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Tara H. Abraham. Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloc’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016. xiii + 305 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-262-03509-5).
Edward C. Atwater. Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2016. xi + 387 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-58046-571-7).
Paul David Blanc. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2016. xiv + 309 pp. $40.00 (978-0-300-20466-7).
Niels Brimnes. Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in Twentieth-Century India. New Perspectives in South Asian History. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2016. xiv + 318 pp. Ill. $54.00 (978-81-250-6282-0).
Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton. Murder and the Making of English CSI. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 235 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-1-4214-2040-0).
Charles DePaolo. William Watson Cheyne and the Advancement of Bacteriology. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2016. vii + 269 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-4766-6651-8).
Lisa Diedrich. Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 290 pp. Ill. $28.00 (978-1-5179-0001-4).
Dennis A. Doyle. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2016. viii + 260 pp. $99.00 (978-1-5804-6492-5).
Joel Peter Eigen. Mad Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xiii + 206 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-1-4214-2048-6).
Nicholas G. Evans, Tara C. Smith, and Maimuna S. Majumder, eds. Ebola’s Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016. xvii + 267 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-262-03507-1). [End Page 153]
John M. Forrester. The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano, Vols. 1 and 2. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xlii + 1058 pp. (Vols. 1 and 2) Ill. $125.00 (978-0-86698-484-3).
Rebecca Kolins Givan. The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2016. xiv + 200 pp. Ill. (978-0-8014-5005-1).
Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, eds. Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 321 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-226-39087-1).
Gilberto Hochman. The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889–1930. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016. xiv + 216 pp. $25.00 (978-0-252-08211-5).
Andrew J. Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xv + 259 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-1-4214-2074-5).
Mike Jay. This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2016. 255 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-500-51897-7).
Robin E. Jensen. Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2016. xiii + 225 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-271-07620-1).
Jonathan Lamb. Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiii + 305 pp. Ill. $35.00 (9780691147826).
Miriam J. Laugesen. Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 271 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-674-54516-8).
T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow. Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xvi + 286 pp. Ill. $29.95 (9780520291096).
Andreas-Holger Maehle. Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 165 pp. $40.00 (978-0-226-40482-0).
Kenneth Maes. The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia. New York: Routledge, 2017. xv + 171 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-1-61132-361-0). [End Page 154]
Projit Bihari Mukharji. Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences...

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