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Medical History , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 526 - 527
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© The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press. 

Received 1 April 2018–30 June 2018

Katie Batza, Before Aids: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. 192, £35, paperback, ISBN: 9780812250138.

Isabel Blázquez Ornat, El Praticante : el nacimiento de una nueva profesión sanitaria en España, Estudios sobre la ciencia, vol. 70 (Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2017), pp. 468, €32.69, hardback, ISBN: 9788400103040.

Christian Bonah, David Cantor and Anja Laukötter (eds), Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018), pp. 380, £80, hardback, ISBN: 9781580469166.

Pierre Yves Donzé, Making Medicine a Business. X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System 1895–1945 (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. xiv $+$ 199, £99.99/£79.50, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9789811081583/9789811081590.

R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella (eds), Andreas Vesalius and the ‘Fabrica’ in the Age of Printing. Art, Anatomy, and Printing in the Italian Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 325, €100, hardback, ISBN: 9782503576237.

Samuel K. Cohn, Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 656, £95, hardback, ISBN: 9780198819660.

Raymond Downing, Such a Time of It They Had: Global Health Pioneers in Africa (Nairobi: Manqa Books, 2018), pp. 350, $12.63, paperback, ISBN: 9789966736055.

William H. Foege, The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC (Baltimore, ML: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. 280, $24.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421425290.

E. Gielen and M. Goyens (eds), Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and Beyond (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 475, €110, hardback, ISBN: 9782503579146.

Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama (eds), Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018), pp. 328, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789888390908.

Shelley McKellar, Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology (Baltimore, ML: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. 376, $54.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421423555.

Patrick Manning and Mat Savelli (eds), Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980: Landscapes of Disease (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. 328, $45, hardback, ISBN: 9780822945277.

Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2018), pp. 272, $30.00, paperback, ISBN: 9780226546087.

Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble, The People’s Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s (Pietermaritzburg: Natal Society Foundation, 2017), pp. 241, R160.00/open access, paperback/ebook, ISBN: 9780992176693.

Amy S. Patterson, Africa and Global Health Governance: Domestic Politics and International Structures (Baltimore, ML: John Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. 264, $39.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781421424507.

L. Lewis Wall, Tears for My Sisters: The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula (Baltimore, ML: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. 376, $35.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421424170.