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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78.3 (2004) 759-764



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Walter H. Abelmann, ed. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology: The First 25 Years, 1970-1995. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2004. xxv + 346 pp. Ill. $28.00 (0-674-01458-8).

Karel B. Absolon. The Young William Henry Welch: Early Path of a Life, Founding of an Academic Career: On Pulmonary Edema. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2003. 154 pp. Ill. $69.50 (1-57529-095-2).

Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby, eds. Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry.Clio Medica, no. 73. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2004. 338 pp. $104.00, €80.00 (cloth, 90-420-1186-6); $51.00, €39.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1176-9).

Paul L. Armerding. Doctors for the Kingdom: The Work of the American Mission Hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1913-1955. The Historical Series of the Reformed Church of America, no. 43. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. 182 pp. Ill. $39.00, Saudi Riyals 150.00, Bahrain Dinars 15.00 (0-8028-2683-0).

Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen, eds. Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome. London: British Museum Press, 2003. 397 pp. Ill. £19.99 (paperbound, 0-7141-2794-9).

Daniel E. Bender. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272 pp. Ill. $62.00 (cloth, 0-8135-3337-6), $23.95 (paperbound, 0-8135-3338-4).

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Hera Cook. The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 412 pp. Ill. $55.00, £35.00 (0-19-92539-4).

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Arthur A. Daemmrich. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 203 pp. Ill. $34.05 (0-8078-2844-0).

Rowland H. Davis. The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology: From Genes to Genomes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 337 pp. Ill. $30.00 (0-19-515436-3).

Liborio Dibattista. Jean Martin Charcot e la lingua della neurologia. Collana di storia della scienza. Bari, Italy: Caccuci Editore, 2003. 320 pp. Ill. €28.00 (softcover, 88-8422-256-7).

Georges Didi-Huberman. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Trans. by Alisa Hartz. Originally published in 1982. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xii + 373 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-262-04215-0).

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Joseph Dumit. Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. In-formation Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xii + 251 pp. Ill. $59.50, £39.95 (cloth, 0...

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