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A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

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Diabetes: its medical and cultural history:outlines, texts, bibliography

A collection like this is bound to be mixed in quality and range; the best, most testing essays here scrutinize particular case histories to expose the complexities of intersections between science and gender. Ornella Moscucci's study of hermaphroditism "as an attempt to reconcile the concept of sexual difference with the idea of human nature" (p. 178), or Roger Cooter's fascinating essay on th...