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Volume 60 - October 2016

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Digitisation, Big Data, and the Future of the Medical Humanities

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Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 240, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-03898-8.

Matthew M. Mesley and Louise E. Wilson (eds), Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100–1500 (Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2014), pp. 231, £20.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-907570-32-5.

Linda Palfreeman, Spain Bleeds: The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion during the Civil War (Brighton, Chicago, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2015), pp. xviii, 204, $64.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84519-717-9.

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Chris Millard, A History of Self-Harm in Britain. A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pix, 268, eBook, Open Access, ISBN: 978-1-137-52962-6.

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Lee K. Pennington, Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), pp. iix, 282, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8014-5257-4.

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Anna Shepherd, Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England, (London: Pickering & Chatto Limited, 2014), pp. x, 228, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-431-3. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, No.20.

Fernando Serrano Larráyoz, Léxico médico y farmacológico en lengua vulgar y latina de la documentación cortesana navarra (siglos XIV-XV) (Arre, Navarra: Pamiela, 2015), pp. 304, 21€, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-7681-910-4.

Sally Sheard, The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2014), pp. xv, 581, £40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-44731-484-4.

Marius Turda (ed.), The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900–1945. Sources and Commentaries (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 656, £85.50, hardback, ISBN: 9781472533562.

Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (ed.), Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. xv, 293, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781843844013.

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

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Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), pp. 380, $39.95, cloth, ISBN: 10987654321.

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