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AnnMarie Adams. Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943. Architecture, Landscape and American Culture Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxv + 169 pp. Ill. $82.50 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-8166-5113-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5113-9), $27.50 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-8166-5114-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5114-6).
Michelle Allen. Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. x + 225 pp. Ill. $55.00 (Cloth, ISBN-10: 0-8214-1770-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1770-6), $26.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-8214-1771-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1771-3).
Gerhard Aumüller, Kornelia Grundmann, and Christina Vanja, eds. Der Dienst Am Kranken: Krankenversorgung zwischen Caritas, Medizin und Okonomie vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit. Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen 68. Marburg, Germany: N. G. Elwert Verlag, 2007. xv + 383 pp. Ill. (978-3-7708-1315-5).
Josep L. Barona. José Chabás Bordehore (1877–1963): Tuberculosis Y Medicina Social en la Valencia del Primer Tercio del Siglo XX. Spain: Consell Valencià de Cultura, 2007. 270 pp. Ill. (paperbound, 978-84-482-4790-4).
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre. La Salut Pública Que No Va Poder Ser, José Estellés Salarich (1896–1990): Una Aportació Valenciana a la Sanitat Espanyola Contemporània. Valéncia, Spain: Consell Valencià de Cultura, 2007. 175 pp. Ill. (paperbound, 978-84-482-4779-9).
Helen Bömelburg. Der Arzt und sein Modell: Porträtfotografien aus der deutschen Psychiatrie 1880 bis 1933. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 238 pp. Ill. €38.00 (978-3-515-09069-8).
Alain Bottéro. Un Autre Regard Sur La Schizophrénie. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2008. 394 pp. Ill. €27.00 (paperbound, 978-2-7381-1997-1).
Sandra Cavallo. Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families and Masculinities. Gender in History. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2007. xii + 281 pp. Ill. $84.95 (978-0-7190-7662-6). [End Page 770]
Cynthia A. Connolly. Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xiii + 182 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-8135-4267-6).
François Delaporte. Anatomy of the Passions: Cultural Memory in the Present. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xv + 194 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 978-0-8047-5850-5), $24.95 (978-0-8047-5851-2).
Rolando F. del Maestro. A History of Neuro-Oncology. Montreal: McGill University, 2006. 143 pp. Ill. (0771706359).
Martin Dinges and Vincent Barras, eds. Krankheit in Briefen im deutschen und französischen Sprachraum. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 267 pp. Ill. €37.00 (paperbound, 978-3-515-08949-4).
Ian Dowbiggin. The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 262 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-0-19-518858-5).
Trudy Eden. The Early American Table: Food and Society in the New World. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. x + 193 pp. Ill. $37.00 (978-0-87580-383-8).
Sander L. Gilman. Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2008. xii + 308 pp. Ill. (ISBN-10: 0-415-97420-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97420-2).
Richard L. Golden, Charles S. Bryan, and John T. Golden. William Osler’s The Transatlantic Voice: A Philological Study. Osler Library Studies in the History of Medicine, Number 10. Montreal, Canada: McGill University, 2006. ix + 67 pp. Ill. (07717-0642-1).
Caroline Hannaway, ed. Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics. Biomedical and Health Research. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008. x + 377 pp. Ill. €130 (978-1-58603-832-8).
Larry G. Hansen and Larry W. Robertson, eds. PCBs: Human and Environmental Disposition and Toxicology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. v + 207 pp. Ill. $125.00 (ISBN-10: 0-252-03254-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03254-7).
Anne Harrington. The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. 336 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-393-06563-3).
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