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Alter Joseph S. (ed.), Asian medicine and globalization, Encounters with Asia, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, pp. vi, 189, £29.50, US$45.00 (hardback 0-8122-3866-4).
Borck Cornelius, Hirnströme: eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie, Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2005, pp. 382, illus., €34.00, SFr 60.00 (paperback 3-89244-893-0).
Briggs Asa, A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London, vol. 4, 1948–1983, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 486, illus., £60.00 (hardback 0-19-925334-x).
Bondio Mariacaria Gadebusch, Medizinische Ästhetik. Kosmetik und plastische Chirurgie zwischen Antike und früher Neuzeit, Humanistiosche Bibliothek, Munich, Wilhelm Fink, 2005, pp. 238, €34.00 (paperback 3-7705-4101-4).
Christakos George, Olea Ricardo A, Serre Marc L, Yu Hwa-Lung, Wang Lin-Lin, Interdisciplinary public health reasoning and epidemic modelling: the case of black death, Berlin and New York, Springer, 2005, pp. xv, 319, £77.00, €99.95, US$129.00 (hardback 3-540-25794-2).
Cockayne E E, Stow N J. (eds), Stutter's casebook: a junior hospital doctor, 1839–1841, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2005, pp. xlv, 178, illus., £35.00, $60.00 (hardback 184383-1139).
Crumplin M K H, Starling P, A surgical artist at war: the paintings and sketches of Sir Charles Bell 1809–1815, Edinburgh, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2005, pp. vii, 96, illus., £14.99 plus £3.00 p&p from AMS Museum, Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale, Aldershot, GU12 5RQ (paperback 095462131X).
Daly Jeanne, Evidence-based medicine and the search for a science of clinical care, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2005, pp. xv, 275, £41.95, $65.00 (hardback 0-520-24316-1).
Dingwall Helen M, ‘A famous and flourishing society’: the history of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1505–2005, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 336, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-7486-1567-9).
Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica, transl. Beck Lily Y, Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, Band 38, Hildesheim, George Olms, 2005, pp. xxviii, 540, €78.00 (paperback 3-487-12881-0).
Duffin Jacalyn, Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history, The 2002 Joanne Goodman Lectures, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. xvii, 234, illus., £29.95, $27.50 (paperback 0-8020-3805-0).
Gradmann Christoph, Krankheit im Labor. Robert Koch und die medizinische Bakteriologie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2005, pp. 376, €38.00 (paperback 3-89244-922-8).
Grell Ole Peter, Cunningham Andrew, Roeck Bernd. (eds), Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century southern Europe, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. viii, 326, illus., £49.50 (hardback 0-7546-5156-8).
Henderson John, A life of Ernest Starling, American Physiological Society People and Ideas Series, Oxford, published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xvi, 227, £35.99 (hardback 0-19-517780-0).
Jorland Gérald, Opinel Annick, Weisz George. (eds), Body counts: medical quantification in historical and sociological perspectives/la Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques, Montreal and London, published for Fondation Merieux by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, pp. x, 417, £64.00 (hardback 0-7735-2829-6).
Kistemaker R E, Kopaneva N P, Meijers D J, Vilinbakhov G V. (eds), The paper museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg c. 1725–1760: introduction and interpretation, History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, vol. 6, Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005, pp. xii, 348, illus. (hardback and DVD 90-6984-426-5).
Lawrence Christopher, Rockefeller money, the laboratory, and medicine in Edinburgh 1919–1930: new science in an old country, University of Rochester Press, 2005, pp. ix, 373, £60.00, $85.00 (hardback 1-58046-195-6).
Lindner Ulrike, Gesundheitspolitik in der Nachkriegszeit: Groβbritannien und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Vergleich, Publications of the German Historical Institute London, vol. 57, Munich, R Oldenbourg Verlag, 2004, pp. 581, €64.80 (hardback 3-486-20014-3).
Lowry Thomas P, Venereal disease and the Lewis and Clark expedition, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pp. xx, 117, illus., £16.95 (hardback 0803229593).
Mann Robert W, Hunt David R, Photographic regional atlas of bone disease: a guide to pathologic and normal variation in the human skeleton, 2nd ed., Springfield, ILL, Charles C Thomas Publisher, 2005, pp. xiv, 297, illus. 234 (hardback 0-398-07539-5).
Nightingale Florence, Over ziekenverpleging: wat men, om de herstelling te bevorderen, te doen en te vermijden heeft, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2005, pp. 231, €27.50 (papeerback 90-5235-178-3).
Oshinsky David M, Polio: an American story: the crusade that mobilized the nation against the 20th century's most feared disease, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. viii, 342, illus., $30.00 (hardback 0-19-515294-8).
O'Sullivan John F, Belfast City Hospital: a photographic history, Donaghadee, Ballyhay Books, 2003, pp. 88, illus., £8.99 (paperback 1-900935-32-5).
