Books Received
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Alex Chase-Levenson. The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 308 pp. Ill. $99.99 (978-1-108-48554-8).
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Zachary Dorner. Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. viii + 262 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-226-70680-1).
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David A. Guba, Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. Intoxicating Histories. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. x + 302 pp. $37.95 (978-0-2280-0120-1).
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Trent MacNamara. Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 314 pp. Ill. $24.99 (978-1-108-46053-8).
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Charles Allan McCoy. Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. xii + 224 pp. $28.94 (978-1-62534-507-3).
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Jaipreet Virdi. Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xiv + 338 pp. Ill. $27.50 (978-0-226-69061-2).
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Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. x + 438 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-69304-0).
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Footnotes
* 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.
