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Volume 60 - October 2016

Book Review

Valeria Finucci, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 273, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-72545-4.

Catharine Coleborne, Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. xiv, 224, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8724-0.

Mary de Young, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750–1950s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), pp. vi, 368, $55, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-6897-3.

Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization and the Politics of Choice (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2013), pp. xi, 304, $29.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4426-1255-6.

Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton (eds), Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014), pp. v–xi, 315, $98.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-420-3891-2.

Matthis Krischel, Urologie und Nationalsozialismus. Eine Studie zu Medizin und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014), pp. 220, €39.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10849-2.

Francesca Di Marco, Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. xviii, 198, $155.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-93776-5.

Margaret Humphreys, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. xiv, 385, $34.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421409993.

Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 249, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1430-2.

Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. vii + 306, $29.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-107-63301-8.

Graham Mooney, Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840–1914 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015), pp. 292, £80.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465274.

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 298, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-4828-6. The History of Medicine in Context.

Matthew Heaton, Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2013), pp. 288, $32.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2070-6.

Esther Diana, Santa Maria Nuova: Ospedale dei Fiorentini: Architettura ed assistenza nella Firenze tra Settecento e Novecento (Florence: Edizioni Polistampa, 2012), pp. 629, €90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-88-596-1048-9.

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

Katharine Hodgkin (ed.), Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500–1750: Contemporary Editions (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. x, 290, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-3018-0.

Kara W. Swanson, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. i, 333, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0674281431.

David Anthony Forrester, Nursing’s Greatest Leaders: A History of Activism (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. xix, 293, $65.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8261-3007-5.

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