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Monica Azzolini. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. xiii + 370 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-0-674-06663-2).
Alexander R. Bay. Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. x + 230 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-1-58046-427-7).
John Beebe and Ernst Falzeder, eds. The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 19151916. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. ix + 184 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-691-15561-6).
Helen Bynum. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxviii + 320 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-19-954205-5).
Anthony Cerulli. Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xviii + 211 pp. $80.00 (978-1-4384-4387-4).
Esther Cohen, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni, and Otniel E. Dror, eds. Knowledge and Pain. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. xviii + 406 pp. Ill. $122.00 (978-90-420-3582-9).
Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw. Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xiv + 290 pp. Ill. $124.95 (978-0-7546-6958-6).
Xiaoping Fang. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. x + 294 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-58046-433-8).
Olivier Faure. Les cliniques privées: Deux siècles de succes. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 281 pp. €17.00 (978-2-7535-1998-5).
Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and Volker Hess, eds. Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 327 pp. Ill. $92.00 (978-0-230-30196-2). [End Page 302]
Mark Harrison. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xviii + 376 pp. Ill. $38.00 (978-0-300-12357-9).
T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes. Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 464 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-674-04737-2).
David S. Jones. Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiv + 319 pp. $34.95 (978-1-4214-0801-9).
Marian Moser Jones. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xxviii + 375 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-4214-0738-8).
Jonathan Kahn. Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xi + 311 pp. Ill $35.00 (978-0-231-16298-2).
Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton. Leech. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 208 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-78023-033-7).
Alysa Levene. Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 17411800: “Left to the Mercy of the World.” Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xiii +223 pp. Ill. £14.99 (978-0-7190-7355-7).
Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson, eds. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-communicable and Communicable Diseases. New York: Routledge, 2013. xiii + 317 pp. Ill. $155.00 (978-0-415-57543-0).
Dave Lüthi. Le compas & le bistouri: Architectures de la médecine at du tourisme curatif. L’exemple vaudois (17601940). Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2012. xxii + 545 pp. Ill. €53.00 (978-2-9700640-2-2).
Sarah G. Mars. The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England since the 1960s. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiii + 260 pp. $85.00 (978-0-230-22138-3).
Lynn McDonald, ed. Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, vol. 16. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012. xiv + 974 pp. Ill. $150.00 (978-0-88920-471-3).
Todd Meyers. The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy. In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science. Seattle: University of...

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