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Medical History , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , October 2014 , pp. 624 - 626
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Copyright © The Author 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Tzvi Langermann (ed), On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art: A Parallel English–Arabic Edition and Translation, Gerrit Bos (trans.) (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2014), pp. 152, $89.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8425-2837-5.

Patrick Singy, L’Usage du sexe: Lettres au Dr Tissot, auteur de L’Onanisme (1760) (Lausanne: Éditions BHMS, 2014), pp. 278, €39.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-9700640-8-4.

Esther Diana, Santa Maria Nuova ospedale dei fiorentini: Architettura e assistenza nella Firenze tra Settecento e Novecento (Florence: Polistampa, 2012), pp. 632, €90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-88-596-1048-9.

Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 256, £50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4039-8802-7.

Marius Turda, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 356, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-29352-7.

Gary B. Ferngren, Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 256, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1215-3.

Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr (eds), Wounds in the Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 270, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-6569-0.

Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David and Dominic Thomas (eds), The Invention of Race Scientific and Popular Representations (New York; London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 308, $125.00, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-74393-8.

Sandra Opdycke, The Flu Epidemic of 1918: America’s Experience in the Global Health Crisis (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 216, $150.00, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-63684-1.

Susan Benedict and Linda Shields (eds), Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The ‘Euthanasia Programs’ (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 266, $125.00, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-89665-8.

Jeremy Hugh Baron, The Stomach: A Biography: Four Thousand Years of Stomach Pains: Literature, Symptoms and Epidemiology (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013), pp. 368, $49.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4774-2979-2.

Lukas Meier, Swiss Science, African Decolonization and the Rise of Global Health, 1940–2010 (Basle: Schwabe, 2014), pp. 323, sFr 58.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-7965-3347-1.

Paolo de Ceglia, Storia della definizione di morte (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2014), pp. 688, €55.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-204-7504-8.

Kristy Wilson Bowers, Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 152, $80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-451-2.

David Cantor, Stress, Shock and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014), pp. 376, $125.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-476-5.

Keith Wailoo, Pain: A Political History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 296, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1365-5.

Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz (eds), Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 290, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-448-2.

Mark Jackson, The History of Medicine: A Beginner’s Guide (London: Oneworld, 2014), pp. 232, £9.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78074-520-6.

Emma Spary, Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 428, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-03105-0.

Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 264, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1340-2.

Hoi-eun Kim, Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), pp. 216, C$55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4440-3.

José Ramón Jouve Martín, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), pp. 244, C$45.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-4341-6.

C. Pierce Salguero, Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), pp. 272, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8122-4611-7.

Adrian Wilson, Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine (Farnham: Ashgate 2014), pp. 260, £85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5156-3.

Avinash Sharma, We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014), pp. 235, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-87580-704-1.

Stephen T. Casper, The Neurologists: A History of a Medical Speciality in Modern Britain, c. 1789–2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2014), pp. 256, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9192.

Fiona Hutton, The Study of Anatomy in Britain: 1700–1900 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 224, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-421-4.

Pratik Chakrabarti, Medicine and Empire: 1600–1960 (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 280, £52.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-27635-2.

Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler (eds), Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 384, €140.00, $181.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-26906-4.

Paula A. Michaels, Lamaze: An International History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 264, £19.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-973864-9.

Roland Brunner, La Folie à Rome (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2014), pp. 216, €21.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-343-02977-1.

Lavonna L. Lovern and Carol Locust, Native American Communities on Health and Disability: A Borderland Dialogue (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 252, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-30860-3.

Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945–1970 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013), pp. 400, $62.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6064-9.

John Rhodes, The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 256, £17.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-27852-4.

Gerbert Grohmann, Heilpflanzen in Rudolf Steiners Geisteswissenschaft und Medizin (Berlin: Salumed, 2014), pp. 256, €38.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-9815535-36.

Herbert G. Loos, Herzberge: Die Geschichte des psychiatrischen Krankenhauses Berlin-Herzberge von 1893 bis 1993 (Berlin: be.bra, 2013), pp. 256, €30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-95410-021-7.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.