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Volume 63 - July 2019

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Bob Van Hee and Maurits Biesbrouck, Tijdgenotem uit de leefwereld van Andreas Vesalius. Cahiers Geschiedenis van de Geneeskunde en Gezondheidszorg, Vol. 11 (Antwerp and Apeldoorn: Garant-Uitgevers n.v., 2018), pp. 212, €31,50, paperback, ISBN: 9789044-36432.

Joanna Radin, Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. 288, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780226417318.

William Green, Contraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine (New York: New York University Press, 2017), pp. ix + 322, $89, hardback, ISBN: 9781479876990.

Claire Trenery, Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. xi + 163, £115, hardback, ISBN: 9780815367451.

Londa Schiebinger, Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 234, $24.95, paperback, ISBN: 978150360291.

Mariana Saad, Cabanis. Comprendre l’homme pour changer le monde (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016), pp. 309, €37,00, hardback, ISBN: 9782406058038.

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John Z. Wee (ed.), The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco–Roman Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 418, €138.00, hardback, ISBN: 9789004356764.

Orly Lewis, Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2017), pp. 375, (‘Studies in Ancient Medicine’, 48), ISBN: 978-90-04-33742-8/978-90-04-33743-5.

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Janet Starkey, The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad: The Russells of Braidshaw in Aleppo and on the Coast of Coromandel (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), pp. xvi + 467, €118.00, hardback/e-book, ISBN: 978-90-04-36212-3/978-90-04-36213-0.

Matthew L. Newsom Kerr, Contagion, Isolation and Biopolitics in Victorian London (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. xvii + 370, £63.99, eBook, ISBN: 9783319657684.

Amy S. Patterson, Africa and Global Health Governance: Domestic Politics and International Structures (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. x + 240, $29.50, paperback, ISBN: 9781421424507.

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Janet Weston, Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. ix + 205, £85, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-3500-2109-9.

A. Woods, M. C. Bresalier, A. M. Cassidy and R. Mason Dentinger (eds), Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories (Manchester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xvii + 280, hardback/ebook, £20/open access, ISBN: 978-3-319-64337-3.

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