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Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, April 1994, no. 12. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1994. 190 pp. No price given (paperbound).
Lee Anderson. Internal Medicine and the Structures of Modern Medical Science: The University of Iowa, 1870–1990. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996. xxix + 326 pp. Ill. $49.95.
William Beaumont. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1833 with a Biographical Essay, “William Beaumont: A Pioneer American Physiologist,” by Sir William Osler. Reprint. Mineola, New York: Dover, 1996. xl + 280 pp. $10.95 (paperbound).
Lucinda McCray Beier. A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830–1995. Bloomington, Ill.: McLean County Historical Society, 1996. viii + 281 pp. Ill. $15.00 (paperbound).
Peter J. Bowler. Life’s Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life’s Ancestry, 1860–1940. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiii + 525 pp. Ill. $37.95; £30.25.
C. Helen Brock. Calendar of the Correspondence of Dr. William Hunter, 1740–1783. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1996. xiv + 124 pp. £7.00 (U.K.), £8.00 (elsewhere in Europe), £10.00 (elsewhere in the world).
Steven Cherry. Medical Services and the Hospitals in Britain, 1860–1939. New Studies in Economic and Social History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. vii + 93 pp. Tables. $27.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paperbound).
Marcos Cueto, ed. Salud, cultura y sociedad en América Latina: nuevas perspectivas histersity Estudios hist y sociedad en América Latina: nuevas perspectivas histersity Press, 1996. vii + 93 pp. Tables. $27.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paperbound).
£8.00 (elsewhere in Europe), £10.00 (Martin Dinges, ed. Homöopathie: Patienten—Heilkundige—Institutionen: Von den Anfängen bis heute. Heidelberg, Germany: Karl F. Haug, 1996. 371 pp. Ill. DM 49.80; öS 369.00; Sw. Fr. 45.00.
Martin Dinges, ed. Weltgeschichte der Homöopathie: Länder—Schulen—Heilkundige. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1996. 445 pp. Ill. DM 58.00; öS 429.00; Sw. Fr. 55.20.
Edward A. Eckert. The Structure of Plagues and Pestilences in Early Modern Europe: Central Europe, 1560–1640. Basel: Karger, 1996. x + 180 pp. Tables. $156.50.
Diane Burke Fessler. No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. xv + 280 pp. Ill. $34.95.
Hugh Freeman and German Berrios, eds. One Hundred Fifty Years of British Psychiatry. Vol. 2, The Aftermath. London: Athlone, 1996. xiv + 629 pp. $90.00.
Richard B. Gallagher, Jean Gilder, G. J. V. Nossal, and Gaetano Salvatore, eds. Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science. London: Academic Press, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1995. viii + 246 pp. Ill. $27.50.
Guido Giglioni. Latin Manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1). Philosophical Papers: Materials Related to “De Natura Substantiae Energetica” (On the Energetic Nature of Substance), 1672. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1996. viii + 208 pp. £15.00 (U.K.), £16.00 (elsewhere in Europe), £18.00 (elsewhere in the world).
Sander L. Gilman. Seeing the Insane. Reprint, with new afterword by the author. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. xiii + 251 pp. Ill. $30.00 (paperbound).
Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, John Hanauer, and Deborah Barnes. The Cigarette Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xix + 539 pp. Ill. $29.95.
Janet Golden. A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiii + 215 pp. Tables. $54.95.
Suzanne Gordon, Patricia Benner, and Nel Noddings, eds. Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics. Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xvi + 313 pp. $22.95 (paperbound).
Hugh Gusterson. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xviii + 351 pp. Ill. $39.95.
Robert A. Hahn. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. Reprint. New Haven...

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