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Volume 47 - 2003

Book Reviews

Stephen Lock, John M Last and George Dunea (eds), The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 891, illus., £39.50 (hardback 0-19-262950-6).

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct unbecoming a woman: medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. xi, 292, £9.99 (paperback 0-19-513928-3).

Christian Warren, Brush with death: a social history of lead poisoning, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. xiv, 362, illus., £35.00 (hardback 0-8018-6289-2).

Terrie M Romano, Making medicine scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. xi, 225, £29.50 (hardback 0-8018-6897-1).

Kenneth Collins, Be well! Jewish health and welfare in Glasgow, 1860–1914, East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 194, illus., £12.99, US$19.95 (paperback 1-86232-129-9).

Andrew Berry (ed.), Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, London and New York, Verso, 2002, pp. xvii, 430, £19.00, US$27.00 (hardback 1-85984-652-1).

Alphonse Daudet, In the land of pain, ed. and transl. Julian Barnes, London, Jonathan Cape, 2002, pp. xv, 87, £10.00 (hardback 0-224-06267-0).

G Chamberlain, Victor Bonney: the gynaecological surgeon of the twentieth century, Carnforth, Parthenon Publishing, 2000, pp. xi, 140, illus., £19.95, US$29.95 (1-85070-712-X).

John M Efron, Medicine and the German Jews: a history, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. viii, 343, illus., £27.50 (hardback 0-300-08377-7).

Paul Wood (ed.), The Scottish Enlightenment: essays in reinterpretation, Rochester Studies in Philosophy, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, Suffolk, University of Rochester Press, 2000, pp. xi, 399, £50.00 (hardback 1-58046-065-8).

Vincent Barras and Micheline Louis-Courvoisier (eds), La Médecine des lumières: tout autour de Tissot, Bibliothèque d'Histoire des Sciences, Geneva, Georg, 2001, pp. x, 358, SFr 50.00 (paperback 2-8257-0704-X).

Joan Druett, Rough medicine: surgeons at sea in the age of sail, New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. x, 270, £16.99 (hardback 0-415-92451-0).

Geoffrey Davenport, Ian McDonald and Caroline Moss-Gibbons (eds), The Royal College of Physicians and its collections: an illustrated history, London, Royal College of Physicians, 2001, pp. 168, illus., UK £38.00, Overseas £45.00 (hardback 0-907-383-831).

Philip D Curtin, Migration and mortality in Africa and the Atlantic world, 1700–1900, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001, pp. 360, £59.50 (hardback 0-86078-833-4).

Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: poverty, race, and public health in the United States, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. xi, 196, £28.50 (hardback 0-8018-6637-5).

Ian Maclean, Logic, signs and nature in the Renaissance: the case of learned medicine, Ideas in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 407, illus., £45.00 (hardback 0-521-80648-8).

Jurgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann (eds), Religious confessions and the sciences in the sixteenth century, Studies in European Judaism, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2001, pp. xiv, 161, £46.00, US$54.00 (hardback 90-04-12045-9).

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