xv, 223 pages, 18 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Making the American body : the remarkable saga of the men and women whose feats, feuds, and passions shaped fitness history / Jonathan Black.

Patients and practitioners : lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society / edited by Roy Porter.

viii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

The health of the country : how American settlers understood themselves and their land / by Conevery Bolton Valenčius.

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Making the American body : the remarkable saga of the men and women whose feats, feuds, and passions shaped fitness history / Jonathan Black.

Patients and practitioners : lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society / edited by Roy Porter.

The health of the country : how American settlers understood themselves and their land / by Conevery Bolton Valenčius.