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  • Books Received*
Hillel D. Braude. Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xxiv + 232 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-07166-4).
Birsen Bulmus. Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. vii + 195 pp. Ill. $105.00 (978-0-7486-4659-3).
Georges Canguihem. Writings on Medicine. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. ix + 103 pp. $20.00 (978-0-8232-3432-5).
Nitsan Chorev. The World Health Organization between North and South. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. ix + 273 pp. $45.00 (978-0-8014-5065-5).
Arón Cohen, ed. El trabajo y sus riesgos en la época contemporánea: conocimiento, codificación, intervención y gestión. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. 378 pp. Ill. €23.00 (978-84-9888-410-4).
Mary Ellen Condon-Rall. Attack on the Pentagon: The Medical Response to 9/11. Fort Detrick, Md.: Office of The Surgeon General, 2011. xlii + 210 pp. Ill. $29.00 (978-0-16-089186-1).
Ildikó Csepregi and Charles Burnett, eds. Ritual Healing: Magic, Ritual and Medical Therapy from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period. Micrologus’ Library 48. Florence: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. 221 pp. Ill. €45.00 (978-88-8450-443-2).
Dana G. Dalrymple. Artemisia annua, Artemisinin, ACTs & Malaria Control in Africa: Tradition, Science and Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2012. vi + 254 pp. Ill. $18.95 (978-0-615-61599-8).
Nicholas Everett. The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xviii + 445 pp. Ill. $36.95 (978-0-8020-9550-3).
Simon Finger. The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. xiv + 226 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-8014-4893-5). [End Page 699]
Henry French and Mark Rothery. Man’s Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660–1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. viii + 281 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-0-19-957669-2).
Joy V. Fuqua. Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 201 pp. Ill. $23.95 (978-0-8223-5126-9).
Juan Manuel Garrido. On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. xii + 133 pp. $22.00 (978-0-8232-3936-8).
David A. Gerber, ed. Disabled Veterans in History. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. xxiii + 384 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-472-03508-3).
Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez, Jorge Tomas Uribe Angel, Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso, and Jaime Bernal Villegas. Academia Mutisiana. Bogota: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2011. 325 pp. Ill. No price given. (978-958-716-490-9).
Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez and Jaime Bernal Villegas. Scientia Xaveriana: Los Jesuitas y el Desarrollo de la Ciencia en Colombia: Siglos XVI–XX. Bogota: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2012. 241 pp. Ill. No price given (ISBN 978-958-716-170-x).
Gabrielle Hecht. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012. xx + 451 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-262-01726-8).
Denise Hillard. Traite des Eaux Artificielles. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2012. 576 pp. Ill. $132.00 (978-2-600-01520-2).
History of Hansen’s Disease in Kumamoto, Japan. Koshi, Kumamoto, Japan: National Sanatorium Kikuchi Keifuen, 2011. iii + 127 pp. Ill. No price given.
Rose Holz. The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. xi + 226 pp. $80.00 (978-1-58046-399-7).
Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, eds. Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. vii + 342 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-5270-9).
Lucien Karhausen. The Bleeding of Mozart: A Medical Glance on His Life, Illnesses and Personality. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, 2011. xviii + 759 pp. No price given (978-1-4568-5077-7). [End Page 700]
Paul Kopperman, ed. “Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xiii...

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