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Book Review Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the limits of medicine (Cambridge History of Medicine.) By Jack D. Pressman. 555 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. $49.95. 0-521-35371-8

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1998 ◽

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Book Review The Cambridge History of Medicine Edited by Roy Porter. 408 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $55 (cloth); $22.99 (paper). 0-521-86426-7 (cloth); 0-521-68289-4 (paper).

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1993 ◽

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1998 ◽

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Jack D. Pressman. Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine. (Cambridge History of Medicine.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 555. $49.95

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1996 ◽

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Book Review Making Sense of Illness: Science, society, and disease (Cambridge History of Medicine.) By Robert A. Aronowitz. 267 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. $29.95. 0-521-55234-6

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1998 ◽

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Book Review The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine Edited by Roy Porter. 400 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. $39.95. 0-521-44211-7

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1997 ◽

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1993 ◽

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1992 ◽

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