Books Received

Emily K. Abel. Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xviii + 176 pp. Ill. $68.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-3900-3), $24.95 (978-0 8135-3901-0).

Emily K. Abel. Tuberculosis & the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health & Migration to Los Angeles. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. x + 188 pp. Ill. $68.00 (978-0-8135-4175-4), $23.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-4176-1).

Sanjam Ahluwalia. Reproductive Restraints: Birth Control in India, 1877-1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii + 251 pp. $60.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-252-03240 3, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03240-0), $25.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-252-07480-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07480-6).

Robert A. Aronowitz. Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 366 pp. Ill. $30.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-82249-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-521-82249-7).

Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds. This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. ix + 244 pp. Ill. $29.95 (paperbound, 978-1-58983-186-5).

Poonam Bala. Medicine and Medical Policies in India: Social and Historical Perspectives. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. xii + 139 pp. $55.00 (ISBN-10: 0-7391-1322 4, ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1322-6).

Peter J. F. Baskett and Thomas F. Baskett, eds. Resuscitation Greats. Bristol, U.K.: Clinical Press Ltd., 2007. viii + 362 pp. Ill. $50.00, £25.00, €38.00 (978-1-85457 049-9).

John Booker. Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c. 1650-1900. History of Medicine in Context. Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xix + 624 pp. Ill. $124.95 (978-0-7546-6178-8).

Nancy D. Campbell. Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. xvii + 301 pp. Ill. $50.00 (ISBN-10: 0-472-11610-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11610-2).

Beth Widmaier Capo. Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. ix + 220 pp. Ill. $42.95 (978 0-8142-1059-8).

Donald Caton and Kathryn E. McGoldrick, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical and Posthumous Memoirs, Volume X. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2007. vii + 380 pp. Ill. $60.00 (1-889595-16-0).

Katharine A. Craik. Reading Sensations in Early Modern England. Early Modern Literature in History. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. xi + 200 pp. $69.95 (ISBN-10: 1-4039-2192-X, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-2192-5).

Dorothy H. Crawford. How Microbes Shaped Our History: Deadly Companions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $35.95 (978-0-19-280719-9).

Ivan Crozier, ed. Sexual Inversion: Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds: A Critical Edition. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. vii + 351 pp. Ill. $69.95 (ISBN-10: 0-230-00803-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-00803-8).

Alexandra Cuffel. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xviii + 430 pp. Ill. $45.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-268-02367-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-268-02367-6).

Heather D. Curtis. Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900. Lived Religions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv + 269 pp. Ill. $49.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-8686-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8686-7).

Dominichi, Miranda de Sá. A Cíêncía como Profíssao: médicos, bacharéis e cientistas no Brasil (1895-1935). Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 2006. 216 pp. (paperbound, 85-7541-077-6).

Estēe Dvorjetski. Leisure, Pleasure and Healing: Spa Culture and Medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxxiii + 524 pp. Ill. $242.00, €179.00 (ISBN-10: 90-04-15681-X, ISBN 13: 978-90-04-15681-4)

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