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Ian Dowbiggin, A merciful end: the euthanasia movement in modern America, New York, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. xix, 250, $28.00 (hardback 0-19-515443-6).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 523-524
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Michael J Lepore, Life of the clinician, University of Rochester Press, 2002, pp. xiii, 459, £40.00, US$45.00 (hardback 1-58046-116-6).
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- 26 July 2012, p. 273
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Thomas Söderqvist, Science as autobiography: the troubled life of Niels Jerne, translated by David Mel Paul New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2003, pp. xxvi, 359, illus., £27.50 (hardback 0-300-09441-8).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 388-389
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Leslie Klenerman (ed.), The evolution of orthopaedic surgery, London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2002, pp. x, 246, illus. £20.00 (paperback 1-85315-469-5).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 132-133
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Martin Dinges (ed.), Patients in the history of homoeopathy, Network Series 5, Sheffield, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications, 2002, pp. xiii, 434, UK £39.95, Europe £43.33, USA £52.10, elsewhere £47.82 (hardback 0-9536522-4-6).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 524-526
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Shelley McKellar, Surgical limits: the life of Gordon Murray, University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. x, 270, illus., £28.00, US$45.00 (hardback 0-8020-3739-9).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 389-390
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Steve Sturdy (ed.), Medicine, health and the public sphere in Britain, 1600–2000, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xiii, 290, £60.00 (hardback 0-415-27906-2).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 133-134
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Thomas W Laqueur, Solitary sex: a cultural history of masturbation, New York, Zone Books, 2003, pp. 501, illus., £22.50 (hardback 1-890951-32-3).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 274-275
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Howard Phillips and David Killingray (eds), The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19: new perspectives, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2003, pp. xxii, 357, £65.00 (hardback 0-415-23445-X).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 526-527
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Anne L McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación (eds), The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe, New York and Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, pp. xiv, 285, £42.50 (hardback 0-312-24001-5).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 275-276
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Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800–2000, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xiii, 253, £60.00 (hardback 0-415-23122-1)
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 134-136
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Rina Knoeff, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738): Calvinist chemist and physician, History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, vol. 3Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002, pp. xvi, 237, €35.00 (hardback 90-6984-343-0).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 390-391
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Andreas Mettenleiter, Adam Christian Thebesius (1686–1732) und die Entdeckung der Vasa Cordis Minima: Biographie, Textedition, medizinhistorische Würdigung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 47, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2001, pp. 580, illus. €96.00 (hardback 3-515-07917-3).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 391-392
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Thomas Schlich, Surgery, science and industry: a revolution in fracture care, 1950s–1990s, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. xi, 349, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-333-99305-5).
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Anna Lundberg, Care and coercion: medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1785–1903, Report no. 14 from the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, 1999, pp. 309 (91-7191-675-X).
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Julius Rocca, Galen on the brain: anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 26, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. xxiii, 313, illus., €85.00, US$99.00 (hardback 90-04-12512-4).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 276-277
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Samuel W Bloom, The word as scalpel: a history of medical sociology, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. vii, 348, £47.50 (hardback 0-19-507232-4), £19.95 (paperback 0-19-514929-7).
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 137-138
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Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon, ‘Madness’ in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum, UQP Australian Studies, St Lucia, QLD, University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network and Curtin University of Technology, 2003, pp. xiv, 269, Australian $35.00 (paperback 0-7022-3406-0).
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Malcolm Parsons, Yorkshire and the history of medicine, York, William Sessions, 2002, pp. viii, 111, illus., £6.50 (+£1.20 p&p UK; +£2.00 p&p overseas), (paperback 1-85072-273-0). Orders to: William Sessions Ltd, Huntington Road, York Y031 9HS, UK.
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- 26 July 2012, pp. 392-393
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Galen, On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus), introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell, foreword by John Wilkins, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xxvi, 206, £40.00, US$55.00 (hardback 0-521-81242-9).
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