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Volume 47 - Issue 4 - October 2003

Articles

“In These Perilous Times”: Plague and Plague Policies in Early Modern Denmark

The Intimate Experience of the Body in the Eighteenth Century: Between Interiority and Exteriority

Professional Ambitions, Political Inclinations, and Protein Problems: Conflict and Compromise in the BMA Nutrition Committee 1947–1950

The Mexican Response to high Altitudes in the 1890s: The Case of a Physician and his “Magic Mountain”

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Book Reviews

Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: the power of place (vol. 2 of a biography), London, Jonathan Cape, 2002, pp. 591, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-224-04212-2).

Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of nature: Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. x, 321, illus. £19.00, US$30.00 (hardback 0-226-63059-5).

Henry L Minton, Departingfrom deviance: a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America, University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. xi, 344, US$65.00 (hardback 0-226-53043-4), US$20.00 (paperback 0-226-53044-2).

Roy Porter, Bodies politic: disease, death and doctors in Britain 1650–1900, London, Reaktion Books, 2001, pp. 328, 137 illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-8014-3953-1).

Joan Lane, A social history of medicine: health, healing and disease in England, 1750–1950, London and New York, Routledge, 2001, pp. ix, 233, illus., £16.99 (paperback 0-415-20038-5).

Ilana Löwy and John Krige (eds), Images of disease: science, public policy and health in post-war Europe, Luxembourg, European Commission, 2001, pp. 377, €18.50 (paperback 92-894-1146-5).

Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel (eds), Formative years: children's health in the United States 1880–2000, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 304, £42.50, US$60.00 (hardback 0-472-11268-6).

Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American junkie: addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. x, 276, £31.00 (hardback 0-8018-6798-3).

David Healy, The creation of psychopharmacology, Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 469, £27.50 (hardback 0-674-00619-4).

Jennifer Stanton (ed.), Innovations in health and medicine: diffusion and resistance in the twentieth century, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xviii, 232, £55.00 (hardback 0-415-24385-8).

J S Cameron, A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 353, illus, £45.00 (hardback 0-19-851547-2).

N D A Kemp, ‘Merciful release’: the history of the British euthanasia movement, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. vii, 242, £42.50 (hardback 0-7190-6123-7), £14.99 (paperback 0-7190-6124-5).

Terrie M Romano, Making medicine scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. xi, 225, £29.50 (hardback 0-8018-6897-1).

Andrew Berry (ed.), Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, London and New York, Verso, 2002, pp. xvii, 430, £19.00, US$27.00 (hardback 1-85984-652-1).

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Volume 47 - Issue 4 - October 2003

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