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Volume 40 - 1996

Book Reviews

Richard H Ellis (ed.), The case books of Dr John Snow, Medical History, Supplement No. 14, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1994, pp. lvii, 633, £25.00, $38.00 (0-85484-061-3).

Hugo Kupferschmidt, Die Epidemiologie der Pest. Der Konzeptwandel in der Erforschung der Infektionsketten seit der Entdeckung des Pesterregers im Jahre 1894, Gesnerus Supplement No. 43, Aarau, Verlag Sauerlander, 1993, pp. xiv, 222, SwFr 36.00 (3-7941-3722-1).

Robert Rhodes James, Henry Wellcome, London, John Curtis/Hodder & Stoughton, 1994, pp. xix, 422, illus., £25.00 (0-340-60617-7).

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The Infectious Diseases or ‘Fevers’ of Childhood

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Alan M Kraut, Silent travelers: germs, genes, and the “immigrant menace”, New York, BasicBooks, 1994 (distributed by HarperCollins in the UK), pp. xiv, 369, illus., £19.95 (hardback 0-465-07823-0), £13.00 (paperback 0-8018-5096-7).

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Surgery at the Children's Hospitals

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Roy Porter and Mikuľás Teich (eds), Drugs and narcotics in history, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xi, 227, £30.00 (0-521-43163).

Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford (eds), Legal medicine in history, Cambridge History of Medicine series, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xi, 364, £40.00 $59.95 (0-521-39514-3).

Charles F Clark, AIDS and the arrows of pestilence, Golden, Colorado, Fulcrum Publishing, 1994, pp. xvii, 171, illus., $23.95 (1-55591-146-3).

David Rosner (ed.), Hives of sickness: public health and epidemics in New York City, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press for the Museum of the City of New York, 1995, pp. vii, 223, illus., $35.00 (0-8135-2158-0).

William Muraskin, The war against hepatitis B: a history of the International Task Force on Hepatitis B Immunization, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, pp. vi, 248, $29.95 (0-8122-3267-4).

R D Gidney and W P J Millar, Professional gentlemen: the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario, Ontario Historical Studies series, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xv, 505, £39.00, $60.00 (hardback 0-8020-0619-1), £16.00, $24.00 (paperback 0-8020-7580-0).

R S Downie (ed.), The healing arts: an Oxford illustrated anthology, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 334, illus., £18.99 (0-19-262319-2).

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Surgery at the Children's Hospitals (cont.)

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Kurt Danziger, Constructing the subject: Historical origins of psychological research, Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1994 (hardback edition first published 1990), £12.95, $16.95 (paperback 0-521-46785-3).

Peter G Hesse and Joachim S Hohmann, Friedrich Schaudinn (1871–1906). Sein Leben und Wirken als Mikrobiologe. Eine Biographie, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 252, illus., DM 31.00 (3-631-48140-3).

Mark S Micale, Approaching hysteria: Disease and its interpretations, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. xii, 327, £24.95, $29.95 (0-691-03717-5).

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Education and Research at the Paediatric Hospitals

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Suzanne Poirier, Chicago's war on syphilis, 1937–40: the times, the Trib, and the clap doctor, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1995, pp. x, 271, illus., $42.50 (0-252-02147-9).

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