Books Received

John Aberth. Plagues in World History. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. 256 pp. $34.95 (978-0-7425-5705-5).

Michael J. Aminoff. Brown-Sequard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiiii + 356 pp. Ill. $59.95 (978-0-19-974263-9).

Marion Baschin. Wer lässt sich von einem Homöopathen behandeln? Die Patienten des Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1785-1864). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 495 pp. Ill. €68.00 (978-3-515-09772-7).

Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 608 pp. $150.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-537314-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-537314-1).

Khiara M. Bridges. Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xi + 293 pp. $24.95 (978-0-520-26895-1).

Bryan Caplan. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 215 pp. $24.99 (978-0-465-01867).

Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck, eds. Histories of Scientific Observation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 460 pp. Ill. $27.50 (ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13678-3, ISBN-10: 0-226-13678-7).

Alan E. H. Emery and Marcia L. H. Emery. The History of a Genetic Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2011. xxiv + 231 pp. Ill. $155.00 (978-0-19-959147-3).

Kerry L. Falvey. Medicine at Yale: The First 200 Years. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010. 256 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-300-16730-6).

John Glad. Jewish Eugenics. Washington, D.C.: Wooden Shore, 2011. v + 464 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-0-89703-005-2).

Mark Harrison. The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 384 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-0-19-957582-4).

Susanne Hoffmann. Gesunder Alltag im 20. Jahrhundert? Geschlechterspezifische Diskurse und gesundheitsrelevante Verhaltensstile in deutschsprachigen Ländern. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 538 pp. Ill. €76.00 (978-3-515-09681-2).

Elisabeth Hsu. Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv + 404 pp. Ill. $120.00 (978-0-521-51662-4).

David Langslow and Brigitte Maire, eds. Body, Disease and Treatment in a Changing World: Latin Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Medicine. Lausanne: Éditions BHMS, 2010. xiii + 403 pp. Ill. €55.00 (978-2-9700640-0-8).

Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, eds. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. 321 pp. $23.95 (ISBN-978-0-8223-4826-9).

Tullio Manzoni. Corteccia cerebrale e funzioni cognitive: Ventitré secoli di storia. Rome: Carocci editore, 2011. 549 pp. €52.00 (978-88-430-5742-9).

Cheryl Mattingly. The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xi + 288 pp. $26.95 (978-0-520-26735-0).

Lynn McDonald, ed. Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War. Vol. 14 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. xiv + 1074 pp. Ill. $150.00 (978-0-88920-469-0).

Rebecca Messbarger. The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 248 pp. Ill. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-52081-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52081-0).

Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean, eds. Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals. Epistemologies of Healing, vol. 8. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. 271 pp. $90.00 (978-1-84545-672-6).

Edwin R. Nye. Malaria Letters: The Ross-Laveran Correspondence 1896-1908. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 2010. 63 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-877372-66-7).

Philipp Osten, ed. Patientendokumente: Krankheit in Selbstzeugnissen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 249 pp. €40.00 (978-3-515-09717-8).

Cindy Patton, ed. Rebirth of the Clinic: Places...