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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 62.1 (2007) 122-124
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David S. Barnes. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi, 314 pp., illus. $35.
Linda L. Barnes. Needles, Herbs, Gods and Ghosts: China, Healing and the West to 1848. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 458 pp., illus. (No price given).
Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, eds. Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 492 pp., illus. $85.
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Agustí Nieto-Galan, eds. Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1853) and His Times. Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, Watson Publishing International, 2006. xxv, 306 pp., illus. (No price given).
W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. (Tilli) Tansey. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800 to 2000. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 614 pp., illus. (No price given).
Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna. Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x, 320 pp. $35.
Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling, eds. Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom. London, Routledge, 2006. xi, 234 pp., illus. (No price given).
Laura E. Ettinger. Nurse Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2006. xvi, 269 pp., illus. $26.95 (paper). [End Page 122]
Robert Fortuine. A Century of Adventure in Northern Health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879–1978. Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, 2006. xviii, 150 pp., illus. $18.95 (paper).
Kurt Fleischhauer and Göran Hermerén. Goals of Medicine in the Course of History and Today. Stockholm, Sweden, Almquist and Wiksell International, 2006. 480 pp. SEK 366.
Kirsten E. Gardner. Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp., illus. $21.95 (paper).
Andras Gedeon. Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries. Newark, New Jersey, Springer, 2006. vii, 551 pp., illus. $89.95.
Teresa Ortiz Gómez. Medicine, historia y género: 130 anos de investigación feminista. Oviedo, KRK Editions, 2006. 362 pp. (No price given).
Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics. Edited by William C. Summers. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. ix, 334 pp., illus. $50.
Anthony Kessel. Air, the Environment and Public Health. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 243 pp., illus. $90.
Cesare Lombroso. Criminal Man. Translated by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xviii, 424 pp., illus. $22.95 (paper).
Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe. The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. London, Routledge, 2006. xvii, 278 pp., illus. (No price given).
Kathryn Montgomery. How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 246 pp. (No price given).
Kim Pelis. Charles Nicolle: Pasteur's Imperial Missionary, Typhus and Tunisia. New York, University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix, 384 pp., illus. (No price given).
Roy Porter, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. vi, 408 pp. $22.99 (paper).
Jeffrey S. Reznick. Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004. xii, 172 pp., illus. $69.95. [End Page 123]
Jarrett Rudy. The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. Montreal, McGill–Queen's University Press, 2005. x, 232 pp., illus. $27.95 CAN (paper).
Victoria Sweet. Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. Atlanta, Georgia, Taylor and Francis Group, 2006. xviii, 326 pp., illus. (No price given).
Peter Thorsheim. Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800...

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