus., £7.99 (paperback 0-19-280267-4).

Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen (eds), Medicine man: the forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome, London, The British Museum Press, 2003, pp. 397, 500 colour and 50 black and white illus., £19.99 (paperback 0-7141-2794-9)

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

April 1835

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Paolo Palladino, Plants, patients and the historian: (re)membering in the age of genetic engineering, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. ix, 250, £47.50 (hardback 0-7190-6152-0).

Roy Porter (ed.), The Cambridge history of science. Vol. 4: Eighteenth-century science, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xxx, 912, £65.00, $95.00 (hardback 0-521-57243-6).

Paul Hackett, “A very remarkable sickness”: epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670–1846, Manitoba Studies in Native History 14, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2002, pp. xvii, 315, Can$55.00 (hardback 0-88755-174-2), Can$24.95 (paperback 0-88755-659-0).

Keir Waddington, Medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital 1123–1995, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2003, pp. xii, 464, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-85115-919-2).

Irina Sirotkina, Diagnosing literary genius: a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880–1930, Medicine and Culture series, Baltimore and London, John Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. ix, 269, £33.50 (hardback 0-8018-6782-7)

Andrea A Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France, Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 249, illus., £45.00, US$65.00 (hardback 0-521-80374-8).

Nikolai Krementsov, The cure: a story of cancer and politics from the annals of the cold war, University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 261, illus., £16.50, US$26.00 (hardback 0-226-45284-0).

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

May 1835

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Book Reviews

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

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The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

Book Reviews

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

Book Reviews

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835