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Medical History , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , October 2017 , pp. 606 - 608
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© The Author 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

1 April 2017–30 June 2017

Maryse Guay, Paul Bramadat, Reál Roy and Julie A. Bettinger (eds), Public Health in the Age of Anxiety: Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2017), pp. 408, C$95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4875-0020-7.

Stuart Elden, Foucault: The Birth of Power (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017), pp. 240, $69.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5095-0725-2.

Susan A. Ashley, ‘Misfits’ in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 312, $114.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-350-01339-1.

Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner (eds), Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017), pp. 244, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-594-6.

Gideon Manning and Cynthia Klestinec (eds), Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017), pp. 279, CHF 99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-56513-2.

Greg Eghigian (ed.), The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health (Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 392, £165.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-78160-3.

Londa Schiebinger, Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2017), pp. 256, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5036-0017-1.

Daniel Sledge, Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017), pp. 280, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7006-2430-0.

Wolf D. Storl, The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017), pp. 34, $24.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-62317-093-6.

William Green, Contraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine (New York: New York University Press, 2017), pp. 336, $30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4798-3698-7.

Timo Baumann, Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kreislaufforschung im Nationalsozialismus 1933–1945 (Berlin: Springer, 2017), pp. 270, €39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-662-54399-3.

Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper and Susanne Doetz (eds), History of Human Genetics: Aspects of Its Development and Global Perspectives (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017), pp. 576, CHF 187.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-51782-7.

Michael Stolberg, A History of Palliative Care, 1500–1970: Concepts, Practices, and Ethical Challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017), pp. 219, CHF 99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-54177-8.

Philippe Scherpereel, Philosophie et médecine (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017), pp. 170, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-343-11439-2.

Thomas Helling, Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941–1945 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017), pp. 476, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4766-6421-7.

Marina Soroka, The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814–1919 (Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 342, £105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-79245-5.

Debashis Bandyopadhyay and Pritha Kundu (eds), Imperial Maladies: Literatures on Healthcare and Psychoanalysis in India (Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2017), pp. 296, $195.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-53611-863-6.

Patricia D’Antonio, Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2017), pp. 160, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-7103-4.

Heiner Fangerau, Sascha Topp and Klaus Schepker (eds), Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit: Zur Geschichte ihrer Konsolidierung (Berlin: Springer, 2017), pp. 634, €39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-662-49805-7.

Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus (eds), The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017), pp. 318, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-595-3.

Holly Folk, The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. 366. $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4696-3278-0.

Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 239, €123.04, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-49534-7.

Bernard Alex Gaüzere and Pierre Aubry, Histoire de la médecine à l’île Bourbon – La Réunion: Tome 1 – De la découverte de l’île à nos jours (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017), pp. 322, €33.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-343-07551-8.

Jacques Poirier and Christian Derouesné, L’éducation médicale en France, de la Révolution à nos jours (Paris: Hermann, 2017), pp. 390, €28.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7056-9100-4.

Pauline Mortas, Une rose épineuse: La défloration au XIXe siècle en France (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017), pp. 468, €22.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7535-5217-3.

Guillaume Lachenal, Le médecin qui voulut être roi : sur les traces d’une utopie coloniale (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2017), pp. 368, €24.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-021-14256-3.

David Bennett, Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A Study of the Extant Formularies (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 250, £110.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-4165-6.

Philip Wexler (ed.), Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (London: Elsevier, 2017), pp. 192, £24.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-1280-9554-6.

Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont and Sokhieng Au (eds), Bodies Beyond Borders Moving Anatomies, 1750–1950 (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2017), pp. 304, €59.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-94-6270-094-9.

Susan Grant (ed.), Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective: Comparing Professions, Practice and Gender, 1880–1960 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 281, €96.29, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-44170-2.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.