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Volume 52 - Issue 2 - April 2008

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A Doctor in the House: The Architecture of Home-offices for Physicians in Toronto, 1885–1930
Annmarie Adams, Stacie Burke
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17 May 2012, pp. 163-194
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“More Subtle than the Electric Aura”: Georgian Medical Electricity, the Spirit of Animation and the Development of Erasmus Darwin's Psychophysiology
Paul Elliott
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17 May 2012, pp. 195-220
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Angina Pectoris and the Arnolds: Emotions and Heart Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Fay Bound Alberti
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17 May 2012, pp. 221-236
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A Corresponding Community: Dr Agnes Bennett and her Friends from the Edinburgh Medical College for Women of the 1890s
Barbara Brookes
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17 May 2012, pp. 237-256
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Dr Smellie’s Prescriptions for Pregnant Women
Robert Woods
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17 May 2012, pp. 257-276
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Harold J Cook, Matters of exchange: commerce, medicine, and science in the Dutch golden age, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 562, illus., £25.00, $35.00 (hardback 978-0-300-11796-7).
Mary Lindemann
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17 May 2012, pp. 277-278
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Joan Thirsk, Food in early modern England: phases, fads, fashions, 1500–1760, London and New York, Hambledon Continuum Press, 2007, pp. xx, 396, £37.99, $65.00 (hardback 978-1-85285-538-3).
Alisha Rankin
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17 May 2012, pp. 278-279
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Leonard Smith, Lunatic hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, New York and London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xvi, 288, illus., £70.00, $120.00 (hardback 978-0-415-37516-0).
Robert A Houston
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17 May 2012, pp. 279-280
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W F Bynum and Helen Bynum (eds), Dictionary of medical biography, 5 vols, Westport, CT, and London, Greenwood Press, 2007, total pp. 1667, illus., £425.00, $749.95 (hardback set 0-313-32877-3).
Anne Digby
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17 May 2012, pp. 280-281
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Tim Jeal, Stanley: the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer, London, Faber and Faber, 2007, pp. xix, 570, illus., £25.00 (hardback 978-0-571-22102-8).
Christopher Lawrence
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17 May 2012, pp. 281-283
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Clare Pettitt, Dr Livingstone, I presume? Missionaries, journalists, explorers and empire, London, Profile Books, 2007, pp. x, 244, illus., £15.99 (hardback 978-1-86197-728-1).
Christopher Lawrence
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17 May 2012, pp. 283-284
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Benoît Gaumer, L'organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le protectorat français (1881–1956): un bilan ambigu et contrasté, Quebec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2006, pp. xxiv, 276, $40.00 (paperback 978-2-7637-8474-8).
Nancy Gallagher
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17 May 2012, pp. 284-285
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Myron Echenberg, Plague ports: the global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894–1901, New York University Press, 2007, pp. xvi, 347, $48.00 (hardback 978-0-8147-2232-9).
Sally Sheard
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17 May 2012, pp. 285-286
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Alison Bashford (ed.), Medicine at the border: disease, globalization and security, 1950 to the present, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv, 271, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-50706-7).
Pratik Chakrabarti
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17 May 2012, pp. 286-287
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James Colgrove, State of immunity: the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America, Berkeley, University of California Press, and New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006, pp. xiii, 332, illus., £29.00, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-520-24749-3).
Stuart Blume
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17 May 2012, pp. 287-288
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Toine Pieters, Interferon: the science and selling of a miracle drug, Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp. xvi, 264, illus., £90.00, $155.00 (hardback 0-415-34246-5). Also available as a Kindle e-book through Amazon Digital Services, $75.60 (including free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet; http://www.amazon.com/Interferon-Science-Selling-Technology-Medicine/dp/B000OI15WA/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1//s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Toine%20Pieters).
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
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17 May 2012, pp. 288-289
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Anne Borsay and Sara Knight (eds), Medical records for the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1890–1948: an annotated guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 416, illus., £60.00 (hardback 978-0-708-32047-1).
Keir Waddington
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17 May 2012, pp. 290-291
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Steven Thompson, Unemployment, poverty and health in interwar South Wales, Studies in Welsh History, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. xvii, 296, £45.00 (hardback 978-0-7083-2042-6).
David Hirst
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17 May 2012, pp. 291-292
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Louise Foxcroft, The making of addiction: the ‘use and abuse’ of opium in nineteenth-century Britain, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvii, 199, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5633-3).
Virginia Berridge
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17 May 2012, pp. 292-293
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Ian Burney, Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination, Encounters, Cultural Histories Series, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. viii, 193, £35.00, $59.95 (hardback 978-0-7190-7376-2).
Tony Ward
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17 May 2012, pp. 293-294
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