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Volume 57 - January 2013

Book Review

Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 207, $49.95, ISBN: 978-0-8214-1990-8.

Charlotte E. Henze, Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia, BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), 232 pages, $158.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-54794-9.

Ida Blom, Medicine, Morality and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870–c. 1995 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2012), pp. 192, £26.95, paperback, ISBN: 9789185509737.

Peter Mansfield, The Long Road to Stockholm: The Story of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. X, 241, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-966454.

James O’Brien, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science & Forensics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xx + 175, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19979496-6.

Niklas Thode Jensen, For the Health of the Enslaved; Slaves, Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803–1848 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2012), pp. 352, $69.00, paperback, ISBN: 9788763531719.

Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 424, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780226428918.

Bradley Lewis, Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xv, 214, $50.00, hardback (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8018-9902-7.

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Sandhya L. Polu, Infectious Disease in India, 1892–1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 229, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780230354609.

Howard Padwa, Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821–1926 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. 248, $55.00, hardcover, ISBN: 9781421404202.

Annette F. Timm, The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth Century Berlin (Cambridge: Camrbridge University Press, 2010), 374 pages, $99, hardcover, ISBN: 9780521195393.

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Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. xvii, 331, $45.00, hardback, ISBN 13;978-0-226-46529-6.

Mark Jackson, The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 311, £35, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-958862-6.

C. Promitzer, S. Troumpeta and M. Turda, Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945 (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. vii, 466, $50.00, hardback, ISBN: 9789639776821.

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Wellcome Library Moving Image and Sound Collection, (http://wellcomelibrary.org/about-us/about-the-collections/moving-image-and-sound-collection/)

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Hillel D. Braude, Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 256 pages, $45.00, cloth, ISBN: 978-0226-07166-4.

Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard (eds), Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. x + 244, £50.88, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-02800-5.

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