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Volume 48 - 01 January 2004

Book Reviews

Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scotland's health 1919–1948, Studies in the History of Medicine, vol. 2Oxford and Bern, Peter Lang, 2002, pp. 506, £42.00, €64.60 US$60.95 (paperback 3-906768-34-1)

Edward Davies, The North Wales quarry hospitals and the health and welfare of the quarrymen, Gwynedd Archives Service, Gwynedd Council, 2003, pp. vii, 311, illus. (hardback 0-901337-83-8).

Karen Jochelson, The colour of disease: syphilis and racism in South Africa, 1880–1950, St Antony's Series, Basingstoke, Palgrave in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 2001, pp. xii, 248, £55.00 (hardback 0-333-74044-0).

Julie Peakman, Mighty lewd books: the development of pornography in eighteenth-century England, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. xii, 263, illus., £25.00 (hardback 1-4039-1500-8)

The Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835

June 1835

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Jonathan Oberlander, The political life of Medicare, University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. xi, 262, £13.00, US$18.00 (paperback 0-226-61596-0).

Jane Kromm, The art of frenzy: public madness in the visual culture of Europe, 1500–1850, London and New York, Continuum, 2002, pp. xv, 283, £70.00 (hardback 0-8264-5641-3).

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John Mohan, Planning, markets and hospitals, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xii, 275, £19.99 (paperback 0-415-19607-8).

Jane Buckingham, Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, pp. xi, 236, £47.50 (hardback 0-333-92622-6).

Allen B Weisse, Heart to heart: the twentieth-century battle against cardiac disease. An oral history, New Brunswick and London, Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. xvii, 415, illus., US$35.00 (hardback 0-8135-3157-8).

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Thomas Scharping, Birth control in China, 1949–2000: population policy and demographic development, London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. xvi, 406, £65.00 (hardback 0-7007-1154-6).

David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane, Medicine moves to the mall, Center Books on Space, Place and Time, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. xiii, 198, illus., £29.50 (hardback 0-8018-7064-X).

Steven King, A Fylde country practice: medicine and society in Lancashire, c. 1760–1840, Lancaster, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 2001, pp. xiv, 110, £10.95 (paperback 1-86220-117-X).

Dylan Evans, Placebo: the belief effect, London, HarperCollins, 2003, pp. xvi, 224, £16.99 (hardback (0-00-712612-3).

Mark Jackson (ed.), Infanticide: historical perspectives on child murder and concealment, 1550–2000, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, pp. xiii, 292, illus. £47.50 (hardback 0-7546-0318-0).

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MDH volume 48 supplement 23 Front matter

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Deborah Hayden, Pox: genius, madness, and the mystery of syphilis, New York, Basic Books, 2003, pp. xx, 379, illus., £20.00, US$27.50 (hardback 0-465-02881-0).

Anne Borsay (ed.), Medicine in Wales, c. 1800–2000: public service or public commodity?, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003, pp. x, 253, £40.00 (hardback 0-7083-1824-X).

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