Books Received

Eva Ahrén. Death, Modernity, and the Body: Sweden 1870–1940. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xv + 215 pp. $75.00 (ISBN-10: 1-58046-312-6, ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-312-6).

Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society 1800–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. Ill. $80.00, £50.00 (978-1-4426-3996-6).

Jesse F. Ballenger, Peter J. Whitehouse, Constantine G. Lyketsos, et al., eds. Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv + 267 pp. Ill. $60.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9365-0-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9365-0).

Jamie Larry Benchimol, Magali SáKodama, Romero Kaori, et al. Cherry trees and Coffee Farms: Medical Scientific Relations between Brazil and Japan and the saga of Hideyo Noguchi. Rio de Janeiro: Bom Texto, 2009. 678 pp. Ill. No price given. (978-85-87723-83-3).

Carla Bittel. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xv + 328 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-8078-3283-7).

Gerrit Bos, ed. On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs. Brigham Young University, Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2009. liii + 373 pp. $49.95, £34.50 (978-0-8425-2730-9).

Julie K. Brown. Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. xi + 326 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-262-02657-4).

Mary Wilson Carpenter. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2010. xvii + 214 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-0-313-06542-2).

Ed Cohen. A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. x + 372 pp. $89.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4518-3), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4535-0).

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the end of the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 342 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-0-19-957402-5).

James P. Dellapenna, Jr., and Capt. Alan J. Rife. Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service. Landover, Md.: PHS Commissioner Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health, 2009. vii + 170 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-9773149-2-8).

Nadja Durbach. Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xiii + 273 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-520-25768-9).

Michael A. Elpern and David LaCombe, eds. Osler’s Bedside Library: Great Writers Who Inspired a Great Physician. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2010. xiv + 362 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth, 978-1-934465-49-3), $54.95 (paperbound, 978-1-934465-47-9).

Mariola Espinosa. Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii + 189 pp. Ill. $55.00, £38.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-226-21811-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21811-3), $22.50, £15.50 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-226-21812-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21812-0).

S. Nassir Ghaemi. The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art & Science in Psychiatry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii + 253 pp. $50.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9390-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9390-2).

Myron Gittell. Woodstock ‘69: Three Days of Peace, Music & Medical Care. Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.: Load N Go Press, 2009. xii + 171 pp. Ill. $15.95 (paperbound, 978-0-962-635731).

Jan Goldstein. Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. xi + 246 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-691-01186-8).

Teresa Ortiz Gómez, et al. La Experiencia de Enfermar en Perspectiva Histórica XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina Granada, 11–14 de Junio de 2008. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2008. 522 pp. No price given. (978-84-338-4858-1).

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