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Medical History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 413 - 414
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Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller (eds), Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. vi + 314, $24.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8223-4979-2.

Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton, The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), p. 256, $50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-74936-5.

Elisa M. Becker, Medicine, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia (Budapest, New York: Central European Press, 2011), pp. x + 399, $45, hardback, ISBN: 978-9-639-77681-4.

Allan Beveridge, Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing: 1927/60, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xix + 350, $79.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-958357-7.

Glen M. Cooper, Galen, De Diebus Decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic: A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Kitab Ayyam al-buhran, Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), pp. xx + 615, £70.00, $134.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-5634-0.

Martin Dinges and Robert Jutte (eds), The Transmission of Health Practices (c. 1500–2000) Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte - Beihefte (MEDGG-B (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011), pp. 190, $53, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09897-7.

Helen Dingwall, David Hamilton, Iain Macintyre, Morrice McCrae and David Wright, Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History (Glasgow: Birlinn), pp. xviii + 286, £30, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-7802-7018-0.

Duana Fullwiley, The Encultured Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 340, $35, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-691-12317-2.

Robert L. Grubb, Jr., Neurosurgery at Washington University: A Century of Excellence (St. Louis, MO: Washington University, 2011), p. 442, 15.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-615-48301-2.

Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden, Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–99, The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), pp. xiv + 219, £65.00, $119.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-2313-3.

Sally Smith Hughes, Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech, Synthesis (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. xv + 213, £16.00, $25.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-35918-2.

Lucien Karhausen, The Bleeding of Mozart: A Medical Glance at His Life, Illnesses, and Personality (London: Xlibris, 2011), pp. viii + 759, $35, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4568-5077-7.

Cynthia Klestinec, Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xix + 257, $28.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0142-3.

David N. Louis and Robert H. Young (eds) , Keen Minds to Explore the Dark Continents of Disease: A History of the Pathology Services at the Massacusetts General Hospital (Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital, 2011), pp. 411, $35, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-615-48638-3.

Richard Noll, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), p. 395, $45, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-04739-6.

Caroline Overy, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey, History of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine (London: Queen Mary, University of London, 2011), pp. 91, $10, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-90223-874-9.

John Parascandola, Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, Variorum (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 342, $149.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-1976-1.

Stephen Pemberton, The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xviii + 377, $50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0115-7.

John T.E. Richardson, Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. $352, $55, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-231-14168.

Ortun Riha and Thomas Schmuck, “Das Allgemeiste Gesetz”: Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) und die grossen Diskurse des 19. Jahrhunderts (Frankfurt: Shaker Verlag, 2011), pp. 299, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-8440-0384-0.

Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodelian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxxvi + 896, $299, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-951358-1.

Laura Stark, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 227, $27.5, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-226-77087-1.

Nancy Stepan, Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forerver? (London: Reaktion Books, 2011), pp. 309, $35, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-861-6.

Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. xiv + 496, $29, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-226-80347-3.

Jennifer C. Vaught (ed), Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), pp. xiii + 243, $99.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6948-7.

Fernando Vidal, The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. xiv + 413, $55, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-85586-8.

Alun Withey, Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine, and Carein Wales, 1600-1750 (Manchester: Manchester Universtiy Press, 2011), pp. xii + 240, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8546-8.