Five top books on the history of medicine and addiction

Louise Foxcroft is the author of The Making of Addiction and Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause, for which she won the Longman Pearson/History Today Book of the Year Award. Her latest book is Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years.

With Daisy Banks of The Browser, she discussed five top books on the history of medicine and addiction, including:Fat is