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Quantitative and Numerical Methods in Soil Classification and Survey

By R. Webster

A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio

By Carol Poh Miller

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

George III and the Mad-business

By Ida Macalpine, Richard A. Hunter

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic about the Making of a Doctor

By Marion, Robert

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

By Virginia Smith (Freelance historian)

Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement

By Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (, University of Paris VII)

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

By Sonia Shah

Dangerous Sky: History of Aviation Medicine

By Douglas H. Robinson

Dentistry: An Illustrated History

By Malvin E. Ring

Foundations of History: Medicine Through Time (Paperback)

By Bob Rees

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

By John V. Pickstone

A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective

By Suzanne Austin Alchon

Rats, Lice and History: The Classic Account of Infectious Disease and Human History

By Hans Zinsser

The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

By Nancy Leys Stepan

Madness and Civilization

By Michel Foucault

Dr Simon Forman

By Judith Cooke

Concise History of Breast Cancer

By Marc Lacroix

In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

By Khaled Fahmy

Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

By Omar Dewachi

Philanthropy and the Hospitals of London: The King's Fund, 1897-1990

By F. K. Prochaska (Honorary Research Fellow in History, Honorary Research Fellow in History, university college, London), HRH The Prince of Wales

Representations of HIV and AIDS

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860

By Anne Hardy

Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter

By R. Bivins, J. Pickstone