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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74.3 (2000) 663-668



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Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer. AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic. An Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 304 pp. $25.00. Uncorrected proofs.

Gerrit Bos. Ibn Al-Jazzar on Fevers: Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary, Book 7, Chapters 1-16. A Critical Edition of Zad al-musa fir wa-qut al-hadir. The Original Arabic Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Commentary. The Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, London: Kegan Paul International, 2000. v + 217 pp. $75.00.

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