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. 2010 Oct;54(4):572.

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Bailey Amanda, Hentschell Roze. (eds), Masculinity and the metropolis of vice, 1550–1650, Early Modern Cultural Studies Series, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. xi, 230, £52.50 (hardback 978-0-230-62366-8)

Barr Donald A, Questioning the premedical paradigm: enhancing diversity in the medical profession a century after the Flexner report, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. xiv, 226, £26.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9416-9)

Bhattacharya Sanjoy, Messenger Sharon, Overy Caroline. (eds), Social determinants of health: assessing theory, policy and practice, New Perspectives in South Asian History, 31, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2010, pp. xvi, 415 (hardback 978-81-250-3892-2)

Boulton Frank, Still counting: the life, times and continuing influence of Dr Thomas Addis MD, 1881–1949, York, William Sessions, 2010, pp. x, 303, £14.95 (plus £2.50 p&p) (paperback 978-1-85072-403-2)

Brown Karen, Gilfoyle Daniel. (eds) Healing the herds: disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine, Ecology and History series, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2010, pp. x, 299, £22.50 (paperback 978-0-8214-1885-7)

Bryant Thomas, Friedrich Burgdörfer (1890–1967). Eine diskursbiographische Studie zur deutschen Demographie im 20. Jahrhundert, Pallas Athene, Band 32, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2010, pp. 432, €52.34 (hardback 978-3-515-09653-9)

Bryder Linda, Women's bodies and medical science: an inquiry into cervical cancer, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. vi, 250, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-23603-5)

de Ceglia Francesco Paolo, I fari di Halle: Georg Ernst Stahl, Friedrich Hoffmann e la medicina europea del primo Settecento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Monografie, 54, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2009, pp. 500, €33.00 (paperback 978-88-15-13179-9)

Célestin L C, Tormented genius: a life of Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, London, privately printed, 2010, pp. xii, 204, Not for sale (paperback)

Condrau Flurin, Worboys Michael. (eds) Tuberculosis then and now: perspectives on the history of an infectious disease, McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, No. 35, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, pp. viii, 243, $29.95 (paperback 978-0-7735-3601-2)

Fisher Michael H, The inordinately strange life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery ‘lunatic’, London, C Hurst, 2010, pp. xx, 396, illus., £18.99 (paperback 978-1-84904-000-6)

Fitzpatrick Joan. (ed.) Renaissance food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: culinary readings and culinary histories, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2010, pp. ix, 171, £50.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-6427-7)

Gradmann Christoph, Simon Jonathan, Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. xiv, 266, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-2-281-8)

Guillem-Llobat Ximo, Frasquet Gabriel Garcia. (eds), Salut, alimentació i cultura popular al País Valencià, VI Trobades del Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència: “Medicina rural i cultura popular al País Valencià: homenatge a Joan Pellicer I Bataller”, Gandia, 5–7 de febrer de 2009, Gandia CEIC Alfons el Vell, 2009, pp. 347 (paperback 978-84-96839-27-4)

Haeseker Barend, ‘Vileine hippocraten’: Geneeskunde in dichtvorm door Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Rotterdam, Erasmus, 2010, pp. 222, €34.50 (paperback 978-90-5235-203-9)

Haller John S, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the mind/body connection: the roots of complementary medicine, Swedenborg Studies, No. 19, West Chester, PA, Swedenborg Foundation, 2010, pp. xxi, 321, $29.95 (hardback 978-0-87785-331-2)

Hawkins Sue, Nursing and women's labour in the nineteenth century: the quest for independence, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, pp. xii, 228, £75.00 (hardback 978-0-415-55169-4)

Hsu Elisabeth, Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine, University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 68, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. xvi, 404, £60.00, $120.00 (hardback 978-0-521-51662-4)

