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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80.4 (2006) 805-813
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Rima D. Apple. Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii + 209 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-3793-1; paperbound, 978-0-8135-3843-3).
Philip Ball. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. viii + 436 pp. Ill. $27.00 (ISBN-10: 0-374-22979-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22979-5).
David S. Barnes. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 314 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-8018-8349-0).
Carmen Barona Vilar. Las políticas de la salud: La sanidad valenciana entre 1855 y 1936. Valéncia: Universitat de Valéncia, 2006. 292 pp. Ill. E16.00 (paperbound, 84-370-6331-0).
Naomi Baumslag. Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus. Westpoint, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2005. xxix + 272 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-275-98312-9).
Angela Bennett. The Geneva Convention: The Hidden Origins of the Red Cross. Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing Unlimited, 2005. xii + 236 pp. Ill. $20.00 (0-7509-4147-2).
Udo Benzenhöfer. Studien zum Frühwerk des Paracelsus im Bereich Medizin und Naturkunde. Munich, Germany: Klemm & Oelschläger, 2005. 221 pp. E28.00 (paperbound, 3-932577-914).
Udo Benzenhöfer. Zur Genese des Gesetzes zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses. Munich, Germany: Klemm & Oelschläger, 2006. 143 pp. Ill. E19.80 (paperbound, 3-932577-95-7).
Virginia Berridge and Kelly Loughlin, eds. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, no. 19. London: Routledge, 2005. xx + 299 pp. Ill. £80.00 (0-415-30432-6). [End Page 805]
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Agustí Nieto-Galan, eds. Chemistry, Medicine, and Crime: Mateu J. B. Orfila (1787–1853) and His Times. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. xv + 306 pp. Ill. $52.00 (0-88135-275-6).
Sanjoy Bhattacharya. Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India, 1947–1977. New Perspectives in South Asian History, no. 14. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006. xv + 327 pp. Ill. Rs 750.00 (81-250-3018-2).
Patrice Bourdelais. Epidemics Laid Low: A History of What Happened in Rich Countries. Trans. by Bart K. Holland. Originally published as Les épidémies terrassées: Une histoire de pays riches (Paris: Éditions de la Martinière, 2003). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006. xiv + 176 pp. Ill. $42.00 (cloth, 0-8018-8294-X), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8018-8295-8).
Gary A. Boyd. Dublin 1745–1922: Hospitals, Spectacle & Vice. The Making of Dublin City. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 224 pp. Ill. $45.00, £45.00, E45.00 (cloth, 1-85182-960-1); $24.95, £19.95, E19.95 (paperbound, 1-85182-966-0).
Laurence Brockliss, John Cardwell, and Michael Moss. Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii + 216 pp. Ill. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-928742-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928742-0).
Daniel Eli Burnstein. Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 200 pp. Ill. $38.00 (ISBN-10: 0-252-03024-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03024-6).
W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. (Tilli) Tansey. The Western Medical Tradition: 1800 to 2000. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 614 pp. Ill. £50.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-521-47524-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-521-47524-2), $29.99 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-521-47565-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-521-47565-5).
Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna. Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x + 320 pp. $35.00 (0-8018-8339-3).
Claire L. Carlin, ed. Imagining Contagion in...

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