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Medical History , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 613 - 614
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Angus McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain, California/Milbank Series on Health and the Public (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2012), pp. 248, $55, cloth, ISBN: 978-0-2265-6069-4.

Dominique Tobbell, Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012), pp. 310, $26.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-520-27114-2.

Ole Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Jon Arrizbalaga (eds), Centres of Medical Excellence? Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789, The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012), pp. xiii 335, £60, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6699-8.

Barend Haeseker, ‘Vileine Hippocraten’: Geneeskunde in Dichtvorm Door Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) (Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2012), pp. 222, EUR 34.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-90-5235-203-9.

Deborah Neill, Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty 1890–1930 (Stanford, 2012), pp. xiii 292, $65, cloth, ISBN: 978-08-047-7813-8.

Ida Blom, Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, 1870–1995 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2012), pp. 192, $45.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-91-85509-73-7.

Niklas Thode Jensen, For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine, and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803–1848 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012), pp. ix 343, $70, paperback, ISBN: 978-87-63531-71-9.

Sandhya Polu, Infectious Disease in India, 1892–1940: Policy Making and the Perception of Risk, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. x 227, $85, cloth, ISBN: 978-0-230-35460-9.

Rachel Boaz, In Search of ‘Aryan Blood’ Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany. CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine (Budapest: CEU Press, 2012), pp. 256, $50/EUR45, cloth, ISBN: 978-963-9776-50-0.

David Hamilton, A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. 576, $65, cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8229-4413-3.

Hillel Braude, Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defence of Clinical Reasoning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. xxiv 232, $45, cloth, ISBN: 978-0-2260-7166-4.

Howard Padwa, Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821–1926 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. 248, $55, cloth, ISBN: 978-1421404202.

Donald Barr, Questioning the Premedical Paradigm: Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century after the Flexner Report (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. 240, $39.20, cloth, ISBN: 978-0801894169.

Denise Hillard, Traite des Eaux Artificielles, Droz–Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance (Geneve: Droz, 2012), pp. 568, $132, paper, ISBN: 978-2-600-01520-2.

Thomas Dormandy, Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 352, £25, cloth, ISBN: 978-0-3001-7532-5.

Jane Buikstra and Charlotte Roberts, The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 816, $175, cloth, ISBN: 978-0195389807.

George Dehner, Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 352, $27.95, paper, ISBN: 978-0822961895.

Mervyn Eadie, Headache Through the Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 336, $69.99, cloth, ISBN: 978-0199860975.

Geertje Mak, Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories (Manchester: Manchester Universtiy Press, 2012), pp. 320, $105, cloth, ISBN: 978-0719086908.

Stephen Jacyna and Stephen Casper, The Neurological Patient in History (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012), pp. 274, $68.81, cloth, ISBN: 978-1580464123.

Miguel Garcia-Sancho, Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945–2000, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 256, $85, cloth, ISBN: 978-0230250321.

Jane Lawrence and Robert Tattersall, Diabetes, Insulin, and the Life of RD Lawrence (Abingdon: The Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2012), pp. 240, £25, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85315-969-5.

Caroline McCracken-Flesher, The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 288, $54.90, hardback, ISBN: 978-0199766826.

Florian Mildenberger, Medikale Subkulturen in der Bundesrepublic Deutschland und ihre Gegner (1950–1990) (Fritz Steiner Verlag, 2012), pp. 188, $54, hardback, ISBN: 978-3515100410.