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Medical History , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 150 - 151
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© The Author 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

1 July 2017–30 September 2017

Neel Ahuja, Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 288, hardback, $89.95, ISBN: 9780822360483/paperback, $24.95, ISBN: 9780822360636.

Andrew Bamji, Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup, and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017), pp. 240, hardback, £29.95, ISBN: 9781911512660.

Ian Burney and Ian Pemberton, Murder and the Making of English CSI (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. 248, hardback, $24.95, ISBN: 9781421420400.

Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury (eds), ‘A Verray Parfit Praktisour’: Essays presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017), pp. 234, hardback, £60.00, ISBN: 9781783271801.

Alissa Cordner, Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), pp. 352, hardback, $60.00/£49.95, ISBN: 9780231171465/ebook, $59.99/£49.95, ISBN: 9780231541381.

Claire Hilton, Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People. Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965–1975 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) pp. xxiii $+$ 283, hardback, €53.49, ISBN: 9783319548128/ebook, open access, ISBN: 9783319548135.

Eva Jansen, Naturopathy in South India. Clinics Between Professionalization and Empowerment (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2016), pp. xiv $+$ 194, hardback, €98.00/$117.00, ISBN 9789004324848/ebook €98.00, ISBN: 9789004325104.

Laura Kelly, Irish Medical Education and Student Culture, c.1850–1950 (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2017), pp. 296, hardback, £75.00, ISBN: 9781786940599.

Daniela Marrone, Linda Luxon and Gaetano Thiene (eds), English Students of Medicine at the University of Padua During the Renaissance (Padua: Padova University Press, 2016), pp. 180, hardback, €40.00, ISBN: 9788869380877.

Robert Marshall and Alan Bleakley, Rejuvenating Medical Education: Seeking Help from Homer (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017), pp. 325, hardback, £68.99, ISBN: 9781443895644.

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), pp. ix $+$ 316, hardback, €117.69, ISBN: 9783319528861/ebook €91.62, ISBN: 9783319528878.

Naomi Pfeffer, Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. xiii $+$ 358, hardback, ISBN: 9780300118551.

Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson and John Harley Warner (eds), Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017), pp. 368, paperback, $38.00 SGD, ISBN: 9789814722056.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Pharmocracy: Value, Politics and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 344, paperback, $27.95, ISBN: 9780822363279.

Fiona Reid, Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. 280, paperback, £19.99, ISBN: 9781472513243.

Andrew R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017), pp. 220, paperback, $29.95, 9780813584072.

C. Pierce Salguero (ed.), Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Primary Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), pp. 782, hardback and ebook, $150.00/£124.95, ISBN: 9780231179942/9780231544269.

Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner (eds), Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation (Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2017), pp. 244, hardback, £75.00, ISBN: 9781580465946/ebook £19.99, ISBN: 9781787440029.

Sasha Turner, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Slavery in Jamaica (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), pp. 328, hardback, $45.00/£37.00, ISBN 978081224918.

Corinna Wagner and Andy Brown (eds), A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 560, paperback, £28.99, ISBN: 9781472513298.

Sinclair Wynchank, Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology (Cham: Springer, 2017), pp. xv $+$ 137, hardback, €69.99/£52.99/$89.99, ISBN: 9783319433967.