Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-cfpbc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-20T03:08:47.037Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Books also Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2017

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Type
Books also Received
Information
Medical History , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 333 - 335
Copyright
© The Author 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie (eds), Disability and Art History (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 200, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-5352-5.

Thomas J. Ward, Jr., Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 224, £22.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-062462-0.

Lisa Diedrich, Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), pp. 288, $98.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5179-0000-7.

Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 254, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5804-6568-7.

Michèle Hofmann, Gesundheitswissen in der Schule Schulhygiene in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016), pp. 310, €39.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-3513-3.

Günther Lorenz, Asklepios, der Heiler mit dem Hund, und der Orient: Religion und Medizin in alten Kulturen in universalhistorischer Sicht: Gesammelte Schriften (Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2016), pp. 266, €27.90, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-902936-92-9.

Dennis A. Doyle, Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–68 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 268, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5804-6492-5.

David Petriello, Bacteria and Bayonets: The Impact of Disease in American Military History (Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2016), pp. 264, $32.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-61200-341-2.

Alexander W. Clowes, The Doc and the Duchess: The Life and Legacy of George H. A. Clowes (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016), pp. 232, $25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-253-02042-0.

John W. Verano, Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016), pp. 352, $69.95, £55.95, €63.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88402-412-5.

James G. Hanley, Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–72 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 270, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5804-6556-4.

Ole Peter Grell, Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 220, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-3958-1.

Tudor Georgescu, The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania (New York: Central European University Press, 2016), pp. 290, $55.00, €48.00, £37.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-963-386-139-4.

Nicholas G. Evans, Tara C. Smith and Maimuna S. Majumder (eds), Ebola’s Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2016), pp. 288, $45.00, £37.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-262-03507-1.

Kuni Sakamoto, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of Exotericae Exercitationes (Boston, MA: Brill, 2016), pp. viii, 213, $135.00, €104.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-31009-4.

William Feindel and Richard Leblanc, The Wounded Brain Healed: The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–84 (Montreal and Chicago, IL: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), pp. 648, $100.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-4637-0.

Pamela D. Toler and Ridley Scott, Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 304, $27.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-316-39207-5.

Nina Grabe, Die stationäre Versorgung alter Menschen in Niedersachsen 1945–75 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2016), pp. 425, €66.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-11332-8.

Michel Chauvin, Le Geste qui sauve: L’Étonnante histoire du défibrillateur technique externe (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016), pp. 260, €25.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-343-08275-2.

Jean-François Hutin, Les Esgourdes du toubib: Argot et médecine (Paris: Glyphe, 2016), pp. 230, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-35815-173-3.

Philipp Eisele, Pluralismus in der Medizin aus der Patientenperspektive: Briefe an eine Patientenorganisation für alternative Behandlungsmethoden (1992–2000) (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2016), pp. 497, €73.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-11255-0.

Tracey Loughran, Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 303, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-12890-3.

David Thorley, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. ix, 232, £58.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-59311-5.

Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks (eds), Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), pp. 256, £100.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-569-3.

Paul A. Kennedy, Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016), pp. 288, $39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8131-6723-7.

José Alberto Palma, Historia negra de la medicina: Sanguijuelas, lobotomías, sacamantecas u otros tratamientos absurdos, desagradables y terroríficos a lo largo de la historia (Madrid: Ciudadela Libros, 2016), pp. 208, €17.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-96836-09-9.

Paolo Ruffini and Ferdinando Taddei (eds), I consulti medici di Paolo Ruffini: Il carteggio Pasquali-Ruffini (Modena: STEM Mucchi, 2016), pp. 255, €17.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-7000-705-3.

Maite Barcons Reniu, La medicina tradicional i popular a la Catalunya del Nord (Canet-en-Roussillon: Trabucaire, 2016), pp. 142, €15.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-84974-230-3.

Claude Lecouteux, Le Livre des guérisons et des protections magiques (Paris: Imago, 2016), pp. 320, €23.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-84952-864-8.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.