O'Toole Alan, With the poor people of the earth: a biography of doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield & Buenos Aires, London, KSL BM Hurricane, 2005, pp. 32, £3.00 (paperback 1-873605-78-1). Orders to Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London WC1N 3XX, UK; e-mail: info@katesharpleylibrary.net
di Palo Lucia, Le recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort di François Xavier Bichat: un lessico fisiologico, Bari, Cacucci Editore, 2005, pp. 224, illus., €25.00 (paperback and DVD 88-8422-398-9).
Pieters Toine, 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., £80.00 (hardback 0-415-34246-5).
Quak L A, G A van Rijnberk (1875–1953): gerant van de Nederlandse geneeskunde in het Interbellum, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2005, pp. 215, illus., €27.50 (paperback 90-5235-177-5).
Richardson Robert, Morris Hilary S, History of medicine: with commentaries, Shrewsbury, Quiller Press, 2005, pp. viii, 278, illus., £16.95 (paperback 1-904057-76-4).
Rutten A M G, Magische kruiden in de Antilliaanse folklore: etnofarmacologie van het Caribisch gebied, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2003, pp. 188, illus., €27.00 (paperback 90-5235-166-X).
Rutten A M G, Heksen, heiligen en hallucinogenen: medische toverkunsten, Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2005, pp. 152, illus., €19.50 (paperback 90-5235-176-7).
Sapontzis Steve F. (ed.), Food for thought: the debate over eating meat, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2004, pp. 382, $20.00 (paperback 1-59102-118-9).
Schulkin Jay, Curt Richter: a life in the laboratory, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xvii, 189, illus., £33.50 (hardback 0-8018-8073-4).
Schwarzmann-Schafhauser Doris, Die Herausbildung von disziplin und berufsstand in bund und kaiserreich (1815–1914), Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 53, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2004, pp. 400, illus., €68.00 (hardback 3-515-08500-9).
Scurlock JoAnn, Andersen Burton R. (translators and commentators), Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 879, US$150.00 (hardback 0-252-02956-9).
Smith David F, Diack H Lesley, Pennington T Hugh, Russell Elizabeth M, Food poisoning, policy and politics: corned beef and typhoid in Britian in the 1960's, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2005, pp. xiv, 334, illus., £50.00, $90.00 (hardback 1-84383-138-4).
Soergel Philip M. (ed.), Sexuality and culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, vol. 2, New York, AMS Press, 2005, pp. xv, 287, US$89.50 (ISSN 0081-8224, hardback 0-404-64552-6).
Stempsey William E. (ed.) Elisha Bartlett's philosophy of medicine, Philosophy and Medicine, vol. 83, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005, pp. x, 245, €99.00, £69.00, sFr 167.50, $129.00 (hardback 1-4020-3041-X).
Stern Alexandra Minna, Eugenic nation: faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2005, pp. xiv, 347 illus., £38.95, US$60.00 (hardback 0-520-24443-5); £15.95, US$24.95 (paperback 0-520-24444-3).
Simone Moses, Alt und krank: Ältere patienten in der medizinischen klinik der Universität Tübingen zur Zeit der entstehung der geriatrie, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beihefte 24, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2005, pp. 279, illus., €36.00 (paperback 3-515-08654-4).
Tracy Sarah W, Alcoholism in America: from reconstruction to prohibition, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 357, $48.00, £32.00 (hardback 0-8018-8119-6).
de Villanova Arnaldi, Opera medica omnia, vol. XVII: Translatio libri Albuzale de medicinis simplicibus, ed. Labarta A, Gázquez J Martínez, McVaugh M R, Jacquart D, Cifuentes L, Universitat de Barcelona, 2004, pp. 625, €55.00 (paperback 84-9779-240-8).
Wallis Faith, Miller Pamela. (eds), 75 books from the Osler Library, Montreal, Osler Library, McGill University, 2004, pp. ix, 182, illus., $40.00 (available for sale on the link 75 Books from the Osler or Osler Library Shop on http://www.health.library.mcgill.ca/osler/), (Paperback 07717-0625-1).
Willi-Hangartner Regula, Dolivo Adrien. (eds), Botanique et pharmacie: actes de la réunion de la Société Suisse d'histoire de la pharmacie, Lausanne, 28 et 29 septembre 2002. Botanik und Pharmazie: Akten der Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Lausanne, 28./29. September 2002, Publications de la Société Suisse d'histoire de la pharmacie, vol. 27, Bern-Liebefeld, SGGP/SSHP, 2004, pp. 96, illus., CHF28.00 (paperback 3-9522758-2-4).
Yanacopoulo Andrée, Découverte de la sclérose en plaques: la raison nosographique, Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de Montreal, 1997, pp. 197, illus. (paperback 2-7606-1707-6).