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February 2009 Issue Anthony Daniels Doctor, Doctor Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It By Druin Burch LR
December 2008 Issue Frances Wilson The Magnet of Love Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed By Lydia Syson LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Barber Bones and Buboes The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague By John Hatcher LR
July 2012 Issue Thomas Levenson Hearts and Minds Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea By Thomas Wright LR
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