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Volume 62 - October 2018

Book Review

Joel Peter Eigen, Mad-doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. 224, hardback, $40.00, ISBN: 978-1-4212-2048-6.

Alison D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Shechner and Paolo Brenni (eds), How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2017), History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. xxxii + 240, $150, hardback, ISBN: 9789004324923.

Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 268, $27.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781469632872.

Gayle Davis and Tracey Loughran (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xvii $+$ 663, £160.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781137520791.

Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), pp. xii + 192, $31.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781350009370.

Gilberto Hochman, The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889–1930 (Urbana, IL, Chicago, and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016), pp. xiv+152, $25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-252-08211-5.

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. ix+316, £88/£70, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-3-319-52886-1 / 978-3-319-52887-8.

Edward C. Atwater, Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. xii + 401, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781580465717.

Jennifer Tappan, The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017), pp. xx + 218, £26.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780821422465.

Andrew J. Hogan, Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. 280, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781421420745.

Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith and Ulrike Thoms Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017), pp. vii $+$ 230, £80/£19.99, hardback/ebook/ebook for handhelds, ISBN: 9781580465762 / 9781782049197 / 9781782049296.

Deborah Dolan Hunt, Fast Facts About the Nursing Profession: Historical Perspectives in a Nutshell (New York: Springer, 2017), pp. xvii + 154, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8261-3138-6.

Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 254, £80, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-1-580-46568-7/978-1-782-04849-7.

Robert Marshall and Alan Bleakley, Rejuvenating Medical Education: Seeking Help from Homer (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), pp. 325, £68.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781443895644.

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. 288, $55.00/£41.50, hardback, ISBN: 9780226110295.

Hyung Wook Park, Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–60 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), pp. viii, +342, $49.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8229-4449-2.

Faith C. S. Ho, Western Medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 230, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789888390946.

Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), pp. xi-331, £29.99, hardback, ISBN: 9780773549951.

Ishizuka Hisao, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 276, illus., $99,99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-349-93268-9.

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