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Medical History , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 466 - 468
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Copyright © The Author 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Alison S. Fell and Christine E. Hallett, First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 216, £80, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-83205-2.

Sarah Ferber, Bioethics in Historical Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 248, $85, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4039-8723-5.

Vanessa Noble, A School of Struggle: Durban’s Medical School and the Education of Black Doctors in South Africa (Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013), pp. i-xii $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}+$ 385, R345, softback, ISBN: 978-1-86914-252-0.

Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L.A. Webb, Jr., Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013), pp. 264, $80, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2067-6.

Kathryn A.L. Bayne and Patricia V. Turner (eds), Laboratory Animal Welfare (London; Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2013), pp. 336, $199.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-12-385103-1.

Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice, and Politics, 1800–1925 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 272, $95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-34102-9.

Gert Hekma, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. 304, £20, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4725-5478-9.

Diana Aurenque and Orsolya Friedrich, Medizinphilosophie oder philosophische Medizin?: Philosophisch-ethische Beiträge zu Herausforderungen technisierter Medizin (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2013), pp. 288, €70, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-7728-2641-2.

Edmond I. Eger, Lawrence J. Saidman and Rod Westhorpe (eds), The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia (New York: Springer, 2014), pp. i-xviii $+$ 944, $149, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4614-8440-0.

Ira Spar, New Haven’s Civil War Hospital: A History of Knight U.S. General Hospital, 1862–1865 (Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 2014), pp. 268, $39.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-7682-4.

Lundy Braun, Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), pp. 304, $24.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8166-8357-4.

Jetze Touber, Law, Medicine, and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Hagiographical Works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556–1605 (Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill, 2014), pp. 339, €123, $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-26513-4.

Laurie B. Green, John Raymond Mckiernan-González and Martin Anthony Summers, Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), pp. 320, $82.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8166-9046-6.

Barry M. Doyle, The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-century Britain (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), pp. 320, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-433-7.

Judy Foreman, A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Nation’s Biggest Health Problem (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 528, £19.99, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-983720-5.

Carolyn Skinner, Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-century America (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), pp. 240, $40, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3300-4.

John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner MD: With Illustrations of His Doctrines, and Selections from His Correspondence, Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 486, £28.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-108-07114-7.

Poonam Bala (ed.), Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), pp. 240, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-465-8.

Jeremy Davies, Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 228, £80, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-84291-4.

Joseph W. Williams, Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing (Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 256, £35.99, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-976567-6.

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, 2013), pp. 225, $26.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-87553-020-8.

Douglas Kerr, Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013), pp. 288, £30, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967494-7.

Marc Magro, Sous l’ œil d’Hippocrate: petites histoires de la médecine de la préhistoire à nos jours (Paris: First, 2014), pp. 304, €19.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7540-5774-5.

Bernardino Fantini and Louise L. Lambrichs (eds), Histoire de la pensée médicale contemporaine: évolutions, découvertes, controverses (Paris: Seuil, 2014), pp. 540, €38, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-02-096744-0.

Pauline Ledent, L’art dentaire en Egypte antique (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2014), pp. 226, €22, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-343-02686-2.

Maria Pia Donato, Luc Berlivet, Sara Cabibbo and Raimondo Michetti (eds), Médecine et religion: compétitions, collaborations, conflits (XIIe-XXe siècles) (Rome: École française de Rome, 2013), pp. 400, €40, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7283-0967-2.

Peter Mansfield, The Long Road to Stockholm: The Story of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): An Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 256, £26.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-966454-2.

Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama, Dents, dentistes et art dentaire: histoire, pratiques et représentations: Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Ancien Régime (Paris: l’Harmattan, 2013), pp. 370, €37.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-336-29012-6.

Corinna Wagner, Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013), pp. 328, $39.95, £27.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-938169-08-3.

Yvan Brohard and Jean-François Leblond, Herbes, magie, prières: une histoire des médecines populaires (Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2013), pp. 223, €35, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7324-5391-0.

Elena Carrera (ed.), Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 248, €107, $147, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-25082-6.

Pier Carlo Muzio and Isabella Colpo, Nemsu, il tumore del faraone: archeologia medica del male (Venezia: Marsilio, 2013), pp. 128, €15, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-317-1361-0.

Claire Crignon, Carsten Zelle and Nunzio Allocca, Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in the 17th and 18th Century (Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill, 2013), pp. 167, €92, $119, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-26812-8.

Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2013), pp. 456, C$85, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4626-1.

Christopher J. Duffin, Richard Moody and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe (eds), A History of Geology and Medicine (London: The Geological Society, 2013), pp. 512, £125, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86239-356-1.