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Medical History , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 611 - 614
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Mark Jackson, The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 328, £35.00, hardback, ISBN:978-0-19-958862-6.

Jan Peter Verhave, The Moses of Malaria: Nicolaas H. Swellengrebel (1885–1970) Abroad and at Home (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2011), pp. 317, €39.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-5235-208-4.

Johan Sebastian Pöll, The Anaesthetist 1890–1960: A Historical Comparative Study between Britain and Germany (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2011), pp. 300, €34.50, hardback, ISBN:978-90-5235-209-1.

Angus McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 248, $55.00, hardback, ISBN:978-0-226-56069-4.

Peter Elmer, The Miraculous Conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the Body Politic, and the Politics of Healing in Restoration Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 304, £65.00, hardback, ISBN:978-0-19-966396-5.

Ulla Kriebernegg and Roberta Maierhofer (eds), The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict? (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013), pp. 256, €29.80, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-2212-6.

Georges Vigarello, The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, C. Jon Delogu (trans.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), pp. 296, $29.50, £20.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-231-15976-0.

Marjo Kaartinen, Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century (London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2013), pp. 256, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-364-4.

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam (eds), Medical Museums (London: Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2013), pp. 256, £25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-904096-21-4.

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.

Dan Ch. Christensen, Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature’s Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 768, £39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-966926-4.

Mayumi Hayashi, The Care of Older People: England and Japan, A Comparative Study (London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2013), pp. 320, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-417-7.

Mical Raz, The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 178, $85.00, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-449-9.

Christian Laes, Chris Goodey and M. Lynn Rose (eds), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies A Capite ad Calcem (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 356, €128.00, $178.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-24831-1.

Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 280, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-32156-5.

John P. DiMoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. 296, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8047-8411-5.

Robert Weston, Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789 (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate), pp. 240, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5217-1.

Claudia Cornwall, Catching Cancer: The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013), pp. 240, $36.00, £22.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4422-2145-1.

Willem Levelt, A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 672, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-965366-9.

Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 368, £18.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-954168-3.

Joël Coste, Danielle Jacquart and Jackie Pigeaud (eds), La rhétorique médicale à travers les siècles (Genève: Librairie Droz, 2012), pp. 304, €60.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-600-01365-9.

Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton, Leech (London: Reaktion Books, 2013), pp. 208, £9.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78023-033-7.

David S. Jones, Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 336, $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0801-9.

Heiner Fangerau and Igor J. Polianski (eds), Medizin im Spiegel ihrer Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik: Schlüsselthemen für ein junges Querschnittsfach (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2013), pp. 264, €44.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10227-8.

Shane Doyle, Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900–1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 450, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-726533-8.

Stefan Sperling, Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 344, $98.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-92431-1.

Danny Dorling, Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times (Bristol; Chicago: Policy Press, 2013), pp. 470, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4473-0514-9.

Owen Whooley, Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 328, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-01746-4.

James O’Brien, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 256, £18.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-979496-6.

Joseph W. Williams, Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 256, £35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-976567-6.

Céline Lefève and Gilles Barroux (eds), La clinique: Usages et valeurs: Approches plurielles pour comprendre l’évolution de la médecine (Paris: Éditions Seli Arslan, 2013), pp. 192, €23.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-84276-188-2.

Claude Gagnon, Des hommes et des plantes: La petite histoire des médecines nutritionnelles (Saint-Sauveur, Québec: Marcel Broquet, 2013), pp. 228, C$24.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-89726-054-5.

Yvan Brohard, Jean-François Leblond and Axel Kahn, Herbes, magie, prières: Une histoire des médecines populaires (Paris: Université Paris Descartes; Éditions de la Martinière, 2013), pp. 223, €35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7324-5391-0.

Mieko Macé, Médecins et médecines dans l’histoire du Japon: Aventures intellectuelles entre la Chine et l’Occident (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013), pp. 336, €25.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-251-72218-4.

Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama (eds), Dents, dentistes et art dentaire: Histoire, pratiques et représentations : Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Ancien Régime (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013), pp. 370, €37.5, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-336-29012-6.

Thomas Wright, William Harvey: A Life in Circulation (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 288, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-993169-9.

Gavin Budge, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789–1852 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 304, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-23846-6.

Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson (eds), Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 322, $155.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-57543-0.

Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz (eds), Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 286, $90.00, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-448-2.

Anne Marie Moulin, Islam et révolutions médicales: Le labyrinthe du corps (Paris: Karthala, 2013), pp. 408, €29.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-8111-0850-2.

Danielle Jacquart and Nicolas Weill-Parot, Substances minérales et corps animés: de la philosophie de la matière aux pratiques médicales (1100–1500) (Montreuil: Omniscience, 2012), pp. 204, €35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-916097-35-0.

Th. Sudhoff Karl Meyer-Steineg, Geschichte der medizin im uberblick mit abbildungen (Paderborn: Salzwasser-Verlag, 2013), pp. 460, €56.90, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-84603-067-7.

Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu (eds), Medical Encounters in British India (Oxford; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 360, £30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-808921-6.

Peter R. Almond, Cobalt Blues: The Story of Leonard Grimmett, the Man Behind the First Cobalt-60 Unit in the United States (New York: Springer Verlag, 2013), pp. i-xvii + 153, €69.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4614-4923-2.

Angelika Schattner and Zwischen Familie, Heilern und Fürsorge: Das Bewältigungsverhalten von Epileptikern in deutschsprachigen Gebieten des 16–18. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012), pp. 299, €46.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09947-9.

Georges C. Benjamin, Theodore M. Brown, Susan Ladwig and Elyse Berkman, The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History (Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2012), pp. 225, $26.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-87553-020-8.

Lawrence Principe, The Secrets of Alchemy (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 296, $25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-68295-2.

Jan Abram (ed.), Donald Winnicott Today (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 512, $165.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-56487-8.

Margaret Brazier et al. (eds), Bioethics, Medicine, and the Criminal Law, 3 vols (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 992, $250.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-02589-9.

Kelly E. Happe, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project (New York: New York University Press, 2013), pp. 303, $24.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8147-9068-7.

Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas (eds), Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 208, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-403-0.

Steven M. Oberhelman (ed.), Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013), pp. 356, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-2423-9.

François Delaporte, Figures of Medicine: Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites, Nils F. Schott (trans.) (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), pp. 220, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8232-4444-7.

Lavonna L. Lovern and Carol Locust, Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 252, $90.00, 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, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6064-9.

Donald L. Fixico, Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), pp. 264, $50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8032-4356-9.

Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand and D. Christopher Ralston (eds), The Development of Bioethics in the United States (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), pp. i-viii + 267, €99.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5.

Laurie Meijer Drees, Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2013), pp. 244, C$29.95, $29.95, £24.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88864-650-7.

Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig (eds), Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 256, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-430-6.

Alisha Rankin, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 312, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-92538-7.

Tracy Shilcutt, Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944–45 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 144, $67.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-34768-8.