(The inclusion of a title does not preclude the possibility of subsequent review. Items received, other than those assigned for review, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Wellcome Library.)
Arikha Noga, Passions and tempers: a history of the humours, New York, HarperCollins, 2007, pp. xxi, 376, illus., US$27.95, Canada $34.95 (hardback 978-0-06-073116-8).
Borsay Anne, Shapely Peter. (eds), Medicine, charity and mutual aid: the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950, Historical Urban Series, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2007, pp. x, 269, £60.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5148-2).
Buzzi Alfredo, Dictionary of medical quotations with biographies of authors, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, Sapiens Publishing, 2007, pp. x, 339, illus., £25.00, $48.00 (hardback 978-0-9552282-0-9).
Carter Simon, Rise and shine: sunlight, technology and health, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2007, pp. ix, 134, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-1-84520-130-2), £19.99, $34.95 (paperback 978-1-84520-131-9).
Citrome Jeremy J, The surgeon in medieval English literature, The New Middle Ages series, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xi, 191, £37.99, $65.00 (hardback 978-1-4039-6846-3).
Cook Harold J, 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).
Craik Elizabeth M. (ed. and trans.), Two Hippocratic treatises On sight and On anatomy, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 33, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2007, pp. viii, 183, €89.00, $120.00 (hardback 978-90-04-15396-9).
Craik Katharine A, 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).
Cueto Marcos, Cold war, deadly fevers: malaria eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975, Washington, DC, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. xvi, 264, £30.00, $45.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-8645-4).
Doms Sophia Misia, “Alkühmisten” und “decoctores”: Grimmelshausen und the Medizin seiner Zeit, Beihefte zu Simpliciana, vol. 3, Bern, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 248, £32.10 (paperback 978-3-03910-949-4).
Finkel Irving L, Geller Markham J. (eds), Disease in Babylonia, Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 36, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2007, pp. viii, 226, €90.00, $122.00 (hardback 978-90-04-12401-1).
Floyer Sir John. (1649–1734) of Lichfield in Staffordshire, “Advice to a young physician”, introduced and edited by Gibbs Denis, Wilson Philip K, York, William Sessions, 2007, pp. xviii, 156, illus., £15.00 (+£2.50p&p in UK) (paperback 978-1-85072-363-9).
Gould Tony. (ed.), Cures and curiosities inside the Wellcome library, London, Profile Books, 2007, pp. xiii, 226, over 120 illus., £15.00 (paperback 978-1-84668-033-5).
Grant Edward, A history of natural philosophy: from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 361, £14.99, $24.99 (paperback 978-0-521-68957-1).
Helm Jürgen, Krankheit, Bekehrung und Reform. Medizin und Krankenfürsorge im Halleschen Pietismus, Hallesche Forschungen, Band 21, Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 2006, pp. viii, 245, €38.00 (paperback 978-3-484-84021-8).
Hennock E P, The origin of the welfare state in England and Germany, 1850–1914: social policies compared, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xvii, 381, £55.00, $99.00 (hardback 978-0-521- 59212-3), £19.99, $35.99 (paperback 978-0-521-59770-8).
Higgins Peter McRorie, Punish or treat? Medical care in English prisons 1770–1850, Victoria, BC, Trafford Publishing, 2007, pp. ix, 283, illus., £14.99, €21.41, $26.07 (paperback 1-4251-0153-4).
Holland Walter W, Olsen Jørn, Florey Charles Du V. (eds), The development of modern epidemiology: personal reports from those who were there, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 456, £59.95 (hardback 978-0-19-856954-1).
Kampf Antje, Mapping out the venereal wilderness: public health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980, Ethik in der Praxis/Practical Ethics Studies, Band 28, Berlin, LIT Verlag, 2007, pp. iii, 272, illus., €29.90 (paperback 978-3-8258-9765-9).
Keller Eve, Generating bodies and gendered selves: the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England, In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2007, pp. xi, 248, £17.99, $30.00 (paperback 978-0-295-98641-8).
Lesch John E. (ed.), The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 364, £35.99, $59.50, (hardback 978-0-1951-8775-5).
Løkke Anne, Patienternes Rigshospital, 1757–2007, Copenhagen, Gads Forlag, 2007, pp. 119, illus., Kr 229.00 (hardback 978-87-12-04219-8).
