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Medical History , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , October 2019 , pp. 522 - 523
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1 April 2019 – 30 June 2019

Leo van Bergen, The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950: On Humanitarianism and Colonialism (London: Lexington Books, 2019), pp. 216, £65, hardback, ISBN: 9781498595766.

Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong and Christine von Oertzen (eds), Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburg Press, 2019), pp. 320, $55, hardback, ISBN: 9780822945598.

Bradley J. Borougerdi, Commodifying Cannabis: A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World (London: Lexington Books, 2018), pp. 202, £65, hardback, ISBN: 9781498586375.

Matthew James Crawford and Joseph M. Gabriel, Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. 384, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9780822945628.

Michael Crumplin and Gareth Glover, Waterloo – After the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle (Warwick: Helion & Company, 2019), pp. 310, £29.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781911628484.

Norman Gevitz, The Dos: Osteopathic Medicine in America, 3rd edition (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) pp. 280, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781421429618.

Anthony Ryan Hatch, Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), pp.184, $19.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781517907440.

John Henderson, Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (London: Yale University Press, 2019), pp. 376, £30, hardback, ISBN: 9780300196344.

Mike Jay, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019), pp. 304, $26, hardback, ISBN: 9780300231076.

Wendy Kline, Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 264, $35, hardback, ISBN: 9780190232511.

Ellen N. La Motte and Cynthia Wachtell (eds), The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), pp. 264, $24.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781421426716.

Nara B. Milanich, Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2019), pp. 360, £25.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780674980686.

Jonathan Oberlander et al. (eds), The Social Medicine Reader, 2 vols, 3rd edition (London: Duke University Press, 2019), vol. 1: pp. 376, $28.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781478002819; vol. 2: pp. 368, $27.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781478002826.

Anne Pollock, Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge and Place in South African Drug Discovery (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 208, $27.50, paperback, ISBN: 9780226629186.

Robin Wolfe Scheffler, A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses & the Rise of Molecular Medicine (Chicago, IL, and London: Chicago University Press, 2019), pp. 368, $40, paperback, ISBN: 9780226628370.

Donald Fithian Stevens, Mexico in the Time of Cholera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. 328, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 9780826360557.

Colette H. Winn and Graziella Postolache (eds), Débats scientifiques autour de la jeûneuse prodige du XVIe siècle. La querelle de l’abstinente (1566–1602) Masculin/Féminin dans l’Europe Moderne vol. 19 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019), pp. 212, €29, paperback, ISBN: 9782406079279.

Peter Wortsman, The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard: Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), pp. 440, £30, hardback, ISBN: 9780231191289.