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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

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

By Wighard Strehlow, Gottfried Hertzka

Investigating Disease Patterns: Science of Epidemiology

By Paul D. Stolley, Tamar Lasky

Ancient Egyptian Medicine

By John F. Nunn

Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England

By Carole Rawcliffe

Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition

By H. Ellis, J. Symonds, I. Crozier

A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004

By H. Guly

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

By R. Bivins, J. Pickstone

Environment, Health and History

By V. Berridge, M. Gorsky

Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860

By Anne Hardy

Modernism and Eugenics

By M. Turda

Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850

By M. Jenner, P. Wallis

John Clare: A Literary Life

By R. Sales

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

By V. Hess

Autism: A Social and Medical History

By M. Waltz

Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox

By G. Williams

A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease

By C. Timmermann

A History of the Brain: From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

By Andrew P. Wickens (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Understanding Medications

By Alfred Burger

An Outline History of Medicine

By Philip Rhodes

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

By Virginia Smith (Freelance historian)

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

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

Representations of HIV and AIDS

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

Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

By Omar Dewachi