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Medical History , Volume 59 , Issue 3: Skill in the History of Medicine and Science , July 2015 , pp. 503 - 507
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Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, a Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation and Commentary (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 480, $39.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8020-9550-3.

Bryan S. Turner, Routledge Handbook of Body Studies (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 432, £140.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-59355-7.

Pascal Nouvel, Repenser le vitalisme: histoire et philosophie du vitalisme (Paris: PUF, 2011), pp. 228, €17.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-13-058296-0.

Galen, Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Volume 20, Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.), (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 20311, $1,403.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-108-02849-3.

Keir Waddington, An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe since 1500 (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 408, $30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4039-4693-5.

Ian S. Hornsey, Alcohol and Its Role in the Evolution of Human Society (Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012), pp. 684, £29.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84973-161-4.

Julie Peakman (ed.), A Cultural History of Sexuality, Volume 6 (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010/2011), pp. 1900, £350.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84520-702-1.

Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan, Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 288, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-28368-8.

Elizabeth L’Estrange and Alison More, Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530 (Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 218, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-0987-8.

Michael Stolberg, Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 304, £58.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-24343-9.

Heather Beatty, Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), pp. 256, £60, $99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-308-8.

Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden, Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899 (Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 242, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-2313-3.

Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834–1929 (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 400, £68.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-21966-3.

James C. Whorton, The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 448, £11.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-960599-6.

Setsuko Kagawa (ed.), Women’s Body, Health and Physical Education in Nineteenth to Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Volume 5 (Kyoto: Eureka Press, 2011), pp. 2500, ¥128,000, hardback, ISBN: 978-4-902454-74-1.

H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Helen King and Claus Zittel, Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 798, €217.00, $297.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-22918-1.

Mary Terrall and Helen Deutsch, Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 344, $70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4258-4.

Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Cornelis Hendrik Leijenhorst and Sander Wopke de Boer, Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction 1250–1750 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. i-viii + 387, €105.00, $146.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-23953-1.

Gideon Manning, Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. i-x + 248, €105.00, $144.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-21870-3.

Gowan Dawson and Bernard V. Lightman (eds.), Victorian Science and Literature, Part I, Volume 4 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), pp. 1504, £350, $625, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-091-9.

Gowan Dawson and Bernard V. Lightman (eds.), Victorian Science and Literature, Part II, Volume 4 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012), pp. 1904, £350, $625, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-092-6.

Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 274, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-01001-7.

Giuliana Mocchi, Bernardino Telesio tra filosofia naturale e scienza moderna (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2012), pp. 184, €58.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-6227-544-6.

Johan Nguyen, La réception de l’acupuncture en France: une biographie revisitée de George Soulié de Morant, 1878–1955 (Paris: Harmattan, 2012), pp. 232, €24, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-336-00358-0.

Lawrence Principe, The Secrets of Alchemy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 296, $25, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-68295-2.

Nancy G. Shiraisi, Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. 176, $45, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0749-4.

Walter Bruchhausen and Céline Kaiser, Szenen des Erstkontakts zwischen Arzt und Patient (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2012), pp. 252, €39.90, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-89971-982-6.

Angelika Schattner, Zwischen Familie, Heilern und Fürsorge: das Bewältigungsverhalten von Epileptikern in deutschsprachigen Gebieten des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012), pp. 299, €46.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09947-9.

Rosa Bendit, Das Tagebuch der jüdischen Kriegskrankenschwester Rosa Bendit: 1914 bis 1917, Susanne Ruess and Astrid Stölzle (eds) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012), pp. 175, €29.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10124-0.

Kerstin Bötticher, Margot Beck and Daniel Seeger, Fürsorge und Wohlfahrtspf lege in Berlin 1800–1948: Ein sachthematisches Quelleninventar. Teil 2, Landesarchiv Berlin (Berlin: be.bra wissenschaft, 2012), pp. 376, €30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-937233-96-3.

Kathrin Lieb, Split-Brain-Forschung und ihre Folgen: Medizin – Geschichte – Populärwissenschaft (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2012), pp. 191, €40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09937-0.

Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross and Anita Magowska, Medizin und Krieg in historischer Perspektive: Beiträger der XII. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Düsseldorf 18–20 September 2009 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 473, €71.90, £57.50, $93.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-631-62215-5.

Gabriele Moser, Sigfrid Stöckel and Joseph Kuhn, Die statistische Transformation der Erfahrung: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Evidenzdenkens in der Medizin (Freiburg im Breisgau: Centaurus, 2012), pp. 138, €24.80, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-86226-041-6.

Florian Mildenberger, Medizinische Belehrung für das Bürgertum: Medikale Kulturen in der Zeitschrift ‘Die Gartenlaube’ (1853–1944) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012), pp. 230, €43.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10232-2.

Heiner Fangerau, Medizin im Spielgel ihrer Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik: Schlüsselthemen für ein junges Querschnittsfach (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2013), pp. 264, €44.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10227-8.

Samuel S. Kottek, La Bible, la santé et l’hygiène (Paris: Éditions Glyphe, 2012), pp. 330, €21.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-35815-056-9.

Jacques Poirier, L’externat des Hopitaux de Paris: 1802–1968 (Paris: Hermann, 2012), pp. 210, €22.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7056-8426-6.

