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Medical History , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 344 - 346
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Heather R. Perry, Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014), pp. 240, £70.00, $105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8924-4.

Londa Schiebinger (ed.), Women and Gender in Science and Technology: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1726, £760.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-85560-0.

David Hardiman, Missionaries and Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014), pp. 288, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-7802-6.

Markham J. Geller, Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East (Boston, MA: De Gruyter, 2014), pp. 100, $98.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-61451-775-7.

Megan J. Coyer and David Shuttleton (eds), Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014), pp. xi, 315, €70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-420-3891-2.

Neil Cronin, The Medical Profession and the Exercise of Power in Early Nineteenth-Century Cork (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014), pp. 74, €9.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84682-517-0.

Tanya S. Lenz, Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice: Exploring the Western Literary Tradition Through Chaucer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. x, 212, €70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-2-503-53481-7.

Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald (eds), Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers (London; New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 132, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-74579-6.

Frediano Sessi, Mano nera: esperimenti medici e resistenza nei lager nazisti (Venice: Marsilio, 2014), pp. 255, €17.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-317-1908-7.

Dora Wang and Shannan L. Carter, The Daily Practice of Compassion: A History of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Its People, and Its Mission, 1964–2014 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2014), pp. 336, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8263-5525-6.

Tim Carter, Merchant Seamen’s Health, 1860–1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014), pp. 234, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84383-952-1.

Jennifer Ryan, Lincoln C. Chen and Tony Saich, Philanthropy for Health in China (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014), pp. 314, $65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-253-01442-9.

Charles E. McClelland, Queen of the Professions: The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. 214, $70.00, £44.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4422-2630-2.

Michael E. Moran, Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History (New York: Springer, 2014), pp. xiv, 471, $239.00, €169.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4614-8195-9.

Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter (eds), Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine: Historical and Social Science Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 232, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-13-879490-0.

Sven Dupré, Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014), pp. xxiii, 200, €99.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-05064-5.

James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), pp. 304, $28.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6290-8.

Kara W. Swanson, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014). pp. 352, $35.00, £25.95, €31.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674l-28143-1.

Lee Scrivner, Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 272, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-26873-0.

Therese Jones, Delese Wear, Lester D. Friedman and Kathleen Pachucki, Health Humanities Reader (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014), pp. 448, $110.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6247-6.

Valérie Bonet, La Pharmacopée végétale d’Occident dans l’oeuvre de Pline l’Ancien (Brussels: Latomus, 2014), pp. 513, €73.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-87031-293-3.

Lise Dumasy and Hélène Spengler, Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la Révolution à nos jours, Volume III: Le Médecin entre savoirs et pouvoirs (Geneva: Droz, 2014), pp. 392, €46.78, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-600-01698-8.

Fabrice Brandli, Michel Porret, Flávio Borda d’Água, Sonia VernhesRappaz, Les Corps meurtris: Investigations judiciaires et expertises médico-légales au XVIIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014), pp. 394, €22.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7535-3375-2.

Ute Jutta Götz, Im Wettlauf gegen das Wechselfieber: Zur Geschichte der synthetischen Antimalariamittel (Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014), pp. 429, €24.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8047-3300-8.

Dirk Thomaschke, In der Gesellschaft der Gene: Räume und Subjekte der Humangenetik in Deutschland und Dänemark, 1950–1990 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014), pp. 396, €39.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-2813-5.

Julia Nebe, Kindersterblichkeit in der gesellschaftlichen Perzeption an der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert: Eine Analyse von ausgewählten Totenzetteln (Göttingen: Cuvillier, 2014), pp. 122, €20.40, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-95404-600-3.

Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England (London: Boydell & Brewer, 2014), pp. 225, £50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-86193-324-2.

Peter Wehling, Willy Viehöver and Sophia Koenen (eds), The Public Shaping of Medical Research: Patient Associations, Health Movements and Biomedicine (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 290, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-85823-6.

Morten Knudsen and Werner Vogd (eds), Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness: Observing Healthcare (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 240, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-13-879491-7.

Gerardo Martínez Hernández, La medicina en la Nueva España, siglos XVI y XVII: Consolidación de los modelos institucionales y académicos (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014), pp. 504, $500.00 MN, paperback, ISBN: 978-607-02-5168-9.

Anne Stobart and Susan Francia, Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine: From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 368, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4411-8418-4.

Charles M. Tipton, History of Exercise Physiology (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2014), pp. 608, $119.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7360-8369-0.

Jo Ann Scurlock, Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014), pp. 764, $104.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-58983-970-0.

Bruce K. Alexander and Curtis P. Shelton, A History of Psychology in Western Civilization (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 559, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-00729-1.

Teresa Ortiz and María Jesús Santesmases (eds), Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 260, £65.00, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5404-5.

Maria Pia Donato, Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 240, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-1873-9.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.