Books Received

Poonam Bala, ed. Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa. Empires in Perspective no. 22. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xiii + 225 pp. $99.00 (978–1-84893–465-8).

Rosa Ballester Añón, Josep Bernabeu Mestre, Ramón Castejón Bolea, and Enrique Perdiguero Gil, eds. Salud Y Enfermedad en La Sociedad Alicantina Contemprânea: Fuentes, Resultados, y Perspectivas en el Contexto de la Historia Local. Alicante, 13 y 14 de Diciembre de 2012. Alicante, Spain: INGRA Impresores, 2012. 174 pp. Ill. No price given (978–84-7784–628-4).

Alison Bashford. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xii + 466 pp. Ill. $50.00 (9–780231-147668).

Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio and Andrea Bettels, eds. Im Korsett der Tugenden: Moral und Geschlect im Kulturhistorischen Kontext. Hildeshim, Germany: George Olms Verlag, 2014. xxiii + 348 pp. €48.00 (978–3-487–15006-2).

Suzanne Bourgeois. Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxxiv + 230 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978–0-520–27607-9).

Lundy Braun. Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xi + 271 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978–0-8166–8357-4).

David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden, eds. Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2014. vi + 367 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978–1-58046–476-5).

Gagandip Cheema. Western Medicine and Colonial Punjab: A Sociocultural Perspective (1849–1901). Chandigarh, India: Unistar Books, 2013. xii + 388 pp. Ill. INR 695 (978–93-5113–257-8).

Jocelyn Lim Chua. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xii + 240 pp. $29.95 (978–0-520–28116-5).

Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby. Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in Global Bioeconomy. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 279 pp. $24.95 (paperbound, 978–0-8223–5622-6).

Shauna Devine. Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. x + 372 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978–1-4696–1155-6).

Erika Dyck. Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xi + 304 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978–1-4426–1255-6).

John H. Exton. Crucible of Science: The Story of the Cori Laboratory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi + 226 pp. Ill. £32.99 (978–0-19–986107-1).

Nahyan Fancy. Science and Religion in Mamlk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Body Resurrection. Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series. London: Routledge, 2013. 186 pp. $145.00 (978–0-415–62200-4).

Angus H. Ferguson. Should a Doctor Tell? The Evolution of Medical Confidentiality in Britain. Medical Law and Ethics Series. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013. xv + 240 pp. $124.95 (978–0-7546–7960-8).

Gary B. Ferngren. Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xii + 241 pp. $24.95 (978–1-4214–1216-0).

Ricardo Pou Ferrari and Fernando Mañe Garzón. Carlos Nery (1856–1927): Médico, Diplomâtico y Fundador de la Escuela de Nurses del Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay: Plus Ultra Ediciones, 2013. 209 pp. Ill. No price given (978–9974-99–378-5).

Evelyn Ford. The Great Plague: A People’s History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. xi + 173 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978–0-300–17381-9).

Tine M. Gammeltoft. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xiii + 315 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978–0-520–27843-1).

Nassir Ghaemi. On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis and Despair in the Modern World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ix + 215 pp. $24.95 (978–1-4214–0933-7).

Roger Gosden and Pam Walker. A Surgeon’s Story: The Autobiography of Robert T. Morris. Williamsburg, Va.: Jamestowne Bookworks, 2013. xxvii + 338 pp. Ill. $15.99 (978–0-9897199–0-2).

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