(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.)
Adeloye Adelola, Ruberti Renato, The Pan African Association of Neurological Sciences (PAANS): the first thirty years, 1972–2002, Ibadan, BookBuilders. Editions Africa, 2008, pp. x, 180, £20.00, $25.00 (hardback 978-8088-59-7).
Alcanyís Lluís, Regiment preservatiu e curatiu de la pestile`ncia, ed. Jon Arrizabalaga, Els Nostres Clàssics, Barcelona, Editorial Barcino, 2008, pp. 161, no price given (paperback 978-84-7226-733-6).
Barbour Reid, Preston Claire. (eds), Sir Thomas Browne: the world proposed, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. xii, 368, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-19-923621-3).
Baskett Thomas F, On the shoulders of giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, 2nd ed., London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2008, pp. xxii, 440, illus., £75.00 (£67.50 to Fellows, Members and Trainees of the RCOG), (hardback 978-1-904752-64-6).
Blackmore Kate, The dark pocket of time: war, medicine and the Australian state, 1914–1935, Adelaide, Lythrum Press, 2008, pp. xv, 278, $39.95 (paperback 978-1-921013-19-5).
Champayou Grégoire, Les corps vils: expérimenter sur les e^tres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe sie`cles, Les Empecheurs de penser en rond, Paris, La Découverte, 2008, pp. 423, ₠24.50 (paperback 978-2-7071-5646-4).
Cook Harold J, Bhattacharya Sanjoy, Hardy Anne. (eds), History of the social determinants of health: global histories, contemporary debates, New Perspectives in South Asian Medicine, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan, 2008, pp. xvi, 364, Rs. 895 (hardback 978-81-3508-4).
Cryle Peter, Forth Christopher E. (eds), Sexuality at the fin de sie`cle: the making of a “central problem”, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2008, £42.50, $50.00 (hardback 9788-0-87413-037-9).
Davis Lennard J, Obsession: a history, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 290, £14.50, $27.50 (hardback 978-0-226-13782-7).
Dawson Lesel, Lovesickness and gender in early modern English literature, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. ix, 244, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-19-926612-8).
Forth Christopher E, Masculinity in the modern west: gender, civilization and the body, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. xi, 285, £17.99 (paperback 978-1-4039-1241-1).
Fox Cyril, Mosquito net: a story of the pioneers of tropical medicine, Manchester, i2i Publishing, 2008, pp. 253, illus., £11.95 (paperback 978-0-956036-0-2).
Fracastoro Girolamo, De sympathia et antipathia rerum, Liber I, ed. Concetta Pennuto, Studi e Testi del Rinascimento Europeo, 31, Rome, Edizioni di Stori e Letteratura, 2008, pp. xcxii, 358, ₠58.00 (paperback 978-88-8498-383-1).
Grimaudo Sabrina, Difendere la salute: igiene e disciplina del soggetto nel, De sanitate tuenda di Galeno, Elenchos series, Naples, Bibliopolis, 2008, pp. 280, ₠30.00 (paperback 978-88-7088-543-9).
Hüntelmann Axel C, Hygiene im Namen des Staates. Das Reichsgesundheitsamt 1876–1933, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2008, pp. 488, ₠64.90 (hardback 978-3-8353-0343-0).
Imber Jonathan B, Trusting doctors: the decline of moral authority in American medicine, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. xix, 275, £17.95 (hardback 978-0-691-13574-8).
Infectious disease: a scientific American reader, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 331, £11.50, $22.50 (paperback 978-0-226-74264-9).
Isin Engin F, Nielsen Greg M. (eds), Acts of citizenship, London and New York, Zed Books, 2008, pp. xii, 308, £70.00, $126.00 (hardback 978-1- 84277-951-4), £18.99, $34.00 (paperback 978-1-84277-952-1).
King Helen, Dasen Véronique, La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Lausanne, BHMS, 2008, pp. ix, 126, ₠18.66, SwFr 28.00 (paperback 978-2-9700536-6-8).
