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Volume 60 - October 2016

Book Review

David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800 (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. x, 249, £19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4725-3497-2.

Mark Honigsbaum, A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830–1920 (London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014), pp. x + 313, £62.00/$95.00, ISBN: 9781780764788.

C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (Singapore: NUS Press, 2015), pp. xix, 179, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-9971-69-835-5.

Mark Jackson (ed.), Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85 (London, UK: Pickering & Chatto Ltd., 2015), pp. ix + 253, £95.00, hardback, ISBN: 978 1 84893 473 3.

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Dana Simmons, Vital Minimum: Need, Science & Politics in Modern France (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 243, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 13:978-0-226-25156-1.

Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago, IL; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 296, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-28820-8.

Emm Barnes Johnstone with Joanna Baines, The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer: Clinical and Cultural Visions since 1940 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. ix, 236, £60, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4039-8801-0

Matthew Smith, Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. 280, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-231-16484-9.

Cathy Hannabach, Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. viii, 153, $67.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-58158-7.

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Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. x, 382, $35, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-16988-0.

Raúl Necochea López, A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xii, 234, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4696-1808-1.

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Mary Hunter, The Face of Medicine. Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. vi, 266, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9757-7.

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Robert Leigh, On Theriac to Piso, Attributed to Galen. A critical edition with translation and commentary, Studies in Ancient Medicine 47 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), pp. viii, 326, €126.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-30289-1; e-book, ISBN: 978-90-04-30690-5.

George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (New York and London: Norton, 2015), pp. xvi, 656, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-393-05965-6.

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