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Medical History , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 137 - 139
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Copyright © the Author(s) 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics (Chicago, IL: 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, IL: 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, FL: 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, MD: 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 and 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 Malcolmson, Studies of Skin Colour in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift (Farnham and 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 (Farnham: 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, 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, 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 (Farnham and 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, CA: 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 $25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-81-88789-83-2.

Luke E. Demaitre, Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe (Santa Barbara, CA: 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, DC: 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 and 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, CT: 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 Yanikdag, 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, NJ: 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, MA: 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, NY: 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.