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  • Books Received*
Sabine Arnaud. On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xi + 351 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-226-27554-3).
Robert Aronowitz. Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 278 pp. $26.00 (978-0-226-04971-7).
Marc A. Asher. Dogged Persistence: Harrington, Post-polio Scoliosis, and the Origin of Spine Instrumentation. Kansas City: Chandler Lake Books, 2015. xx + 395 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-1-943338-01-6).
Donald A. Barr. Introduction to Biosocial Medicine: The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xv + 193 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-1-4214-1860).
Victoria Bates. Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ix + 202 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-1-13744-170-6).
Thomas G. Benedek. Rheumatism: Its History from Paleo-Pathology to the Advent of Experimental Science. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2015. x + 169 pp. $135.00 (978-1-63482-712-6).
Carin Berkowitz. Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 227 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-28039-4).
Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann, eds. Maimonides: On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition. Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2014. xxvi + 123 pp. $89.00 (978-0-8425-2837-5).
Stephen Brogan. The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine and Sin. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewster, 2015. xii + 265 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-0-86193-337-2).
Mara Buchbinder. All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xv + 233 pp. $34.95 (978-0-520-28521-7). [End Page 187]
Carlo Caduff. The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xvi + 254 pp. $29.95 Ill. (978-0-5202-8409-8).
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Storia della definizione di morte. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2014. 686 pp. Ill. €55.00 (978-8820-4750-4-8).
Shari L. Dworkin. Men at Risk: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and HIV Prevention. New York: New York University Press, 2015. viii + 231 pp. $28.00 (978-0-8147-2076-9).
Greg Eghigian. The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 291 pp. Ill. $70.00 (978-0-472-11965-3).
Ricardo Pou Ferrari. Alfredo Navarro: Maestro de la Cirugia Uruguaya. Montevideo: Plus Ultra Ediciones, 2015. 447 pp. Ill.
Martha Few. For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. x + 292 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-8165-3187-5).
Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Muller-Wille, and Edmund Ramsden, eds. Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xviii + 302 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-8489-3426-9).
Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala. Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940: The Forgotten History. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 266 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-1-13744-052-5).
Elizabeth Hallam. Designing Bodies: Models of Human Anatomy from Wax to Plastics. London: Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2015. 239 pp. Ill. (978-1-904096-25-2).
John D. Hamilton. The History of Infectious Diseases at Duke University in the Twentieth Century. Lulu Publishing Services, 2015. xv + 323 pp. Ill. $39.99 (978-1-4834-2376-0).
Guy R. Hasegawa. Villainous Compounds: Chemical Weapons and the American Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. xiv + 182 pp. Ill. $29.50 (978-0-8093-3430-8).
Marcia C. Inhorn. Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xxviii + 379 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-8223-5933-3).
Janis H. Jenkins. Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xviii + 343 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-5202-8711-2). [End Page 188]
Arlene W. Keeling and Barbra Mann Wall. Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case Studies...

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