McKay Alex, Their footprints remain: biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier, International Institute for Asian Studies series, Amsterdam University Press, 2007, pp. 312, ₠47.00 (paperback 978-90-5356-518-6).
Magilton John, Lee Frances, Boylston Anthea. (eds), ‘Lepers outside the gate’: excavations at the cemetery of the Hospital of St James and St Mary Magdalene, Chichester, 1986–87 and 1993, Chichester Excavations vol. 10, CBA Research Report 158, York, Council for British Archaeology, 2008, pp. xxiii, 294, illus., and CD-ROM, £40.00 (paperback 978-1-9-0277-1-74-8).
Mandrin Isabelle, 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).
Mercuriale Girolamo, De arte gymnastica / The art of gymnastics, critical edition by Pennuto Concetta, English translation by Nutton Vivian, Florence, Leo S Olschki, 2008, pp. xiv, 1133, illus., ₠120.00 (hardback 978-88-222-5804-5).
Micale Mark S, Hysterical men: the hidden history of male nervous illness, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. xv, 366, illus., £19.95, ₠21.00, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-674-03166-1).
Monk Lee-Ann, Attending madness: at work in the Australian colonial asylum, Clio Medica 84, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2008, pp. 266, ₠55.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2419-9).
Montserrat Josep Ma., Tomás José Pardo. (eds), Catàleg de la biblioteca Salvador, Institut Botànic de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Consell Superior d'Investigacions científiques (CSIC), 2008, 2 vols, total pp. 988, ₠55.00 (hardback boxed set 978-84-00-08659-6).
Morange Michel, Life explained, transl. Matthew Cobb and Malcolm DeBevoise, New Haven and London, Yale University Press; and Paris, Editions Odile Jacob, 2008, pp. xv, 205, £14.99 (hardback 978-0-300-13732-3).
Pennuto Concetta, Simpatia, fantasia e contagio: il pensiero medico e el 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).
Quevedo V. Emilio, Pérez R Germán Enrique, Miranda C Néstor, Eslava C Juan Carlos, Hernández A Mario, Bustos Lisa P., Durán María Fernanda, García Marcela, Manosalva Carolina, Morales Elquin, Rodríguez Diana Farley, Villamizar Carlos Vladimir, Historia de la medicina en Colombia. Tomo I: Prácticas médicas en conflicto (1492–1782), Cali, Tecnoquímicas, 2007, pp. xxviii, 259, colour plates, no price given (hardback 978-958-45-0437-1).
Richardson Ruth, The making of Mr Gray's anatomy: bodies, books, fortune, fame, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 288, illus., £16.99 (hardback 978-0-19-955299-3).
Solomon Susan Gross, Murard Lion, Zylberman Patrick. (eds), Shifting boundaries of public health: Europe in the twentieth century, Rochester Studies in Medical History, vol. 12, Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2008, pp. viii, 338, £50.00, $90.00 (hardback 978-1-58046-283-9).
Smuts Alice Boardman. 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).
Syson Lydia, Doctor of love: James Graham and his celestial bed, Richmond, Surrey, Alma Books, 2008, pp. 331, illus., £20.00 (hardback 978-1-84688-054-4).
Webster Charles, Paracelsus: medicine, magic and mission at the end of time, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. xiv, 326, £30.00, $40.00 (hardback 978-0-300-13911-2).
Wellcome Collection, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, War and medicine, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2008, pp. 255, 155 illus., £19.95, $29.95 (paperback 978-1-906155-52-0).
Winchester Simon, Bomb, book and compass: Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China, London, Viking, 2008, pp. xi, 317, illus., £20.00 (hardback 978-0-670-91378-7).
Wujastyk Dagmar, Smith Frederick M. (eds), Modern and global Ayurveda: pluralism and paradigms, State University of New York Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 349, $29.95 (paperback 978-0-7914-7490-7).