Books Received

Jeanne E. Abrams. Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health. New York: New York University Press, 2013. viii + 306 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-8147-8919-3).

S. Josephine Baker. Fighting for Life. Introduction by Helen Epstein. New York: New York Review Books, 2013. xviii + 264 pp. Ill. $16.95 (978-1-59017-706-8).

Heather R. Beatty. Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. viii + 241 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-308-8).

Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna, eds. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 446 pp. $29.95 (978-0-691-15739-9).

Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown, eds. Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013. xvi + 349 pp. Ill. $29.95 (paper-bound, 978-0-8135-6120-2), $85.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-6121-9).

Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas, eds. Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine no. 9. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. 208 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-403-0).

Kristy Wilson Bowers. Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2013. x + 139 pp. $80.00 (978-1-58046-451-2).

Candy Gunther Brown. The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 322 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-19-998578-4).

John Brown and Ian Maclaren. Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion: Rab and His Friends & a Doctor of the Old School, with a Brief History of the Edinburgh School of Medicine by John Raffensperger. New York: Cosimo Classics, 2013. vii + 90 pp. Ill. No price given (978-1-61640-544-1).

Joseph P. Byrne. Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Health and Wellness in Daily Life. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2013. x + 268 pp. Ill. No price given (978-0-313-38136-2).

Roger Cooter with Claudia Stein. Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xiv + 350 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-300-18663-5).

Dorothy H. Crawford. Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv + 244 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-19-964114-7).

Martin Duke, ed. Reflections on Medicine: Essays by Robert U. Massey, M.D. Foreword by Sherwin B. Nuland. New York: Gordian Knot Books, 2013. xii + 192 pp. No price given (978-1-884092-98-5).

Mona Gleason. Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900–1940. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. xiii + 207 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-0-7735-4132-0).

Carole Haber. The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xii + 310 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-4696-0758-0).

Ali Haggett. Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. ix + 239 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-84893-310-1).

Mayumi Hayaski. The Care of Older People. England and Japan: A Comparative Study. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, no. 11. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xiii + 291 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-417-7).

Allan V. Horwitz. Anxiety: A Short History. Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xvi + 190 pp. $24.95 (978-1-4214-1080-7).

Margaret Humphreys. Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiv + 385 pp. $34.95 (cloth, 978-1-4214-0999-3); $34.95 (ebook, 978-1-4214-1000-5).

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