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Medical History , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 606 - 608
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© The Author 2016. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Howard Y.F. Choy (ed.), Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 278, €115.00, $138.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-31920-2.

Siegfried Weichlein and Linda Ratschiller (eds), Der schwarze Körper als Missionsgebiet Medizin, Ethnologie, Theologie in Afrika und Europa 1880–1960 (Köln: Böhlau Köln, 2015), pp. 224, €35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-412-50166-2.

Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Karin Friedrich Duncan (eds.), Liddel (1561–1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. i-xiv $+$ 316, €135.00, $175.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-31065-0.

Irmtraut Sahmland and Hans-Jürgen Schrader (eds.), Medizin- und kulturgeschichtliche Konnexe des Pietismus: Heilkunst und Ethik, arkane Traditionen, Musik, Literatur und Sprache (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), pp. 428, €90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-525-55844-7.

Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Historia de la psiquiatría: De sus orígenes, sus fracasos y su resurgimiento (Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2016), pp. 368, €22.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-666-5831-7.

J.C. McKeown and Joshua M. Smith, The Hippocrates Code: Unraveling the Ancient Mysteries of Modern Medical Terminology (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016), pp. 400, $50.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-62466-464-9.

Mark Häberlein and Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein, Adalbert Friedrich Marcus (1753–1816): Ein Bamberger Arzt zwischen aufgeklärten Reformen und romantischer Medizin (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016), pp. 454, €48.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-95650-134-0.

Laurence Monnais, Médecine(s) et santé: une petite histoire globale, 19e-20e siécles (Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016), pp. 258, C$34.95, €31.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7606-3638-5.

Mary Kaplan, The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and Its Black Physicians: The Early Years (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), pp. 160, $29.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4766-6298-5.

Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg and Evan R. Ragland (eds), Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), pp. i-x $+$ 372, $129.00, hardback, ISBN 978-94-017-7352-2.

Nancy Tomes, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), pp. 560, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4696-2277-4.

Thomas Köhler, Freud-Bashing: Vom Wert und Unwert der Anti-Freud-Literatur (Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2016), pp. 227, €29.90, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8379-2503-6.

Paul Dhillon, The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors (Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2016), pp. 238, $21.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88977-431-5.

Randall M. Packard, A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples (Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. 432, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-2033-2.

David Barton Smith, The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care System (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016), pp. 256, $27.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8265-2107-1.

Ian Howie-Willis, Unending War: The Australian Army’s Struggle against Malaria 1885–2015 (Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2016), pp. 416, $34.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-92527-572-8.

Ralph McCready, Gopinath Gnanasegaran and Jamshed B. Bomanji (eds), A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK: 50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society (Cham, ZG: Springer; London: BNMS, 2016), pp. 152, £44.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-28623-5.

Eleanor Sian Decamp, Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England: Performing Barbery and Surgery (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. i-xii $+$ 277, $95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-47155-0.

Louis Arbus, La médecine légale à Toulouse: Origines et évolutions (Toulouse: Éditions Privat, 2016), pp. 240, €24.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7089-1786-6.

Stephen E. Mawdsley, Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), pp. 210, $54.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-7439-4.

Rob Boddice, Pain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 144, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-873856-5.

James Wilberding, Forms, Souls and Embryos. Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 242, $140.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-95527-1.

Erika Wright, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016), pp. 240, $79.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2224-3.

Thomas A. Apel, Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016), pp. 208, $60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8047-9740-5.

Galen, Ian Johnston (ed.), On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine. The Art of Medicine. A Method of Medicine to Glaucon, Loeb Classical Library 523 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 656, $26.00, £16.95, €21.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-99700-4.

Bernard Guiraud-Chaumeil, Ils ont inventé la médecine: Gardons-lui son humanité (Neuilly-sur-Seine: Michel Lafon, 2016), pp. 332, €17.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7499-2953-8.

Maria Chironna, Medici o ciarlatani?: l’omeopatia nel Regno delle Due Sicilie, dal 1822 al 1860 (Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2016), pp. 224, €26.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-917-0984-4.

Daniel Laforest, Guy Clermont and Bertrand Rouby (eds), Lire le corps biomédical: regards sur la littérature canadienne/Reading the Biomedical Body: From the Perspective of Canadian Literature (Limoges, France: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2016), pp. 163, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-84287-684-5.

Hyung Wook Park, Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–1960 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), pp. 352, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8229-4449-2.

Patrice Pinet, La fondation secréte de l’homéopathie: réseaux francs-maçons et théories médicales de 1750 à 1810 (Lyon: Jacques André éditeur, 2016), pp. 378, €35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7570-0296-4.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.