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Volume 47 - 2003

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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).

Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American junkie: addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. x, 276, £31.00 (hardback 0-8018-6798-3).

Jock McCulloch, Asbestos blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa, African Issues series, Oxford, James Currey, and Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002, pp. xxvii, 223, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-85255-863-5), £12.95 (paperback 0-85255-862-7).

Mark S Micale and Paul Lerner (eds), Traumatic pasts: history, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870–1930, Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 316, £40.00, US$59.95 (hardback 0-521-58365-9).

Arthur M Silverstein, Paul Ehrlich's receptor immunology: the magnificent obsession, San Diego and London, Academic Press, 2002, pp. xix, 202, illus., US$75.00 (hardback 0-12-643765-3).

Judith Robinson, Noble conspirator: Florence S Mahoney and the rise of the National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, Francis Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 342, illus., $28.00 (hardback 0-96665051-4-X).

David Wright, Mental disability in Victorian England: the Earlswood Asylum, 1847–1901, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001, pp. xii, 244, £40.00 (hardback 0-19-924639-4).

David Healy, The creation of psychopharmacology, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 469, £27.50 (hardback 0-674-00619-4).

Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (eds), Historical and philosophical perspectives on biomedical ethics: from paternalism to autonomy?, Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, pp. xi, 159, £40.00 (hardback 0-7546-1529-4).

Dan Healey, Homosexual desire in revolutionary Russia: the regulation of sexual and gender dissent, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 392, illus., $40.00 (hardback 0-226-32233-5).

Allen Thiher, Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature, Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp. 354, £36.00, US$57.50 (0-472-11035-7).

Jennifer Stanton (ed.), Innovations in health and medicine: diffusion and resistance in the twentieth century, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xviii, 232, £55.00 (hardback 0-415-24385-8).

Robert Oliver, Making the modern medical school: the Wisconsin stories, Canton, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2002, pp. ix, 156, illus., US$24.95 (hardback 0-88135-262-0).

Arnold I Davidson, The emergence of sexuality: historical epistemology and the formation of concepts, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 254, illus., £27.50 (hardback 0-674-00459-0).

J S Cameron, A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 353, illus, £45.00 (hardback 0-19-851547-2).

Mel Greaves, Cancer: the evolutionary legacy, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xi, 276, illus., £19.99 (hardback 0-19-262835).

N D A Kemp, ‘Merciful release’: the history of the British euthanasia movement, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. vii, 242, £42.50 (hardback 0-7190-6123-7), £14.99 (paperback 0-7190-6124-5).

Farokh Erach Udwadia, Man and medicine: a history, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xvi, 496, illus., £31.50 (hardback 0-19-565457-9)

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