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Medical History , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 264 - 265
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© The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

1 October 2017–31 December 2017

Ashley, Susan A., “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. 312, £84.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781350013414.

Atwater, Edward C., Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 418, £25, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465717.

Biernoff, Suzannah, Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 244, $70, hardback, ISBN: 9780472130290.

Casper, Stephen T., and Delia Gavrus (eds), The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017), pp. 318, £90/£0, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9781580465953/9781787440159.

Day, Carolyn A., Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. 208, $28.76, paperback, ISBN: 9781350009400.

Dwyer, Michael, Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2017), pp. 224, £75, hardback, ISBN: 9781786940469.

Evans, Bonnie, The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 512, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780719095924.

Gere, Cathy, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. 304, $30/$18, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226501857/9780226501994.

Hanley, Anne R., Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xiii $+$ 318, €74.96/€96.29, ebook/hardback, ISBN: 9783319324555/9783319324548.

Ho, Faith C. S., Western Medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, HK$360/US$50, hardback, ISBN: 9789888390946.

Hogarth, Rana A., Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. 290, $27.95/$90/$19.99, paperback/hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9781469632872/9781469632865/ 9781469632889.

Kushner, Howard I., On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. 216, $26.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423333.

Lachenal, Guillaume, The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa, translated by Noémi Tousignant (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423234.

Löwy, Ilana, Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), pp. 296, £33.50, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423630.

Montgomery, Adam, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017), pp. 352, £31.46, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780773549951.

Plemons, Eric, The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 208, $84.95/$23.95, hardback/paperback, ISBN: 9780822-68861/9780822369141.

Radin, Joanna, Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017), $40, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226417318/9780226448244.

Schiebinger, Londa, Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), pp. 256, $24.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781503602915.

Suh, Soyoung, Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), pp. 244, $39.95/£31.95/€36.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780674976962.

Tappan, Jennifer, The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017), pp. 238, $32.95/ $79.95 paperback/hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2246-5/978-0-8214-2245-8.

Thießen, Malte, Immunisierte Gesellschaft: Impfen in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), pp. 400, €70.00/€59.99, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9783525370537.

Wee, John Z. (ed), The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine (Leiden: Brill, 2017), €138/€125, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9789004356764/9789004356771.

William Green, Contraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine (New York: New York University Press, 2017), pp. 336, $30, paperback, ISBN: 9781479836987.