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Medical History , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 146 - 147
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Copyright © The Author 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Denis Goulet and Robert Gagnon, Histoire de la médecine au Québec, 1800–2000: De l’art de soigner à la science de guérir (Québec: Septentrion, 2014), pp. 456, C$54.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-89448-770-9.

Susan B. Levin, Plato’s Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 320, $65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-991980-2.

Nicholas L. Parsons, Meth Mania: A History of Methamphetamine (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013), pp. 242, $58.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58826-983-6.

Rochelle Dreyfuss and César Rodríguez-Garavito, Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 368, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967674-3.

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 288, $105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-08552-4.

Paula J. Martin, Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 170, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-1188-4.

Michael A. Osborne, The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 328, $50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-11452-1.

Kenneth C. Calman, A Doctor’s Line: Poetry and Prescriptions in Health and Healing (Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2014), pp. 320, £16.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-908-73789-2.

Bruce K. Alexander and Curtis P. Shelton, A History of Psychology in Western Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 559, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-00729-1.

Marc Morillon and Jean-François Falabrègues, Le Service de santé: 1914–1918 (Paris: Bernard Giovanangeli, 2014), pp. 160, €35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7587-0116-3.

Sudip Bhattacharya, Unseen Enemy: The English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617–1847 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014), pp. 245, £47.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4438-6135-9.

Fritz Hartmann, Ärztliche Anthropologie und Humanität: Gesammelte Aufsätze (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014), pp. 282, €39.80, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8260-5300-9.

Patsy Sutherland, Roy Moodley and Barry Chevannes, Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 280, $160.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-88339-9.

James A. Schafer, Jr, The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900–1940 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013), pp. 276, $72.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6175-2.

Howard Chiang, Psychiatry and Chinese History (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), pp. 288, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-438-2.

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen (eds), Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2014), pp. 304, €115.00, $149.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-26414-4.

Anna Shepherd, Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), pp. 240, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-431-3.

Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2013), pp. 250, €109.00, $141.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-24370-5.

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

Jonathan Eig, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014), pp. 400, $27.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-393-07372-0.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.