Books Received

Amir A. Afkhami. A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xvi + 276 pp. Ill. $54.95 (978-1-4214-2721-8).

Harold Braswell. The Crisis of US Hospice Care: Family and Freedom at the End of Life. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xiv + 274 pp. $54.95 (978-1-4214-2982-3).

Diana Brown. The Unconventional Career of Dr. Muriel Bell. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press, 2018. 184 pp. Ill. $23.99 (978-1-98-853130-4).

Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin, eds. Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. x + 346 pp. Ill. $64.95 (978-1421427492).

David T. Courtwright. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2019. x + 326 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-0-674-73737-2).

Shinjini Das. Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 298 pp. Ill. $105.00 (978-1-108-42062-4).

Pierre-Yves Donz. Making Medicine a Business: X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895–1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xiv + 199 pp. Ill. 114.39 (978-981-10-8158-3).

Chris S. Duball. The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Ill. $27.95 (978-1-4780-0394-6).

Katherine Foxhall. Migraine: A History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xvi + 276 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-4214-2948-9).

Anthony Ryan Hatch. Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. viii + 176 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-5179-0744-0).

Vanessa Heggie. Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. x + 254 pp. Ill. No price given (978-0-226-65088-3).

Hieke Huistra. The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections: Hands On, Hands Off. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, 2019. xii + 178 pp. Ill. $149.95 (978-1-4724-6107-0).

Steven King. Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750–1834. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 408 pp. Ill. £75.00 (978-1-5261-2900-0).

Wendy Kline. Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-19-023251-1).

Elaine Leong. Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. viii + 284 pp. Ill. NP (978-0-226-58366-2).

Caroline Petit, ed. Galen's Treatise (De indolentia) in Context: A Tale of Resistance. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 52. Leiden: Brill, 2019. vi + 296 pp. $87.00 (978-90-04-38328-9).

Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner, eds. Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia. History of Medicine in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. ix + 370 pp. Ill. $34.00 (978-981-4722-05-6).

Yohei Sasakawa. No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World. Trans. Rei Muroji. London: Hurst, 2019. x + 230 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-78738-137-7).

Carolin Schmitz. Los Enfermos En La espana Barroca Y El Pluralismo Medico: Espacios, Estrategias Y Actitudes. Estudios sobre la ciencia 71. Madrid: CSIC, 2018. 411 pp. Ill. €37.50 (9788400103910).

Andrew Scull. Psychiatry and Its Discontents. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xiv + 361 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-30549-6).

Kevin Siena. Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xii + 338 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-300-23352-0).

Keith Andrew Stewart. Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation. Studies in Ancient Medicine, no. 51. Leiden: Brill, 2019. x + 178 pp. $113.00 (978-90-04-38278-7).

Catherine Waldby. The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. viii + 240 pp. $24.95 (978-1-4780-0472-1).

Owen Whooley. On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the...