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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81.3 (2007) 693-698
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Diana L. Ahmad. The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xiii + 132 pp. $34.95 (978-0-87417-698-8).
Arthur Allen. Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 523 pp. Ill. $27.95 (ISBN-10: 0-393-05911-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05911-3).
Andy Bell and Peter Lindley, eds. Beyond the Water Towers: The Unfinished Revolution in Mental Health Services 1985–2005. London: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2005. 159 pp. Ill. (paperbound, ISBN-1-870480643).
Douglas Biow. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xix + 244 pp. Ill. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8014-4481-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4481-4).
Christian Bonah. Histoire de l'expérimentation humaine en France: Discours et pratiques 1900–1940. Médecine et Sciences Humaines. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. 423 pp. Ill. €25.00 (978-2-251-43016-4).
Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007. vii + 585 pp. Ill. $36.00 (ISBN-10: 0-465-07047-7; ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07047-3).
Alfredo Buzzi. Dictionary of Medical Quotations with Biographies of Authors. Duncow, U.K.: Sapiens, 2007. x + 339 pp. Ill. $48.00, €25.00 (978-0-9552282-0-9).
W. F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, eds. Dictionary of Medical Biography. Vol. 1, A-B; Vol. 2, C-G; Vol. 3, H-L; Vol. 4, M-R; Vol. 5, S-Z. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. v + 1,415 pp. Ill. (ISBN-Set: 0-313-32877-3; ISBN-Vol. 1: 0-313-32878-1; ISBN-Vol. 2: 0-313-32879-X; ISBN-Vol. 3: 0-313-32880-3; ISBN-Vol. 4: 0-313-32881-1; ISBN-Vol. 5: 0-313-32882-X).
Susan M. Chambré. Fighting For Our Lives: New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii + 262 pp. $68.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-3866-2), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-3867-9). [End Page 693]
Emily Cockayne. Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 335 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-300-11214-9).
Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 218 pp. Ill. $75.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-87087-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-521-87087-0).
Molly Caldwell Crosby. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York: Berkley Books, 2006. viii + 308 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-425-21202-5).
Marcos Cueto. The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. Scientific and Technical Publication No. 600. Originally published as El valor de la salud: Historia de la Organización Panamerica de la Salud (2004). Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization, 2007. x + 239 pp. Ill. $29.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 1-58046-263-4, ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-263-1).
Nicholas Culpeper. The English Physician. Ed., with intro. and footnotes, by Michael A. Flannery. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. x + 113 pp. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8173-1558-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1558-0).
Ernesto de Martino. The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. Originally published as La terra del rimorso (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1961). Translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn. London: Free Association Books, 2005. xxiii + 332 pp. Ill. $34.50 (paperbound, 1-85343-784-0).
Anne Digby. Diversity and Division in Medicine: Health Care in South Africa from the 1800s. Studies in the History of Medicine, vol. 5. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. 504 pp. Ill. $84.95 (0-8204-7978-0).
Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist, eds. The Historiography of Contemporary Science...

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