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  • Books Received*
Liberty Walther Barnes. Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. xv + 211 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-43991-042-9).
Christina Juris Bennett. TennCare, One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. xii + 241 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-8265-2003-6).
Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti. Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications USA, 2014. xv + 280 pp. Ill. $47.96 (0-88135-495-3)
Carol R. Byerly. “Good Tuberculosis Men”: The Army Medical Department’s Struggle with Tuberculosis. Fort Sam Houston, TX: Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, 2013. xxviii + 340 pp. Ill. No price given (978-0-16-092198-8).
Enrique Chaves-Carballo. American Medicine and the Panama Canal: Proceedings of the Canal Zone Medical Association. Abstracts and Annotated Bibliography (1908–1927). Morgan Hill, Calif: Bookstand Publishing, 2014. xx + 436 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-61863-685-0).
Howard Chiang, ed. Psychiatry and Chinese History. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, no. 21. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xiii + 279 pp. Ill. $99.00 (9781848934382).
Rachel Hope Cleves. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marraige in Early America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xix + 267 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-19-933542-8).
Laura Dawes. Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 305 pp. $45.00 (978-0-674-28144-8).
Barry M. Doyle. The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 19. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xi +297 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-84893-433-7). [End Page 767]
Susan Francia and Anne Stobart, eds. Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine: From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xv + 349 pp. Ill. $120.00 (978-1-4411-8418-4).
Eugene Garriott and William Raikhel, eds. Addiction Trajectories. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. 338 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-5364-5).
Cristiana Giordano. Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemorary Italy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xiv + 288 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-520-27666-6).
Jeremy A. Greene. Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xii + 354 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-14214-1499-5).
John S. Haller, Jr. Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxix + 255 pp. $35.00 (978-0-231-16904-2).
Christopher Hamlin. More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever. Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xii + 383 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-1-4214-1502-4).
Salmaan Keshavjee. Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xxxviii + 240 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-28284-1).
Kenneth M. Ludmerer. Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvii + 431 pp. $34.95 (978-0-19-974454-1)
Krista Maglen. The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014. x + 240 pp. Ill. $100.00 (978-0-71908-965-7).
Jose R. Jouve Martin. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xxvii + 209 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-7735-4341-6).
Elizabeth W. Mellyn. Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 290 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-8122-4612-4).
Alex M. Nading. Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xvi + 269 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-28262-9). [End Page 768]
Marilyn Nicoud. Les prince et les médecins: Pensée et pratiques médicales à Milan (1402–1476). Collection de l’École française de Rome, 488. Rome: École française de Rome, 2014. xi + 804 pp. Ill. €59.00 (978...

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