Jones Emma L, Snow Stephanie J, Against the odds: black and minority ethnic clinicians and Manchester, 1948 to 2009, Manchester NHS Primary Care Trust, 2010, pp. xviii, 141, £15.00 (paperback 978-0-9558971-3-9)

MacDonald Helen, Possessing the dead: the artful science of anatomy, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 2010, pp. x, 291, $39.99 (paperback 978-0-522-85735-1)

Marsh Ian, Suicide: Foucault, history and truth, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. xii, 251, £19.99, $34.99 (paperback 978-0-531-13001-1)

Mills Catherine, Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800–1914, Studies in Labour History, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2010, pp. xxvi, 284, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-6087-3)

Mold Alex, Berridge Virginia, Voluntary action and illegal drugs: health and society in Britain since the 1960s, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. x, 242, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52140-7)

Quevedo V Emilio, Pérez R Germán Enrique, Miranda C Néstor, Eslava C Juan Carlos, Hernández A Mario, Bustos Lisa P, Durán María Fernanda, Gardía Marcela, Manosalva Carolina, Morales Elquin, Rodríguez Diana Farley, Historia de la medicina en Colombia. Tomo II: De la medicina ilustrada a la medicina anatomoclínica (1782–1865), Cali, Tecnoquímicas, 2008, pp. xvi, 303, illus., no price given (hardback 978-958-45-1416-5)

Rowold Katharina, The educated woman: minds, bodies, and women's higher education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865–1914, Routledge Research in Gender and History, No. 7, New York and London, Routledge, 2010, pp. x, 311, £70.00 (hardback 978-0-415-20587-0)

Rubenfeld Sheldon. (ed.) Medicine after the Holocaust: from the master race to the human genome and beyond, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. xxii, 233, £25.00 (paperback 978-0-230-62192-3)

Russell Colin, From atoms to molecules: studies in the history of chemistry from the 19th century, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2010, pp. xii, 328, £70.00 (hardback 978-0-7546-6855-8)

Álvarez Julio Sánchez, El protomedicato navarro y las cofradías sanitarias de san Cosme y san Damián: el control social de las profesiones sanitarias en Navarra (1496–1829), Temas de Historia de la Medicina, 9, Pamplona, Departamento de Salud, Gobierno de Navarra, 2010, pp. 365, €9.00 (978-84-235-3154-7)

Schmidt James D, Industrial violence and the legal origins of child labor, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. xxiii, 279, £17.99, $27.99 (paperback 978-0-521-15505-2)

Singh Harkishan, Sir Ram Nath Chopra: work, vision and legacy, History of Pharmacy in India and Related Aspects, vol. 7, Builders and Awareness Creators of Modern Pharmacy, 4, Delhi, Vallabh Prakashan, 2010, pp. xiv, 266, Rs 600 (local), RS 650 (outstation), Rs 850 (overseas), (hardback 978-81-85731-46-9)

Laveaga Gabriela Soto, Jungle laboratories: Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the pill, Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2009, pp. xiv, 331, £73.00, 84.95 (hardback 978-0-8223-4587-9), pounds 17.99, 23.95 (paperback 978-0-8223-4605-0)

Tyshenko Michael G, SARS unmasked: risk communication of pandemics and influenza in Canada, McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Health Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society, Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, pp. xii, 451, $34.95 (paperback 978-0-7735-36180)

Warsh Cheryl Krasnick, Prescribed norms: women and health in Canada and the United States since 1800, University of Toronto Press, 2010, pp. xx, 316, $34.95 (paperback 978-1-44260-061-4)

Welshman John, Churchill's children: the evacuee experience in wartime Britain, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. xiv, 354, illus., £16.99, $32.95 (hardback 978-0-19-957441-4)

Whitfield Michael, Dr Goodeve and Cook's Folly, Bristol, Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2010, pp. 46, illus., £3.50 (incl. p&p), available from Mike Leigh, Business Manager ALHA Books, 43 Long Eaton Drive, Whitchurch Park, Bristol BS14 9AW


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