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Sari Altschuler. The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 312 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-8122-4986-6).
Carl F. Ameringer. U.S. Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs. xvi + 178 pp. Ill. $84.99 (978-1-107-11720-4).
Katie Batza. Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xii + 178 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8122-5013-8).
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos, eds. Greek Medical Literature and Its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. London: Routledge, 2018. xii + 239 pp. $144.95 (978-1-4724-8791-9).
Laura Briggs. How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump. Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xii + 286 pp. $29.95 (978-0-520-28191-2).
Elizabeth Coachman. Mary Jane Safford, MD: Indomitable Mite. Brooksville, Fla.: Elizabeth Coachman, 2018. 214 pp. Ill. No price given (978-0-9986366-3-4).
Isabel M. Cordova. Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. xiv + 234 pp. $29.95 (978-1-4773-1412-8).
Peter Dawson. Dorothy in a Man’s World: A Victorian Woman Physician’s Trials and Triumphs. Charleston: CreateSpace, 2018. xvi + 265 pp. Ill. No price given (978-1-5237-4903-4).
Thomas Dodman. What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion. Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xii + 275 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-49294-0).
Nora Doyle. Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xiv + 272 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-4696-3719-8).
Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton. Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. xiv + 321 pp. Ill. $31.95 (978-0-88755-795-8).
Susan Bartlett Foote. The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946–1954. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. xxii + 304 pp. Ill. $22.95 (978-1-5179-0364-0).
Janet Golden. Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 268 pp. Ill. $27.99 (978-1-108-41500-2).
Ofer Hadass. Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier’s Medical Practice. The Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. xvi + 213 pp. Ill. $89.95 (978-0-271-08018-5).
Ari Larissa Heinrich. Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body. Perverse Modernities. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. xii + 246 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8223-7053-6).
Theresia Hofer. Medicine and Memory in Tibet: AMCHI Physicians in an Age of Reform. Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xviii + 286 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-295-74299-1).
Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp, eds. Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400–1700. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. x + 354 pp. $89.95 (978-0-8122-5021-3).
Lennart Lehmhaus and Matteo Martelli, eds. Collecting Recipes: Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. vii + 334 pp. $114.99 (978-1-5015-0253-8).
Rebecca Lemon. Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xviii + 258 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8122-4996-5).
Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama, eds. Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. x + 315 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-988-8390-90-8).
Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett, eds. Imagining Chinese Medicine. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 18. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xxi + 519 pp. Ill. $144.00 (978-90-04-36216-1).
Joshua S. Loomis. Epidemics: The...

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