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Medical History , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 385 - 386
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Received 1 January 2019 – 31 March 2019

Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine: Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860–1910, translated by Angela Jianu (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019), pp. 308, £45, hardback, ISBN: 9789633862674.

Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag (eds), Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), pp. 280, $35, paperback, ISBN: 9780823281718.

Thomas F. Baskett, Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 3rd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 540, £99.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108421706.

Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton and James W. Spisak (eds), Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), $65, pp. 728, hardback, ISBN 9780773555068.

Gerrit Bos, Maimonides On Coitus: A New Parallel Arabic–English Edition and Translation (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 242 + x, €99.00, ebook, ISBN: 9789004380080.

Shinjini Das, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market, and Homeopathy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 304, £75, hardback, ISBN: 9781108420624.

Philip van der Eijk and Peter N. Singer (eds), Galen: Works on Human Nature, Vol. I: Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 286, £90, hardback, ISBN: 9781107023147.

Peregrine Horden (ed.), Cultures of Healing: Medieval and After, Variorum Collected Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), pp. 378, £84, hardback, ISBN: 9781472456144.

Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Jari Eilola and Markku Hokkanen (eds), Encountering Crises of the Mind: Madness, Culture and Society, 1200s–1900s (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 304 + xii, €129.00, ebook, ISBN: 9789004308534.

Caroline Petit (ed.), Galen’s Treatise $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}\grave{\text{\i }}~\text{'}\!\!A\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}\acute{\text{\i }}\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\unicode[STIX]{x1D70D}$ (De indolentia) in Context (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. vi + 296, open access, ebook, ISBN: 9789004383302.

Philip Rieder and François Zanetti (eds), Materia medica : Savoirs et usages des médicaments aux époques médiévales et modernes (Geneva: Droz, 2018), pp. 312, €27.49, paperback, ISBN: 9782600058780.

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 336, £31.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780674504639.

Claire Trenery, Madness, Medicine, and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), pp. 184, £115, hardback, ISBN: 9780815367451.