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  • Books Received*

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Jessica L. Adler. Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System. Reconfiguring American Political History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xiv + 353 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-14214-2287-9).
Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus, eds. The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2017. viii + 310 pp. Ill. (978-1-58046-595-3).
Ricardo Pou Ferrari. Un Cirujano en ‘La Tierra Purpurea’ Dr. Fermin Ferreira (1803–1867). Montevideo: Plus Ultra Ediciones, 2017. 277 pp. Ill. No price given (978-9974-8569-3-6).
Scott Gilbert and Clara Pinto-Correia. Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology. Foreword by Donna Haraway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xxi + 272 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-231-17094-9).
Powell H. Kazanjian. Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017. x + 234 pp. Ill. $44.95 (978-0-8135-8509-3).
Andrew Lakoff. Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 231 pp. $29.95 (978-0-52029-576-6).
Manuella Meyer. Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830–1944. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. xiv + 248 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-1-58046-578-6).
Richard C. Parks. Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xvi + 196 pp. $55.00 (978-0-8032-6845-6).
Katherine Paugh. The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition. The Past & Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 266 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-0-19-878978-9). [End Page 234]
Naomi Pfeffer. Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv + 358 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-300-11855-1).
Eric Plemons. The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi + 192 pp. Ill. $23.95 (978-0-8223-6914-1).
Jerald Winakur. Human Voices Wake Us. Foreword by Alan Shapiro. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2017. xvi + 77 pp. $15.95 (978-1-60635-334-9). [End Page 235]

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* The Bulletin reserves freedom of decision as to the publications to be included in this section. Items received, other than those reviewed, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine.

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