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  • Books Received*
Jose Amador. Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. ix + 219 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-8265-2021-0).
Susan C. Ball. Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 251 pp. $27.95 (978-0-8014-5362-5).
Vincent Barras. Anatomies: De Vésale au Virtuel. Lausanne: Éditions BHMS, 2014. 104 pp. Ill. No price given (978-2-9700640-9-1).
Adia Benton. HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xii + 176 pp. Ill. $22.50 (978-0-8166-9243-9).
Bruce F. Berg. Healing Gotham: New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 299 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-1-4214-1599-4).
Lawrence J. Bliquez. The Tools of Asclepius: Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. xxxv + 439 pp. Ill. $194.00 (978-90-04-27907-0).
John C. Burnham. Health Care in America: A History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xiv + 596 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-1-4214-1608-3).
Luis A. Campos. Radium and the Secret of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 378 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-226-23827-2).
Mary R. S. Creese and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the Laboratory IV: Imperial Russia’s Women in Science. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xiii + 173 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-1-4422-4741-3).
Benjamin Elman. Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015. viii + 232 pp. Ill. $135.00 (978-90-04-28544-6). [End Page 374]
Isla Fay. Health and the City: Disease, Environment and Government in Norwich, 1200–1575. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. xxv + 246 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-903153-60-4).
Kevin Fong. Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century. New York: Penguin Books, 2012. 294 pp. Ill. $17.00 (978-0-14-312629-4).
W. Bruce Fye. Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxiv + 672 pp. Ill. $37.95 (978-0-19-998235-6).
Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ulrike Thoms, eds. The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 22. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. xv + 267 pp. Ill. $99.00 (9781848935594).
P. Wenzel Geissler, ed. Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. 369 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-8223-5749-0).
Janet Gyatso. Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xv + 519 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-16496-2).
Nancy J. Hirschmann and Beth Linker. Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vi + 307 pp. $65.00 (978-0-8122-4667-4).
Laura D. Hirshbein. Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2015. x + 213 pp. $31.00 (978-0-8135-6396-1).
Ido Israelowich. Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. viii + 191 pp. Ill. $59.95 (978-1-4214-1628-1).
Myles W. Jackson. The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015. xii + 336 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-262-02866-0).
Pat Jalland. Old Age in Australia: A History. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2015. vii + 296 pp. $59.99 (9780522867060).
Paul Kelton. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight Against Smallpox, 1518–1824. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. xiv + 281 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-8061-4688-1).
Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg. The Fate of Anatomical Collections. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2015. xxi + 305 pp. Ill. $134.95 (978-1-4094-6815-8). [End Page 375]
Martin Liebscher, ed. Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C...

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