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Volume 48 - 01 January 2004

Book Reviews

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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)

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

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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