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  • Books Received*

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* The Bulletin reserves freedom of decision as to the publications to be included in this section. Items received, other than those reviewed, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine.

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Le monde végétal: médecine, botanique, symbolique. Micrologus' Library 30. Florence: Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009. x + 498 pp. €77.00 (978-88-8450-330-5).
Donald A. Barr. Questioning the Premedical Paradigm: Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century after the Flexner Report. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii + 226 pp. Ill. $50.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9416-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9416-9).
A. W. Bates. The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. East Sussex, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. ix + 240 pp. Ill. $79.95 (978-1-84519-381-2).
Daniel E. Bender. American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 329 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-8014-4598-9).
Stuart Blume. The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010. 208 pp. $72.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-4659-9), $25.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-4660-5).
Frank Boulton. Still Counting: The Life, Times and Continuing Influence of Dr. Thomas Addis MD, 1881–1949. York, U.K.: Sessions of York, 2010. ix + 303 pp. Ill. £14.90 (978-1-85072-403-2).
Martin Clayton and Ron Philo. Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010. 160 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-60606-020-9).
Mario Coluzzi, Gabriel Gachelin, Anne Hardy, and Annick Opinel, eds. Parassitologia: Insects and Illnesses: Contributions to the History of Medical Entomology. A Conference in three Sessions: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, April 2005; Institut Pasteur, Paris, April 2006; Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, October 2007. San Giustino, Italy: Lombardo Editore, 2008. 330 pp. Ill. [End Page 544]
Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys, eds. Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. viii + 243 pp. Ill. $85.00 (cloth, 978-0-7735-3600-5), $29.95 (paperbound, 978-0-7735-3601-2).
Ann Crichton-Harris. Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xx + 428 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-90-04-17541-9).
Greg Eghigian, ed. From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xiv + 456 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-0-8135-4666-7).
Ken Eisold. What You Don't Know You Know: Our Hidden Motives in Life, Business, and Everything Else. New York: Other Press, 2009. 264 pp. $23.95 (978-1-59051-261-6).
Daniel M. Fox. The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xii + 168 pp. $29.95 (978-0-520-26238-6).
Zachary B. Friedenberg. Surgery over the Centuries. London: Janus Publishing, 2009. ix + 241 pp. Ill. £12.95 (978-1-85756-669-7).
Monica H. Green. Trotula: Un compendio medievale di medicina delle donne. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola MedicaSalernitana, 4. Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009. 427 pp. Ill. €52.00 (978-88-8450-336-7).
Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones, and Helen Sweet, eds. From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the West. New Perspectives in South Asian History 27. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2009. x + 489 Ill. $36.05 (978-81-250-3702-6).
Friedrich Hoffmann. Differenza tra la dottrina di Stahl e la mia in patologia e terapia: Introduzione, traduzione e note di Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2009. 291 pp. €18.00 (978-88-8492-643-2).

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