Books Received

Claudia Agostoni. Curar, sanar y educar: Enfermedad y Sociedad en Mexico, Siglos XIX y XX. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 2008. 340 pp. Ill. (paperbound, 978-970-32-5107-0).

Warwick Anderson. The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 318 pp. Ill. $24.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9040-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9040-6).

Simon Baatz. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. xv + 541 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-06-078100-2).

Poonam Bala, ed. Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009. ix + 197 pp. $65.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-7391 2460-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2460-4), $26.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-7391-2461-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2461-1).

Lucinda McCray Beier. Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii + 242 pp. Ill. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN 10: 0-252-03348-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03348-3), $25.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-252-07554-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07554-4).

Michelle Hébert Boyd. Enriched by Catastrophe: Social Work and Social Conflict after the Halifax Explosion. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2007. viii + 134 pp. Ill. $17.95 (978-1-55266-227-4).

Gregoire Chamayou. Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIII et XIX siècles. Paris: La Découverte, 2008. 423 pp. Ill. €24.50 (978-2-7071-5646-4).

Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth, eds. Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Making of a "Central Problem." Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 201 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-87413-037-9).

Lennard J. Davis. Obsession: A History. Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2008. v + 290 pp. Ill. $27.50, £14.50 (ISBN-10: 0-226-13782-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13782-7).

Judith Fingard and John Rutherford. Protect, Befriend, Respect: Nova Scotia's Mental Health Movement, 1908-2008. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008. x + 157 pp. Ill. $17.95 (paperbound, 978-1-55266-275-5).

Paul R. Goddard. The History of Medicine, Money and Politics: Riding the Rollercoaster of State Medicine. Bristol, U.K.: Clinical Press, 2008. viii + 268 pp. Ill. £25.00 (paperbound, 978-1-85457-050-5).

Lawrence O. Gostin. Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xxxi + 767 pp. Ill. $45.00 (paperbound, 978-0-520 25376-6).

Marilyn E. Hegarty. Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality During World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2008. xi + 250 pp. Ill. $45.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8147-3704-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3704-0).

Katrina Karkazis. Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 365 pp. $84.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4302-8), $23.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4318-9).

Axel Klein. Drugs and the World. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 221 pp. $19.95 (paperbound, 978-1-86189-381-9).

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 314 pp. Ill. $27.50, £14.50 (ISBN-10: 0-226-46759-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46759-7).

Ellen Leopold. Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xi + 284 pp. Ill. $25.95 (978-0-8135-4404-5).

Paul A. Lombardo. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv + 365 pp. Ill. $29.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9010-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9010-9).

Lee-Ann Monk. Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 266 pp. €55.00 (978-90-420-2419-9).

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