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Medical History , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 158 - 159
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Cambridge University Press.

Dagmar Wujastyk, Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 264, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-199-85996-2.

Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012), pp. 224, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-821-41990-8.

Joan Nabseth Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), pp. 232, $24.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-806-14266-1.

Rose Holz, The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World, Rochester Studies in Medical History (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012), pp. 238, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-580-46399-7.

William Muraskin, Polio Eradication and Its Discontents: A Historian’s Journey Through an International Public Health (Un)Civil War, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2012), ₹495, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-04656-1.

Rajib Dasgupta, Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of Its Re-emergence (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2012), pp. 368, ₹1,095.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-04660-8.

Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones and Helen Sweet (eds), From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the West, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2009), pp. 500, ₹795.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-03702-6.

Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Sharon Messenger, The Global Eradication of Smallpox, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2010), pp. 216, ₹795.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-03981-5.

Isao Arita, The Smallpox Eradication Saga: An Insider’s View (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2010), pp. 220, ₹625.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-04095-8.

Susan Heydon, Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2009), pp. 380, ₹725.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-03697-5.

Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Anne Hardy (eds), History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2009), pp. 380, ₹895.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-03508-4.

Margaret Jones, The Hospital System and Health Care: Sri Lanka, 1815–1960, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2009), pp. 468, ₹795.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-03679-1.

Susan E. Chaplin, The Politics of Sanitation in India: Cities, Services and the State, New Perspectives in South Asian History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2011), pp. 344, ₹775.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-8-125-04203-7.

Anthony Cerulli, Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature, SUNY Series in Hindu Studies (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012), pp. 232, $80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-438-44387-4.

David Burnham, The Social Worker Speaks: A History of Social Workers through the Twentieth Century (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 224, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-409-43638-6.

Vivienne Lo (ed.), Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality (London: British Museum Publications, 2012), pp. 174, £35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-861-59188-6.

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, Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 322, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-57543-0.

Piers Mitchell (ed.), Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond Autopsy, Pathology and Display, The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 198, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-409-41886-3.

M.A. Katritzky, Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter, The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 466, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-754-66707-0.

Efraim Lev and Leigh Chipman, Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Egypt, Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 4, Étudessur le Judaïsme Médiéval (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012), pp. viii+187, €158.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-9-004-23488-8.

Sarah Ferber (ed.), The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human ‘Material’ in Modern Medical History $, $ The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 264, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-754-66834-3.

Malcolm Billings, Vartan of Nazareth: Missionary and Medical Pioneer in the Nineteenth Century Middle East (Bury St Edmunds: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2012), pp. 200, £25, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-907-37243-8.

Erlend Gehlken, Weather Omens of Enm¯a Anu Enlil: Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain, Tablets 44–49, Cuneiform Monographs 43 (Leiden: Brill Academic publishers, 2012), pp. x+332, €105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-9-004-22588-6.

Michael Tyquin, Gallipoli: an Australian Medical Perspective (Canberra: Army History Unit, 2012), pp. 148, AUD19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-921-94186-3.

Rupert Breitwieser (ed.), Disability and Impairment in Antiquity, Studies in Early Medicine 2, Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2012), pp. vii+135, £30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-407-30945-3.