Books Received
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Books Received*
Jean-Michel Agasse and Concetta Pennuto. Girolamo Mercuriale Johann Crato von Krafftheim: Une Correspondance Entre Deux Medecins Humanistes. Geneva: Librairie DROZ, 2016. 342 pp. $78.00 (978-2-600-01875-3).
Douglas C. Baynton. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 177 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-36416-2).
Claudia Cornwall. Battling Melanoma: One Couple’s Struggle from Diagnosis to Cure. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xv + 212 pp. $38.00 (978-1-4422-4515-0).
William Feindel and Richard Leblanc. The Wounded Brain Healed: The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. xiv + 632 pp. Ill. $100.00 (978-0-7735-4637-0).
James G. Hanley. Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2016. xi + 257 pp. $125.00 (978-1-58046-556-4).
Thomas R. Marshall. Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking: The Transformation of American Attitudes and Cigarette Use, 1890–2016. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xiii + 209 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-1-4985-0432-4).
Stephan E. Mawdsley. Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2016. xiii + 210 pp. Ill. $54.95 (978-0-8135-7439-4).
Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt. Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016. viii + 472 pp. Ill. $49.00 (978-0-262-03443-2).
Okezi T. Otovo. Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. xi + 273 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4773-0905-6). [End Page 763]
Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xii + 414 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-4214-2033-2).
Robert Peckham. Epidemics in Modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxi + 355 pp. Ill. $32.99 (978-1-107-44676-2).
David R. Petriello. Bacteria and Bayonets: The Impact of Disease in American Military History. Havertown, Pa.: Casemate Publishers, 2016. 263 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-61200-3412).
Shelley Z. Reuter. Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 264 pp. Ill. $27.00 (978-0-8166-9996-4).
Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse. Debating Darwin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xvi + 299 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-226-38442-9).
Mariana Saad. Cabanis, comprendre l’homme pour changer le monde. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016. 309 pp. (978-2-406-05803-8).
Harris Solomon. Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xii + 292 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-6101-5).
Luba Vikhanski. Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016. 304 pp. $26.99 (978-1-61373-113-0).
Mark E. Williams. The Art and Science of Aging Well: A Physician’s Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xvii + 222 pp. Ill. $28.00 (978-1-4696-2739-7). [End Page 764]
Footnotes
* 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.
