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Louise Hill Curth, English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine: 1550–1700, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 283, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-6928-4).
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Carole Rawcliffe, Leprosy in medieval England, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 421, illus., £60.00, $105.00 (hardback 1-184383 2739).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 150-151
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Cynthia A Connolly, Saving sickly children: the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909–1970, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 182, illus., £27.50, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-8135-4267-6).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 610-611
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Peter Jones, A surgical revolution: surgery in Scotland 1837–1901, Edinburgh, John Donald, 2007, pp. 231, £20.00 (paperback 10-0-85976-684-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 313-314
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Sandra Cavallo, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: identities, families and masculinities, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xii, 281, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-7662-6).
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- 17 May 2012, p. 452
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Julie Anderson, Francis Neary and John V Pickstone in collaboration with James Raftery, Surgeons, manufacturers and patients: a transatlantic history of total hip replacement, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. xiv, 222, illus., £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-55314-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 314-315
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Alice Boardman Smuts with the assistance of Robert W Smuts, R Malcolm Smuts, Barbara B Smuts, and P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Science in the service of children, 1893–1935, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xiv, 381, £20.00, $32.00 (paperback 978-0-300-14435-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 611-612
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Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the earth, rooted in the sky: Hildegard of Bingen and premodern medicine, Studies in Medieval History and Culture, New York and London, Routledge, 2006, pp. xviii, 326, illus., £55.00, $75.00 (hardback 0-415-97634-0; 978-0-415-97634-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 152-153
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Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book V: The organs of nutrition and generation, transl. William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman, Novato, CA, Norman Publishing, 2007, pp. xix, 257, illus. $275,00 (hardback 978-0-930405-88-5).
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- 17 May 2012, p. 153
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Danielle Jacquart, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (eds), La scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi, Florence, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007, pp. xiv, 592, €68.00 (paperback 978-88-8450-232-2).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 453-454
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Wendy Moore, The knife man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery, London, Bantam Press, 2005, pp. xiii, 482, illus., £18.99 (hardback 0-593-05209-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 315-317
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Susan P Mattern, Galen and the rhetoric of healing, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. x, 279, £36.50, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8835-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 612-613
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Alejandro García González (edición crítica y comentario), Alphita, Edizione Nazionale ‘La Scuola Medica Salernitana', 2, Florence, SISMEL—Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007, pp. xii, 608, €68.00 (paperback 978-88-8450-262-9). - Isabelle Mandrin, Griechische und griechisch vermittelte Elemente in der Synonymenliste Alphita. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der medizinischen Fachterminologie im lateinischen Mittelalter, Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, Band 44, Bern, Peter Lang, 2008, pp. xvi, 256, £35.30 (paperback 978-3-03911-463-4).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 613-616
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Anne Stiles (ed.), Neurology and literature, 1860–1920, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 229, £45.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52094-3).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 317-318
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Rosemary Elliot, Women and smoking since 1890, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 29, London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xiii, 225, illus., £65.00 (hardback 978-0-415-34059-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 153-154
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Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide (eds), Health and healing from the medieval garden, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 256, illus., £50.00, $95.00 (hardback 978-1-84383-363-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 454-455
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Girolamo Fracastoro, De sympathia et antipathia rerum, Liber I: edizione critica, traduzione e commento Concetta Pennuto, Studi e Testi del Rinascimento Europeo, 31, Rome, Edizione di Storia e Letteratura, 2008, pp. cii, 358, €58.00 (paperback 978-88-8498-383-1). - Concetta Pennuto, Simpatia, fantasia e contagio: il pensiero medico e il pensiero filosofico di Girolamo Fracastoro, Centuria, 5, Rome, Edizioni di storia e Letteratura, 2008, pp. xx, 526, €55.00 (paperback 978-88-8498-384-8).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 616-618
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Katharine A Craik, Reading sensations in early modern England, Early Modern Literature in History, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. xi, 200, £45.00, $69.95 (hardback 978-1-4039-2192-5).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 154-156
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Daniel Lord Smail, On deep history and the brain, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 271, £12.95, 21.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25289-9), £9.95, $15.95 (paperback 978-0-520-25812-9).
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- 17 May 2012, pp. 318-319
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Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar, Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 7, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. x, 619, €169.00, $237.00 (hardback 978-90-04-16120-7).
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