Books Received

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti. Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 238 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-0-19958-458-1).

Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller, eds. Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. viii + 315 pp. $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4979-2), $89.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4964-8).

Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen, and Karen Oslund, eds. Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies Series no. 12. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. xiv + 337 pp. $29.95 (978-0-89680-282-7).

Ronald E. Batt. A History of Endometriosis. London: Springer-Verlag, 2011. xxv + 226 pp. $139.00 (978-0-85729-584-2).

Elisa M. Becker. Medicine, Law and the State in Imperial Russia. New York: Central European University Press, 2011. x + 399 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-963-9776-81-4).

Jeffrey P. Bishop. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying. Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. xv + 411 pp. $35.00 (978-0-268-02227-3).

Marco Bresadola. Luigi Galvani: Devozione, scienza e rivoluzione. Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2011. 318 pp. Ill. €15.00 (978-88-7794-731-4).

Michael Brown. Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760–1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. viii + 254 pp. $95.00 (978-0-7190-7797-5).

Patricia Ann Clark. A Cretan Healer’s Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition: Text, Translation and Commentary. Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. xvii + 301 pp. Ill. $119.95 (978-0-7546-6101-6).

Martin Dinges and Robert Jutte, eds. The Transmission of Health Practices (c. 1500 to 2000). Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 190 pp. Ill. $53.00 (978-3-515-09897-7).

Helen Dingwall, David Hamilton, Iain Macintyre, Morrice McCrae, and David Wright, eds. Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History. Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2011. xviii + 286 pp. Ill. £30.00 (978-1-78027-018-0).

Ian Dowbiggin. The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x + 248 pp. Ill. $24.99 (978-0-521-68868-0).

Alyshia Galvez. Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-Weight Paradox. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. xiv + 213 pp. $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-5142-5), $72.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-5141-8).

Jay Geller. The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xiv + 510 pp. Ill. $35.00 (paperbound, 978-0-8232-3362-5), $99.00 (cloth, 978-0-8232-3361-8).

Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyer, eds. Henri Atlan: Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism. Forms of Living. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xvi + 462 pp. Ill. $35.00 (paperbound, 978-0-8232-3182-9), $125.00 (cloth, 978-0-8232-3181-2).

Robert L. Grubb, Jr. Neurosurgery at Washington University: A Century of Excellence. St. Louis, Mo.: Washington University, 2011. 442 pp. Ill. $59.95 (978-0-615-48031-2).

Peter J. Grund. “Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite”: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock’s Treatise on Alchemy. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. xii + 350 pp. $72.00 (978-0-86698-415-7).

Marta E. Hanson. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China. Needham Research Institute Series. London: Routledge, 2011. xx + 265 pp. (978-0-415-60253-2).

Sandra Harding, ed. The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xvi + 476 pp. $29.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4957-0), $99.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4936-5).

Lisa M. Hermsen. Manic Minds: Mania’s Mad History and Its Neuro-Future. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. xiii + 154 pp. Ill. $23.95...