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Literature and Medicine 20.2 (2001) 247-248



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Bolens, Guillemette. La Logique du Corps Articulaire: Les Articulations du Corps Humain dans la Littérature Occidentale. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000.

Buchanan, Allen, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Christakis, Nicholas A. Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Crutchfield, Susan, and Marcy Epstein, eds. Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Davis, Cortney. I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body. New York: Random House, 2001.

Deutsch, Helen, and Felicity Nussbaum, eds. "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Donaldson-Evans, Mary. Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Driscoll, Lawrence. Reconsidering Drugs: Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Finke, Michael C., and Carl Niekerk, eds. One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Furst, Lilian R., ed. Medical Progress: Social Reality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Gordon, Rae Beth. Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Green Blood, Red Tears, Joe Terrence Gray, 86 min, 40 sec., CineStream, 2000, videocassette.

Greene, Gayle. The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001.

Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. Bodily Charm: Living Opera. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Isenberg, Jeffrey Scott. The Modern Aesthetic Surgeon: Confronting a Medical Paradox in an Aging World. Bristol, Ind.: Wyndham Hall Press, 2000.

Isenberg, Jeffrey Scott. Peaceful Wounds: A Philosophy of Surgery. Bristol, Ind.: Wyndham Hall Press, 2001.

Jager, Eric. The Book of the Heart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Kuczewski, Mark G., and Ronald Polansky, eds. Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.

Leys, Ruth. Trauma: A Geneaology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Loo, May. East-West Healing: Integrating Chinese and Western Medicines for Optimal Health. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

McKhann, Charles F. A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Mitchell, David T., and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Morgentaler, Goldie. Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Oosterhuis, Harry. Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Sassi, Maria Michela. The Science of Man in Ancient Greece. Paul Tucker, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Scannell, Kate. Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1999.

Sengoopta, Chandak. Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Shepard, Martin. Dying: A Guide for Helping and Coping. Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 2000.

Stiker, Henri-Jacques. A History of Disability. William Sayers, trans. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1999.

Straus, Marc J. Symmetry. Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2000.

Thiher, Allen. Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Traister, Barbara Howard. The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Varey, Simon, Rafael Chabrán, and Dora B. Weiner. Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Young, C. Dale. The Day Underneath the Day. Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2001.

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