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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81.4 (2007) 910-917

Books Received*
Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford, and John Stevenson. Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790–1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 393 pp. Ill. $120.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-926706-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926706-4).
Sunil S. Amrith. Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. xiii + 261 pp. Ill. $74.95 (ISBN-10: 1-4039-8593-6, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-8593-4).
Donald A. Barr. Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv + 303 pp. Ill. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-8018-8574-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8574-7), $49.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-8018-8575-2, ISBN-13: 978-8018-8575-4).
Alison Bashford, ed. Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present. Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. xiv + 271 pp. $74.95 (ISBN-10: 0-230-50706-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-50706-7).
Catarina Belo. Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies, vol. 69. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007. xii + 249 pp. $120.00, E89.00 (978-90-04-15587-9).
Nick Black. Walking London's Medical History. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2006. 231 pp. Ill. (paperbound, 978-1-85315-619-9).
Michael Bliss. The Discovery of Insulin. 25th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 304 pp. Ill. $22.50 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-226-05899-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05899-3).
Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely, eds. Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950. Historical Urban Studies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 269 pp. Ill. $99.95, £60.00 (978-0-7546-5148-2).
Robert Bud. Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ix + 330 pp. Ill. £30.00 (978-0-19-925406-4). [End Page 910]
Ian Burney. Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination. Encounters, Cultural Histories. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2006. viii + 193 pp. Ill. $59.95 (0-7190-7376-6).
Herbert C. Covey. African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. vii + 207 pp. $85.00 (ISBN-10: 0-7391-1644-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1644-9).
Elizabeth M. Craik. Two Hippocratic Treatises on Sight and on Anatomy. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 33. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006. viii + 183 pp. Ill. $120.00, E89.00 (ISBN-10: 90-04-15396-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15396-7).
M. Anne Crowther and Marguerite W. Dupree. Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, no. 43. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 425 pp. Ill. $120.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-83548-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-521-83548-0).
Marcos Cueto. Cold War, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975. Washington, D.C.: Woodrew Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi + 264 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8018-8645-4).
Pete Daniel. Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xii + 209 pp. Ill. $26.95 (paperbound, 0-8071-3098-2).
Devra Davis. The Secret History of the War on Cancer. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 535 pp. Uncorrected proofs. $U.S. 27.50, $Can. 33.00 (978-0465-015665).
Kathy Davis. The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xii + 277 pp. Ill. $79.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4045-4), $22.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4066-9).
Luke Demaitre. Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press...

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