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Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard, eds. Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2013. xvi + 335 pp. Ill. $81.95 (978-3-0343-0884-7).
Reid Barbour. Sir Thomas Browne: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv + 534 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-0-19-967988-1).
Gary S. Belkin. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxviii + 256 pp. Ill. $59.95 (978-0-19-989817-6).
Rachel Berger. Ayurveda Made Modern: Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900–1955. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. vii + 232 pp. $85.00 (978-0-23028-455-5).
John Booss and Marilyn J. August. To Catch a Virus. Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, 2013. xxvii + 363 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-55581-507-3).
Linda Bryder. The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2014. vii + 323 pp. NZ$49.99 (978-1-86940-809-1).
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey. Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 312 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-0-19-967813-6).
David K. C. Cooper. Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Best Known in Fields Other than Medicine. Forward by Howard Dean. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2014. xvi + 477 pp. Ill. $105.00 (978-1-61149-466-2).
Luke Demaitre. Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2013. vii + 350 pp. Ill. $58.00 (978-0-275-98485-4).
Alan Derickson. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xiii + 224 pp. $49.95 (978-0-8122-4553-0).
Leah DeVun. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xiii + 255 pp. Ill. $28.00 (978-0-231-14539-8-1). [End Page 399]
Matthew W. Dunne. A Cold War State of Mind: Brainwashing and Postwar American Society. Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. xii + 281 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-1-62534-041-2).
Yolanda Eraso. Representing Argentinian Mothers: Medicine, Ideas, and Culture in the Modern Era, 1900–1946. Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities 92. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. xiii + 293 pp. Ill. $91.00 (978-90-420-3704-5).
Lawrence J. Friedman with Anke M. Schriber. The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xxxv + 410 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-231-16258-6).
Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr., eds. Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control. Perspectives in Global Health Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 246 pp. Ill. $80.00 (978-0-8214-2067-6).
Janet Greenlees and Linda Bryder, eds. Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880–1990. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine no. 14. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xiii + 214 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-434-4).
Janet Hargreaves and Louise Page. Reflective Practice. Key Themes in Health & Social Care. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2013. xi + 192 pp. Ill $24.95 (978-0-7456-5424-9).
Matthew M. Heaton. Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry. New African Histories Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013 x + 249 pp. $32.95 (978-0-8214-2070-6).
Henry J. Heimlich. Heimlich’s Manuevers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014. 253 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-61614-849-2).
Fiona Hutton. The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700–1900. The Body, Gender and Culture no. 13. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. ix + 203 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-421-4).
Louise J. Lawrence. Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 195 pp. $27.95 (978-0-19-959009-4).
W. David Lee with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer. From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2014. xii + 233 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978...

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