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Medical History , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 471 - 473
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© The Author 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Megan J. Coyer, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), pp. 256, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4744-0560-7.

Sonja Brentjes, Taner Edis and Lutz Richter-Bernburg (eds), 1001 Distortions: How (Not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016), pp. 278, €38.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-95650-169-2.

Susan C. Lawrence, Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), pp. 188, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8135-7436-3.

Sarah Glassford, Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross (Montreal, Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), pp. 408, C$39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7735-4775-9.

Giuseppe Pitrè, Medici, chirurgi, barbieri e speziali antichi in Sicilia: Secoli XIII–XVIII: Curiosità, storiche e altri scritti (Palermo: Nuova Ipsa, 2016), pp. xxii, 285, €25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-7676-647-3.

Massimo Fioranelli and Maria Grazia Roccia, Medici eretici: La millenaria rivolta contro il pensiero omologato (Rome: Laterza, 2016), pp. 148, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-581-2632-5.

Wolfgang Hach and Viola Hach-Wunderle, Von Monstern, Pest und Syphilis Medizingeschichte in fünf Jahrhunderten (Stuttgart: Schattauer, 2016), pp. 264, €19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-7945-3210-0.

Salvatore Speziale, Il contagio del contagio: Circolazione di saperi e sfide bioetiche tra Africa ed Europa dalla peste nera all’AIDS (Reggio Calabria: Città del sole, 2016), pp. 712, €24.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-7351-966-9.

Hisao Ishizuka, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xxiv, 276, $99.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-58092-4.

Laetitia Dion, Adeline Gargam, Nathalie Grande and Marie-Élisabeth Henneau (eds), Enfanter dans la France d’Ancien Régime (Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2017), pp. 236, €18.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-84832-270-4.

Wendy Simonds, Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 262, $160.00, £100.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-415-74807-0.

Jane Draycott and Emma-Jayne Graham (eds), Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 272, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-5080-7.

Alice Kuzniar, Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), pp. 240, C$65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4875-0117-4.

Heiner Fangerau, Sascha Topp and Klaus Schepker (eds), Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit: Zur Geschichte ihrer Konsolidierung (Berlin: Springer, 2017), pp. xi, 634, €39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-662-49805-7.

Jana Madlen Schütte, Medizin im Konflikt: Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen Universitätsstädten des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), pp. 416, €156.00, $187.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-33158-7.

Indrani Sen, Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, c.1820–1930 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 240, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8962-6.

Michael J. Aminoff, Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 264, £38.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-061496-6.

Deborah Dolan Hunt, Fast Facts About the Nursing Profession: Historical Perspectives in a Nutshell (New York: Springer, 2017), pp. 240, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8261-3138-6.

Zohar Amar and Efraim Levy, Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), pp. 296, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7486-9781-6.

George Campbell Gosling, Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918–48 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 240, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1432-7.

David Durnin and Ian Miller (eds), Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict, 1914–45 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 240, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9785-0.

S. L. Kotar and J. E. Gessler, Yellow Fever: A Worldwide History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017), pp. 456, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-7919-1.

Fiona Reid, Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. 280, $26.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4725-1324-3.

Irene Poczka, Die Regierung der Gesundheit: Fragmente einer Genealogie liberaler Gouvernementalität (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017), pp. 462, €49.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-3695-6.

Albrecht Classen (ed.), Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Explorations of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. vii, 615, €129.95, $149.99, £106.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-11-052329-4.

Frances R. Frankenburg (ed.), Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017), pp. 322, $89.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-61069-897-9.

Peter Hobbins, Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 216, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-0144-0.

Mechthild Fend, Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650–1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 352, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8796-7.

A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner and Paolo Brenni (eds), How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. xxxii, 240, €125.00, $150.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-32492-3.

Trevor Levere, Larry Stewart, Hugh Torrens and Joseph Wachelder, The Enlightenment of  Thomas Beddoes: Science, Medicine, and Reform (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 264, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-8829-9.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.