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  • Books Received

Emily K. Abel. Living in Death's Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 172 pp. $39.95 (978-1-4214-2184-1).

Arthur J. Ammann. Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. xiii + 376 pp. $34.95 (978-0-8265-2125-5).

Alison Bashford. Quarantine: Local and Global Histories. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiv + 330 pp. Ill. $39.99 (978-1-137-52444-7).

Marco Beretta, Maria Conforti, and Paolo Mazzarello, eds. Savant Relics: Brains and Remains of Scientists. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2016. xi + 236 pp. Ill. $56.00 (978-88135-235-7).

Suzannah Biernoff. Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. viii + 213 pp. Ill. $70.00 (978-0-472-13029-0).

Robyn Bluhm, ed. Knowing and Acting in Medicine. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. vi + 262 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-78348-810-0).

Jose-Antonio Linage Conde. El hospital de Sepulveday la Cofradia de la Cruz. Segovia y en Castilla y Le^n: Veoveo Ediciones, 2016. 461 pp. Ill. No price given (9788461742943).

Susan Craddock. Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. xiii + 166 pp. $25.00 (978-15179-0079-3).

Judith Daar. The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in a.n Era of Reproductive Technologies. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2017. xvi + 265 pp. $40.00 (978-0-30013715-6).

Patricia D'Antonio. Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017. xv + 145 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-0-8135-7102-7). [End Page 469]

Mark de Rond. Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2017. xxi +150 pp. $21.95 (978-1-5017-0548-9).

Jane Draycott and Emma-Jayne Graham, eds. Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. Medicine and the Body in Antiquity. Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 271 pp. Ill. $149.95 (978-1-4724-5080-7).

Shari L. Dworkin, Monica Gandhi, and Paige Passano, eds. Women's Empowerment and Global Health: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. x + 335 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-052-027288-0).

Gary B. Ferngren. Science & Religion: A Historical Introduction, 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xiv + 484 pp. $32.95 (978-1-421421-728).

Holly Folk. The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv +351 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-1-4696-3279-7).

Kathlyn Gay. Epilepsy: The Ultimate Teen Guide, 2nd ed. It Happened to Me, no. 52. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. x +145 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-44227171-5).

Pablo M. Gomez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xix + 291 pp. $29.95 (978-1-4696-3087-8).

W. V. Harris. Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xv + 319 pp. Ill. $138.00 (978-90-04-32558-6).

Thomas Helling. Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2017. x + 464 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-4766-6421-7).

Brian King. States of Disease: Political Environments and Human Health. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xxv + 227 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-27821-9).

Jeanne Kisacky. Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870-1940. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. vii + 448 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8229-4461-4).

Krister Dylan Knapp. William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 385 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-4696-3124-0). [End Page 470]

Jennifer L. Lambe. Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History. Chapel Hill: University of North...

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