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Volume 47 - 2003

Book Reviews

Maureen K Lux, Medicine that walks: disease, medicine, and Canadian plains native people, 1880–1940, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. xii, 300, illus., £35.00, US$50.00 (hardback 0-8020-4728-9), £12.00, US$22.95 (paperback 0-8020-8295-5).

Roberta McGrath, Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. xi, 195, illus., £16.99 (paperback 0-7190-4168-6).

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Henry L Minton, Departingfrom deviance: a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America, University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. xi, 344, US$65.00 (hardback 0-226-53043-4), US$20.00 (paperback 0-226-53044-2).

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Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, No place like home: a history of nursing and home care in the United States, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 293, illus., £31.00 (hardback 0-8018-6598-0).

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Reconstructing History - Owsei Temkin, “On second thought” and other essays in the history of medicine and science, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. x, 272, £29.00 (hardback 0-8018-6774-6).

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Roy Porter, Bodies politic: disease, death and doctors in Britain 1650–1900, London, Reaktion Books, 2001, pp. 328, 137 illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-8014-3953-1).

Michael Worboys, Spreading germs: disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865–1900, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xvi, 327, illus., £37.50, US$59.95 (hardback 0-521-773024).

Klasien Horstman, Public bodies, private lives: the historical construction of life insurance, health risks, and citizenship in the Netherlands 1880–1920, transl. Ton Brouwers, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2001, pp. 211, €27.00 (paperback 90-5235-156-2).

Kathryn A Neeley, Mary Somerville: science, illumination, and the female mind, Cambridge Science Biographies, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 263, £40.00, US$64.95 (hardback 0-521-62299-9), £14.95, US$22.95 (paperback 0-521-62672-2).

Joan Lane, A social history of medicine: health, healing and disease in England, 1750–1950, London and New York, Routledge, 2001, pp. ix, 233, illus., £16.99 (paperback 0-415-20038-5).

Kirk Jeffrey, Machines in our hearts: the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xiii, 370, illus., £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-6579-4)

Ilana Löwy and John Krige (eds), Images of disease: science, public policy and health in post-war Europe, Luxembourg, European Commission, 2001, pp. 377, €18.50 (paperback 92-894-1146-5).

Stanley W Jackson, Care of the psyche: a history of psychological healing, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 504, £30.00 (hardback 0-300-07671-1).

Mary Lynn Stewart, For health and beauty: physical culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xxi, 274, illus., £29.50 (hardback 0-801806483-6).

Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel (eds), Formative years: children's health in the United States 1880–2000, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 304, £42.50, US$60.00 (hardback 0-472-11268-6).

Barbara Clow, Negotiating disease: power and cancer care, 1900–1950, Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society Series, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, pp. xviii, 237, £18.95 (paperback 0-7735-2211-5).

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-century England, Medicine and Society Series, No. 11, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2001, pp. xxii, 364, illus., £24.95, US$35.00 (hardback 0-520-23151-1).

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