McHugh Tim, Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: the crown, urban elites and the poor, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. ix, 191, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-5762-0).
Mackowiak Philip A, Post mortem: solving history's great medical mysteries, Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, 2007, pp. xv, 350, £19.95, $29.95 (hardback 978-1-930513-89-1).
McLaren Angus, Impotence: a cultural history, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. xvii, 332, £19.00, $30.00 (hardback 978-0-226-50076-8).
Martin Mai François, Diagnosing genius: the life and death of Beethoven, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, pp. xviii, 270, illus., £17.99, CA$34.95, US$29.95 (hardback 978-0-7735-3190-4).
Mandler George, A history of modern experimental psychology: from James and Wundt to cognitive science, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2007, pp. xx, 287, £20.95, $34.00 (hardback 978-0-262-13475-0).
Meinel Werner, Versteckte Fluchten: Erinnerungen eines Dresdner Arztes, 1916–1960, Münchhausen, Niederasphe, 1998, pp. 310, price not supplied (hardback).
Müller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jörg. (eds), Heredity produced: at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500–1870, Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA, and London, MIT Press, 2007, pp. x, 496, illus., £30.95, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-262-13476-7).
Nash Linda, Inescapable ecologies: a history of environment, disease, and knowledge, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2006, pp. xiii, 332, £38.95, $560.00 (hardback 978-0-520- 24891-5), £15.95, $24.95 (paperback 978-0-520-24887-8).
Niemi Marjaana, Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940, Historical Urban Studies series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xiii, 228, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-0334-4).
Priwitzer Martin, Ernst Kretschmer und das Wahnproblem, Contubernium: Tübinger Beiträge zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Band 65, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2007, pp. xiii, 314, €49.00 (hardback 978-3-515-08562-5).
Renshaw Michelle, Accommodating the Chinese: the American Hospital in China, 1880–1920, East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture, New York and London, Routledge, 2005, pp. xxii, 312, illus., £55.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-0-415-97285-7).
Ross Chad, Naked Germany: health, race and the nation, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2005, pp. xi, 239, illus., £50.00, $95.00 (hardback 978-1-85973-861-3), £16.99, $28.95 (paperback 978-1-85973-866-5).
Sappol Michael, Dream anatomy: a unique blend of art and medical science from the National Library of Medicine, Washington, United States Department of Health and Human Sciences, 2006, pp. xii, 180, illus., $30.00 (paperback 978-0-16-072473-2).
Shuttleton David E, Smallpox and the literary imagination 1660–1820, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xiii, 265, illus., £48.00, $85.00 (hardback 978-0-521-87209-6).
Smith Virginia, Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xi, 457, illus., £16.99 (hardback 978-0-19-929779-5).
Gross Solomon Susan. (ed.), Doing medicine together: Germany and Russia between the wars, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. xvii, 533, illus., £42.00, $65.00 (hardback 978-0-8020-9171-0).
Sugg Richard, Murder after death: literature and anatomy in early modern England, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2007, pp. xiv, 259, illus., £23.45, $45.00 (hardback 978-0-8014-4509-5).
Swartz Conrad M, Shorter Edward, Psychotic depression, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xv, 327, £55.00, $85.00 (hardback 978-0-521-87822-7).
Wailoo Keith, Livingston Julie, Guarnaccia Peter. (eds), A death retold: Jesica Santillan, the bungled transplant, and paradoxes of medical citizenship, Studies in Social Medicine, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. viii, 378, $55.00 (hardback 0-8078-3059-3), $21.50 (paperback 0-8078-5773-4).
Siegel Watkins Eizabeth, The estrogen elixir: a history of hormone replacement therapy in America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. ix, 351, £30.00, $45.00 (hardback 0-8018-8602-3).
van der Weijden Wouter, Leewis Rob, Bol Pieter, Biological globalisation: bio-invasions and their impacts on nature, the economy and public health, Utrecht, KNNV Publishing, 2007, pp. 224, €49.95 (paperback 978-90-5011-234-7).
Zinguer Ilana, Martin Isabelle. (eds), Théâtre de l'anatomie et corps en spectacle. Fondements d'une science de la Renaissance, Bern and Oxford, Peter Lang, 2006, pp. x, 351, £40.20, €63.10, $68.95 (paperback 978-3-03910-962-3).