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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82.1 (2008) 244-248

Books Received*
Guy Attewell. Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late Colonial India. New Perspectives in South Asian History, No. 17. New Delhi: Orient Longman / London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, 2007. xvi + 316 pp. Ill. (ISBN-10: 81-250-3017-4, ISBN-13: 978-81-250-3017-1).
Laura Battini and Pierre Villard, eds. Médecine et Médecins au Proche-Orient Ancien. Actes du Colloque International Organisé á Lyon les 8 et 9 Novembre. BAR International Series, no. 1528. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2006. xviii + 178 pp. Ill. £43.00 (paperbound, 1-84171-750-9).
Harvey Brown. Pickerill: Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental Research. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press, 2007. 271 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-1-877372-46-9).
Rolf Brüggemann and Gisela Schmid-Krebs. Verortungen der Seele - Locating the Soul. Psychiatriemuseen in Europa/Museums of Psychiatry in Europe. Frankfurt, Germany: Mabuse-Verlag, 2007. 202 pp. Ill. €29.90 (paperbound, 978-3-938304-48-8).
John Buckingham. Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of Strychnine. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2007. xix + 298 pp. Ill. $35.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 1-4200-5315-9, ISBN-13: 978-1-4200-5315-9).
June K. Burton. Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815. Fashioning the Eighteenth Century. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxx + 288 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-89672-559-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-559-1).
Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger, eds. Littérature et médecine: Approches et perspectives (XV1-XIX siécle). Recherches et Rencontres, no. 24. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Genéve. Geneva: Droz, 2007. 288 pp. (paperbound, 978-2-600-01146-4).
E. Chaves-Carballo. The Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling: Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy. Eastbourne, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. xx + 260 pp. Ill. $75.00 (ISBN-10: 1-84519-183-8, ISBN-13: 978-1-84519-183-2). [End Page 244]
Felip Cid. Museología Médica, Aspectos Teóricos y Cuestiones Prácticas. 2 vols. Bilbao, Spain: Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia / Medikuntza Eta Zientzia Historiaren Euskal Museoa, 2007. 775 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 978-84-935565-1-8, 978-84-935565-2-5).
Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin, eds. Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2007. xvii + 163 pp. Ill. $12.00 (paperbound, 978-0-941901-42-0).
Crista DeLuzio. Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930. New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ix + 330 pp. $55.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-8699-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8699-7).
Ludwig M. Deppisch. The White House Physician: A History from Washington to George W. Bush. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007. x + 256 pp. Ill. $39.95 (paperbound, 978-0-7864-2976-9).
Paul V. Dutton. Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xi + 253 pp. $29.95, £14.95 (978-0-8014-4512-5).
James Elwick. Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, no. 1. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. x + 233 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-185-196-9203).
Helen Epstein. The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight against AIDS. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. xxiii + 326 pp. Ill. $26.00 (ISBN-10: 0-374-28152-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28152-6).
Anton Erkoreka. La Historia de la Medicina en el País Vasco. 25 años del Museo (1982–2007). Bilbao, Spain: Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia / Medikuntza Eta Zientzia Historiaren Euskal Museoa, 2007. 82 pp. Ill. No...

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