Danielle Jacquart and Nicolas Weill-Parot, Substances minérales et corps animés: de la philosophie de la matière aux pratiques médicales (1100–1500) (Montreuil: Omniscience, 2012), pp. 224, €35, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-916097-35-0.

Dave Lüthi, Le compas & le bistouri: architectures de la médecine et du tourisme curatif: l’exemple vaudois, 1760–1940 (Lausanne: édition BHMS, 2012), pp. I–XXII + 548, €53, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-9700640-2-2.

Nicoletta Palmieri, Conserver la santé ou la rétablir: le rôle de l’environnement dans la médecine antique et médiévale: actes du colloque international, Saint-Étienne, 23–24 Octobre 2008 (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2012), pp. 395, €35, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-86272-591-8.

Catherine Packham, Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 264, £50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-230-27618-5.

Olivier Faure, Missions religieuses, missions médicales, et ‘mission civilisatrice’ (XIXe et XXe siècles) (Paris: Karthala, 2012), pp. 216, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-8111-0711-6.

Jean-Francois Hutin, Au lit du malade: une histoire de l’examen Clinique (Paris: Édition Glyphe, 2012), pp. 476, €26.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-35815-071-2.

Krishna R. Dronamraju, Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics (New York: Springer, 2012), pp. I–XIV + 232, €139.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4614-1676-0.

Simone Mammola, La ragione e l’incertezza: filosofia e medicina nella prima età moderna (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2012), pp. 384, €42, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-568-4537-2.

Ahmed Ben Miled, Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles (Carthage: Cartaginoiseries, 2012), pp. 317, €29.60, paperback, ISBN: 978-9973-704-25-2.

Józef Borówka, Polska etyka lekarska w ujęciu dziejowym: studium filozoficzno-historyczne (Toruń: Wydawnictwo MADO, 2012), pp. 490, zł49.0, paperback, ISBN: 978-83-61186-81-6.

Jean Claude Ameisen, Patrick Berche, Yvan Brohard and Axel Kahn, Una historia de la medicina o El aliento de Hipócrates (Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2012), pp. 224, €29.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-84-9785-866-3.

Francisco Vázquez García and Richard Cleminson, Los hermafroditas: medicina e identidad sexual en España (1850–1960) (Granada: Editorial Comares, 2011), pp. 280, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-9836-908-3.

Miguel Ángel Sánchez González, Historia de la medicina y humanidades médicas (Barcelona: Elsevier, 2012), 2nd edn, pp. 400, €46.20, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-458-2115-2.

José Gaspar Rodolfo and Cortés Riveroll, Historia de la medicina en Puebla durante la intervención francesa (Puebla, Pue: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2012), pp. 295, $200.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-607-8423-14-9.

Gino Fornaciari, Franco Bellato and Valentina Giuffra, Storia della medicina e della psicologia (Pisa: Felici, 2012), pp. 272, €25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-6019-617-0.

Stefano Pellicanò, Le donne nella storia della medicina e nella società: dalla preistoria agli inizi del XXI secolo (Crotone: Calzone, 2011), pp. 68, €18.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-88-97215-08-0.

Paolo Gulisano, L’arte del guarire: storia della medicina attraverso i santi (Milano: Àncora, 2011), pp. 176, €15.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-514-0930-2.

Innocenzo Mazzini, Letteratura e medicina nel mondo antico (Roma: Università La Sapienza, 2011), pp. 222, €32.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-95814-60-5.

Daniela Colamedici, Andrea Masini and Gioia Roccioletti, La medicina della mente: storia e metodo della psicoterapia di gruppo (Roma: L’asino d’oro, 2011), pp. 396, €30.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-6443-057-7.

Poonam Bala (ed.), Contesting Colonial Authority (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), pp. I–XVII + 157, $60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7391-7023-6.

Helen Dingwall and others, Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History (Edinburgh: Birlinn Press, 2011), pp. I–XI + 186, £30.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78027-018-0.

Sylvia 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.

Xiaoping Fang, Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2012), pp. 310, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-433-8.

Charles Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), pp. 368, $20.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-262-51733-1.

Alisha Rankin, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany (Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 312, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-92538-7.

William Buchan, Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache?: Medical Advice from 1769 (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2012), pp. 208, £14.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-85124-382-2.

Donald Filtzer, The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 208, £14.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-521-11373-1.

Christopher Pittard, Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 272, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6813-8.

John Chircop and Patrice Bourdelais, Vulnerability, Social Inequality and Health (Lisboa: Colibri, 2010), pp. 172, €10.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-972-772-998-2.

Klaus Bergdolt and Ingo F. Herrmann (eds), Was ist Gesundheit?: Antworten aus Jahrhunderten (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2011), pp. 152, €24.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09836-6.

Rose Holz, The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012), pp. 238, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58046-399-7.

Michael Frampton, Embodiments of Will: Anatomical and Physiological Theories of Voluntary Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C–A.D. 1300 (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008), pp. I–XXXV + 623, $100.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-639-08294-4.

Laura Kelly, Irish women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education and Careers (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013) pp. 240, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8835-3.

Roger Rolls, Diseased, Douched and Doctored: Thermal Springs, Spa Doctors and Rheumatic Diseases (London: London Publishing Partnership, 2012) pp. 256, £19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-907994-09-8.

Mark Osborne Humphries, The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 348, $32.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-1044-6.