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Medical History , Volume 58 , Issue 2: New Directions and Challenges in Histories of Health, Healing and Medicine in South Africa , April 2014 , pp. 303 - 307
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Frank Huisman and Harry Oosterhuis (eds), Health and Citizenship: Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 304, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-432.

Robert Peckham (ed), Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 198, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-83619-7.

Jean-Patrice Boudet, Franck Collard and Nicolas Weill-Paroté (eds), Meìdecine, astrologie et magie entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance: autour de Pietro d’Abano (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013), pp. i–xvi $+$ 340, €54.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-8450-468-5.

Robert Weston, Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665-1789 (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 240, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5217-1.

Sara Newman, Writing Disability: A Critical History (Boulder, Colo.: First Forum Press, 2013), pp. 207, $59.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-935049-54-8.

Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), pp. 328, hardback, $35.00, £24.00, ISBN: 978-0-231-16298-2.

Abdul Nasser Al-Masri and Gerhard F. Walter, Einblick in die traditionelle islamische Medizin (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2013), pp. 320, €29.90, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-643-12075-5.

Nahyan A. G. Fancy, Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 186, £85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-62200-4.

Elisa Andretta and Marilyn Nicoud (eds), Être médecin à la cour: Italie, France, Espagne, XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013), pp. i–vi $+$ 285, €48.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-8450-481-4.

Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), pp. 328, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8232-5127-8.

Aminul Mortaza (ed), History of Islamic Medicine (Uxbridge: Koros, 2013), pp. 300, £105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78163-309-0.

René van Tiggelen (ed), Radiology in a Trench Coat: Military Radiology on the Western Front during the Great War (Gent: Academia Press, 2013), pp. 221, €30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-382-1939-4.

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

T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes (eds), Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 480, $45.00, £33.95, €40.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-04737-2.

Christopher Lawrence, Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1920: New Science in an Old Country (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 384, $39.95, £19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-456-7.

Ellen J. Amster, Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013), pp. 350, $60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-292-74544-5.

Christos LynterisThe Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man (Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 136, £45.00, $67.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-29382-4.

Silvano Fuso, La falsa scienza: invenzioni folli, frodi e medicine miracolose dalla metà del Settecento a oggi (Roma: Carocci, 2013), pp. 304, €21.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-430-6705-3.

Maria Walsh, Art and Psychoanalysis (London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013), pp. 192, £49.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84885-797-1.

Richard B. Gunderman, X-ray Vision: The Evolution of Medical Imaging and Its Human Significance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 224, $65.00, £41.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-997623-2.

Eric W. Boyle, Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013), pp. 239, $48.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-313-38567-4.

Mayumi Hayashi, The Care of Older People: England and Japan, a Comparative Study (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 320, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-417-7.

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

Aminul Mortaza (ed), An Encyclopedia of Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition (Uxbridge: Koros, 2013), 10 vols, £1000.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78163-203-1.

Aminul Mortaza (ed), Development of Modern Medicine in Islamic Countries (Uxbridge: Koros, 2013), pp. 300, £105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78163-316-8.

William V. Harris, Mental Disorders in the Classical World (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 532, €165.00, $229.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-24982-0.

Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Was Hitler Ill?: A Final Diagnosis (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012), pp. 300, £20.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7456-5222-1.

Mona Gleason, Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900–1940 (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013), pp. 232, C$95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-4132-0.

Sharon Ruston, Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 232, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-26428-2.

Laurie Edwards, In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America (New York: Walker & Co., 2013), pp. 256, $26.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8027-1801-3.

Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown, Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013), pp. 350, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6121-9.

Zrinka Stahuljak, Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 352, $75.00, £49.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8122-4447-2.

Sandra K. Lucore and Monika Trümper, Greek Baths and Bathing Culture: New Discoveries and Approaches (Leuven; Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2013), pp. i–viii $+$ 350, €85.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-90-429-2897-8.

Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret, Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013), pp. 320, HK$195.00, $25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-988-8139-52-1.

Götz Aly, Die Belasteten: ›Euthanasie‹ 1939–1945: eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2013), pp. 352, €22.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-10-000429-1.

Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 240, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-03903-9.

Beatrix Hoffman, Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 360, $30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-34803-2.

Lee McDowell, Vitamin History, The Early Years (Sarasota: First Edition Design Publishing, 2013), pp. 290, $17.06, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-62287-266-4.

Margaret Humphreys, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 400, $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0999-3.

Hilary Marland, Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 (Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 288, $92.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-32813-7.

Valerie Worth-Stylianou (ed), Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581-1625) (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013), pp. 412, C$37.00 paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7727-2138-9.

Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe (eds), The Fifteenth Century XII: Society in an Age of Plague (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013), pp. 241, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84383-875-3.

Cristina MalcolmsonStudies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 248, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-3778-3.

Adrian Wilson, Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England (Aldershot, Hamps.: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 270, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-6812-7.

Wolfgang Hübner, Körper und Kosmos: Untersuchungen zur Ikonographie der zodiakalen Melothesie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013), pp. 412, €84.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-447-06922-9.

Janet Greenlees and Linda Bryder (eds), Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 240, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-434-4.

James Thomas Hamilton Connor and Stephan Michael Curtis (eds), Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), pp. 320, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-157-2.

James F. Stark, The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875–1920: Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 272, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-446-7.

Ylva Söderfeldt, From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf Movement 1848-1914 (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013), pp. 316, €35.80, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-2119-8.

Derek J. Oddy and Alain Drouard, The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 284, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5439-7.

Yves Pouliquen, Cabanis, un idéologue: de Mirabeau à Bonaparte (Paris: Jacob, 2013), pp. 320, €25.90, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7381-2880-5.

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.

Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Jim Kim and Matthew Basilico (eds), Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), pp. 512, $90.00, £62.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-520-27197-5.

Gülhan Balsoy, The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 180, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-325-5.

Daya Ram Varma, Reason and Medicine: Art and Science of Healing from Antiquity to Modern Times (Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2013), pp. i-xii $+$ 352, Rs 500, $25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-81-88789-83-2.

Luke E. Demaitre, Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2013), pp. 340, £37.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-275-98485-4.

Sophie Vasset, Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013), pp. i-vii $+$ 260, £65.00, €76.00, $99.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7294-1065-6.

Richard A. Gabriel, Between Flesh and Steel: A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2013), pp. 312, $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-61234-420-1.

Marion Geiger, Poétiques de la maladie: D’Honoré de Balzac à Thomas Mann (Louvain; Paris: Éditions Peeters, 2013), pp. i-vi $+$ 281, €45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-90-429-2609-7.

A. D. Cliff and Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 208, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-959661-4.

Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Patrick Siena, A medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 304, £60.00, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-413-9.

Michael Alan Taylor, Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 320, $34.95, £22.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-994806-2.

Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein, Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), pp. 368, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-300-18663-5.

Ioannis Solos, Jigong Ao and Deng Zhang, Gold Mirrors and Tongue Reflections: The Cornerstone Classics of Chinese Medicine Tongue Diagnosis - The Ao Shi Shang Han Jin Jing Lu, and the Shang Han She Jian (London: Singing Dragon, 2013), pp. 304, £40.00, $65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84819-095-5.

Kelly E. Happe, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project (New York: New York University Press, 2013), pp. 303, $75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8147-9067-0.

Yücel Yanikdağ, Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), pp. 320, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7486-6578-5.

Manon Parry, Broadcasting birth control: mass media and family planning (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013), pp. 210, $75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6152-3.

Markus Asper (ed), Writing Science: Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece (Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), pp. i-viii $+$ 502, $168.00, €119.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-11-029505-4.

Kristy Wilson Bowers, Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 152, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-451-2.

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