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The relationship between society and medicine in ancient China is a booming academic field. Fan Ka Wai points to the...

Roddy Reid's book Globalizing Tobacco Control provides a comparative framework for understanding how cigarettes, once...

The geopolitical context for nuclear technologies has changed drastically since the end of the Cold War. After the...

In January 2004, I traveled to Minneapolis to visit the special collections at the University of Minnesota's main...

Many academic and journalistic books were published in Europe and in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s on...

After rapid development over the last two decades, China now faces serious pollution problems. At the same time...

This work deals with an unusual yet topical subject, the history of equine medicine in Korea. It is welcome because...

The first page of this book summarizes the inquiry ventured by Azumi Tsuge, a professor in medical anthropology: what...

Warwick Anderson has written an admirably readable book that weaves together bio-prospecting, cannibalism...

Following the westward expansion of the nineteenth century, US agronomists found themselves plagued by soil...