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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78.4 (2004) 932-938



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'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-sulamī. Questions and Answers for Physicians: A Medieval Arabic Study Manual. Translated, edited, and intro. by Gary Leiser and Noury Ad-Khaledy. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, vol. 3. Leiden: Brill, 2004. xii + 133 + 100 pp. $74.00, €59.00 (90-04-136711).

Deirdre Bair. Jung: A Biography. Boston: Little Brown, 2003. xiii + 881 pp. Ill. $U.S. 35.00, $Can. 50.00 (0-316-07665-1).

Catherine Blackledge. The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xi + 322 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-8135-3455-0).

Christian Bonah, Étienne Lepicard, and Volker Roelcke, eds. La médecine expérimentale au tribunal: Implications éthiques de quelques procès médicaux du XXe siècle européen. Histoire des sciences des techniques et de la médecine. Paris: Éditions des Archives Contemporaines, 2003. x + 462 pp. No price given (paperbound, 2914610157).

Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, and Dominic A. Sisti, eds. Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. xiv + 311 pp. $39.95 (paperbound, 1-58901-014-0).

Larry Carbone. What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix + 291 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-19-516196-3).

J. T. H. Connor and Michael G. Rohde, curators. Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam. Catalogue in Support of the Exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, D.C.: Essays on Military Medicine and Surgery and Selected Photographs from the Exhibit. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Health and Medicine, 2004. 91 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

John K. Crellin. A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century: To Be Taken Three Times a Day. New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press (Haworth Press), 2004. xi + 340 pp. Ill. $47.96 (cloth, 0-7890-1844-6), $31.96 (paperbound, 0-7890-1845-4). [End Page 932]

Hugh Crone. Paracelsus: The Man Who Defied Medicine. Melbourne: Albarello Press, 2004. 212 pp. $Aust. 29.95 (paperbound, 0-646-43327-X).

John W. Crowley and William I. White. Drunkard's Refuge: The Lessons of the New York State Inebriate Asylum. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. x + 127 pp. $24.95 (1-55849-430-8).

Anne-Christine d'Adesky. Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS. London: Verso, 2004. vi + 487 pp. $U.S. 30.00; £20.00; $Can. 45.00 (1-84467-002-3).

Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun. Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 319 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-226-14905-6).

Fritz Dross. Krankenhaus und lokale Politik, 1770-1850: Das Beispiel Düsseldorf. Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens, no. 67. Essen, Germany: Klartext, 2004. 400 pp. Tables. €24.90 (3-89861-257-0).

Eric J. Engstrom and Volker Roelcke, eds. Psychiatrie im 19. Jahrhundert: Forschungen zur Geschichte von psychiatrischen Institutionen, Debatten und Praktiken im deutschen Sprachraum. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Medizinische Forschung, no. 13. Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe, 2003. 294 pp. Sw. Fr. 68.00, €47.50 (paperbound, 3-7965-1933-4).

Anton Erkoreka. Begizkao: Todas las creencias sobre el begizko que los vascos han acumulado a lo largo de los siglos / Mal de Ojo: Todos los métodos para prevenir el mal de ojo, sus tratamientos e historia. Bilbao: Ekain, 1995. 167 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 84-920885-0-8).

Anton Erkoreka (ed.), William A. Christian, Jr., and José Fernández. Libro de los Milagros de la Virgen de Orito. Alicante: Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Orito y de San Pascual Bailón, 1998. 167 pp. Ill. No price given (84-920885-5-9).

A. Erkoreka and F. Cid, curators. Elektroterapia/Electroterapia/Electrotherapy: Technical Specifications of the Exhibition, January-April 2002, Bilbao, Spain. Bilbao: Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia / Medikuntza eta Zientzia Historiaren Euskal...

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