Books Received

Joachim Bauer and Harald Kluge. Das wissenschaftliche Gesamtwerk des Jenaer Nervenarztes Hans Berger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 163 pp. Ill. €48.00 (978-3-515-09787-1).

Michael Bliss. Writing History: A Professor’s Life. Toronto: Dundern, 2011. 428 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-1554889532).

Pratik Chakrabarti. Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2010. xi + 259 pp. Ill. €60.00 (978-0-7190-8312-9).

Jules Cohen and Stephanie Brown Clark. John Romano & George Engel: Their Lives and Work. Rochester, N.Y.: Meliora Press, 2010. xix + 281 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-1-58046-295-2).

Peter C. Engelman. A History of the Birth Control Movement in America. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2011. xxiii + 231 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-0-313-36509-6).

Jill A. Fisher, ed. Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. vii + 249 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-0-8135-5047-3).

Philip Gavitt. Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x + 280 pp. $90.00 (978-1-107-00294-4).

Peter J. Grund. “Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite”: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock’s Treatise on Alchemy. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. xii + 350 pp. $72.00 (978-0-86698-415-7).

Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, and Mark Schlesinger, eds. Patients as Policy Actors. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. viii + 309 pp. Ill. $75.00 (978-0-8135-5051-0).

Michael E. Hyland. The Origins of Health and Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xv + 341 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-521-71970-4).

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 306 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-19-530886-0).

Cynthia Klestinec. Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xix + 257 pp. Ill. $55.00 (ISBN-10: 1-4214-0142-8, ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0142-3).

Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin, eds. Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800. The History of Medicine in Context. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. xi + 247 pp. $104.95 (978-0-7546-6854-1).

Sarah F. Liebschutz. Communities and Health Care: The Rochester, New York, Experiment. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2011. xvi + 255 pp. Ill. $75.00 (978-1-58046-385-0).

Beth Linker. War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 291 pp. Ill $35.00 (978-0-226-48253-8).

Barbara Newborg and Florence Nash. Walter Kempner and the Rice Diet: Challenging Conventional Wisdom. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. xii + 261 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-59460-885-8).

Stephen Pemberton. The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xviii + 377 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-1-4214-0115-7).

Johan Sebastian Pöll. The Anaesthetist, 1890–1960: A Historical Comparative Study between Britain and Germany. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2011. 298 pp. Ill. €34.50 (978-90-5235-209-1).

Dorothy Roberts. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. New York: New Press, 2011. xii + 388 pp. $29.95 (978-1-59558-495-3).

Aslihan Sanal. New Organs Within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy. Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xx + 244 pp. Ill. $23.95 (978-0-8223-4912-9).

Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld, eds. Public Health: The Development of a Discipline. Vol. 2, Twentieth-Century Challenges. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. xxxv + 871 pp. Ill. $45.95 (978-0-8135-5009-1).

David G. Schuster. Neurasthenic Nation: America’s Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869–1920. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. xiii + 203 pp. Ill...