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  • Books Received*
Susan A. Ashley. “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siecle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. ix + 300 pp. $114.00 (978-1-350-01339-1).
Stefanie Buchenau and Roberto Lo Presti, eds. Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. x + 354 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-8229-4472-0).
Claire D. Clark. The Recovery Revolution: The Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xvi + 318 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-231-17638-5).
Lucia Dacome. Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy. The Past & Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 306 pp. $99.00 (978-0-19-873618-9).
Gilles de Corbeil. Liber de uirtutibus et laudibus compositorum medicamimum. Mireille Ausécashe, ed. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana 8. Florence: Sismel, 2017. viii + 523 pp. €68.00 (978-88-8450-765-5).
Michael A. Flannery. Civil War Pharmacy: A History. 2nd ed. Foreword by Margaret Humphreys. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. xviii + 317 pp. Ill. $34.50 (978-0-8093-3592-3).
Benjamin Kahan, ed. Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality. Melissa Haynes, trans. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2017. x + 195 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-1-5017-0461-1).
Melanie A. Kiechle. Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xviii + 331 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-295-74193-2).
A. R. Ruis. Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017. xii + 201 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-9-8135-8407-2). [End Page 831]
Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner, eds. Technological Change in Modern Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Innovation. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester University Press, 2017. 236 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-58046-594-6).
Jonathan Simon. Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894–1900. Postphenomenology and the Philosopy of Technology. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. x + 156 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-4985-3147-4).
Soyoung Suh. Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century. Harvard East Asian Monographs 404. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. xvi + 228 pp. $39.95 (978-0-674-97696-2). [End Page 832]

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* 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.

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