Books Received

Emily K. Abel. The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 226 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-4214-0919-1).

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam, eds. Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future. London: The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2013. vi + 250 pp. Ill. £25.00 (978-1-904096-21-4).

Donald Avery. Pathogens for War: Biological Weapons, Canadian Life Scientists, and North America Biodefence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xii + 410 pp. Ill. $36.95 (978-1-4426-1424-6).

Poonam Bala, ed. Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. xvii + 157 pp. No price given. (978-0-7391-7023-6).

Jeremy Hugh Baron. The Stomach: A Biography. Four Thousand Years of Stomach Pains: Literature, Symptoms and Epidemiology. North Charleston, N.C.: CreateSpace, 2013. x + 358 pp. Ill. No price given. (978-1477429792).

Raphael S. Bloch. Healers and Achievers: Physicians Who Excelled in Other Fields and the Times in Which They Lived. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, 2013. 791 pp. Ill. No price given. (978-1-4691-9247-5).

Michael B. Bracken. Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xii + 330 pp. Ill. $60.00 (978-0-300-18884-4).

William Buchan. Can Onions Cure Ear-ache? Medical Advice from 1789. Edited by Melanie King. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2013. xviii + 190 pp. Ill. $25.00 (978-1-85124-382-2).

Andrew S. Curran. The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiv + 310 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4214-0965-8).

Stephen M. Davidson. A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Steps Under the Affordable Care Act. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Briefs, 2013. xi + 111 pp. No price given. (978-0-8047-8700-0).

Hansjorg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick, eds. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnationial Health and Healing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. vii + 348 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-253-22368-5).

John P. DiMoia. Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. x + 280 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth, 978-0-8047-8411-5), $45.00 (e-book, 978-0-8047-8613-3).

Nicola Goc. Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822–1922: News Narratives in England and Australia. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2013. vii + 203 pp. $99.95 (978-1-4094-0604-4).

Martin Halliwell. Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945–1970. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013. xiv + 382 pp. Ill. $62.50 (978-0-8135-6064-9).

W. V. Harris, ed. Mental Disorders in the Classical World. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 38. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvii + 512 pp. Ill. $229.00 (978-90-04-24982-0).

Brian B. Hoffman. Adrenaline. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 298 pp. $24.95 (978-0-674-05088-4).

Mark Osborne Humphries. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xii + 323 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-4426-4111-2).

Kerri A. Inglis. Ma’i Lepera: Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013. xviii + 268 pp. Ill. $24.00 (978-0-8248-3635-1).

Jay Ingram. Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2013. 282 pp. $30.00 (978-0-300-18989-6).

Laura Kelly. Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xvi + 255 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-0-71908-835-3).

Pamela E. Klassen. Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity. The Anthropology of Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xxix + 316 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-520-27099-2).

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