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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59.1 (2004) 176-178



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Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Danielle Quéruel, and Évelyne Samama. Air, Miasmes et Contagion: Les Épidémies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age. Langres Cedex, France, Dominique Guéniot, 2003. 197 pp., illus. € 22.90.

Olaf Briese. Angst in den Zeiten der Cholera. 4 volumes. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2003. € 74.80.

Linda Bryder. A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907 - 2000. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2003. xvi, 352 pp., illus. $49.95.

Chester R. Burns. Saving Lives, Training Caregivers, Making Discoveries: A Centennial History of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 2003. xii, 659 pp., illus. $49.95.

Steven Cherry. Mental Health Care in Modern England: The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, St. Andrew's Hospital, 1810 - 1998. Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 2003. xi, 335 pp., illus. $75.00.

Jacques M. Chevalier and Andrés Sánchez Bain. The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxii, 301 pp. $65.00.

Garabed Eknoyan, Natale G. DeSanto, Shaul M. Shasha, Guido Bellinghiere, Vincenzo Savica, and Shal G. Massry, eds. History of Nephrology. Volumes 2, 3, 4. Basel, Switzerland, Karger Publishing, 2002. Vol. 2, 398 pp., illus; Vol. 3, 367 pp., illus; ffol. 4, 313 pp., illus. (No price given.)

Johannes F. S. Esser. Artery Flaps. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Erasmus Publishing, 2003. xxxv, 152 pp., illus. (No price given.)

Amy Fairchild. Science at the Borders: Immigrant Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 385 pp., illus. $48.00. [End Page 176]

Darren Flynn, Paul van Schaik, Anna van Wersch, Andy Douglass, and Paul Cann. Non-Medical In X uences upon Medical Decision-Making and Referral Behavior: An Annotated Bibliograpy. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers, 2003. xii, 289 pp., illus. $63.95.

Richard M. Frankel, Timothy E. Quill, and Susan H. McDaniel, eds. The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present, Future. Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press, 2003. xii, 298 pp., illus. $65.00.

Joanna Grant. A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the 'Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories.' New York, Routledge Curzon, 2003. xi, 209 pp., illus. $95.00.

Anita Guerrini. Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 165 pp., illus. $42.00 (paper).

Nadey S. Hakim and Vassilios E. Papalois. History of Organ and Cell Transplantation. London, Imperial College Press. xiii, 444 pp., illus. (No price given).

Michael Hau. The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890 - 1930. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. x, 286 pp., illus. $22.00 (paper).

Kaprinszay Károly. Orvostörténeti Közlemények. Budapest, Hungary, Library for the History of Medicine, 2002. 254 pp., illus. (No price given.)

Peggy Leatt and Joseph Mapa, eds. Government Relations in the Health Care Industry. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers, 2003. xviii, 222 pp., illus. $65.00.

G. E. R. Lloyd. In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. xxi, 258 pp., illus. (No price given.)

Shelley McKellar. Surgical Limits: The Life of Gordon Murray. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. x, 270 pp., illus. $45.00.

David Marcombe. Leper Knights: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, 1150 - 1344. Woodbridge, U.K., Boydell Press, 2003. xvi, 320 pp., illus. $75.00.

Jonathan Michel Metzl. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. xii, 275 pp., illus. $24.95 (paper).

Julius Rocca. Galen on the Brain: Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century A.D. Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill Publishing, 2003. xvi, 313 pp., illus. $99.00. [End Page 177]

William G. Rothstein. Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution. Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press, 2003. xiii, 466 pp. $95.00.

Li Shih-Chen. Chinese Medicinal Herbs...

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