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Medical History , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 400
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© The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

1 January 2018–31 March 2018

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos (eds), Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 252, £92, hardback, ISBN: 9781472487919.

Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 250, £88, hardback, ISBN: 9781138285248.

Eduardo A. Gómez, Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. 320, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781421423616.

Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett, Imagining Chinese Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2018), open access, ebook/hardback, ISBN: 9789004366183.

Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott and Sara Wilmshurst, Be wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018), pp. 308, $89.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780774837187.

María Jesús Santesmases, The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. xi $+$ 239, €93.59/€74.96, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9783319697178/9783319697185.

Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer (eds), Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (Leiden: Brill, 2018), €130.00/€143.00, ebook/hardback, ISBN: 9789004362260/9789004362727.

Quenton Wessels (ed.), Medical Pioneers of Nineteenth Century Lancaster (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), pp. 181, £58.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5275-0819-4.

Janet Weston, Medicine, the Penal System, and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. 216, £85, hardback, ISBN: 9781350021099.