Books Received

Mary Ann Baily and Thomas H. Murray, eds. Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening: New Technologies, New Challenges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi + 354 pp. $50.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9151-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9151-9).

Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xi + 296 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-8071-3404-7).

Michael Frampton. Embodiments of Will: Anatomical and Physiological Theories of Voluntary Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C.–A.D. 1300. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2008. xxxv + 623 pp. Ill. $100.00 (978-3-639-08294-4).

R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr. The Fluoride Wars: How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest-Running Political Melodrama. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ix + 383 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-470-44833-5).

Lara Freidenfelds. The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 242 pp. Ill. $60.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9245-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9245-5).

Ernest B. Gilman. Plague Writing in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xi + 295 pp. Ill. $35.00, £24.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-29409-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29409-4).

Martin Howard. Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice: The Emperor and His Doctors on St. Helena. Stroud, U.K.: The History Press, 2009. 253 pp. Ill. £20.00 (978-0-7524-4857-2).

Rebecca M. Kluchin. Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950–1980. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xi + 269 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-0-8135-4527-1).

Derek Phillips. Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 264 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-90-8555-042-6).

María M. Portuondo. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 335 pp. Ill. $45.00, £31.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-67534-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67534-3).

Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin. The Evolution of Obesity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. ix + 392 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9262-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9262-2).

Elizabeth Reis. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvii + 216 pp. Ill. $55.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9155-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9155-7).

Sabine Schleiermacher and Udo Schagen, eds. Wissenschaft macht Politik: Hochschule in den politischen Systembrüchen 1933 und 1945. Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft. Herausgegeben von Rüdiger vom Bruch Band 3. Munich: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 266 pp. Ill. €34.00 (978-3-515-09315-6).

Samantha Solimeo. With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland. Studies in Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xi + 192 pp. Ill. $72.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-4543-1), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-4544-8).

Jason Szabo. Incurable and Intolerable: Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. x + 295 pp. $49.95 (978-0-8135-4545-5).

Gregory M. Thomas. Treating the Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in France, 1914–1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ix + 259 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-8071-3436-8).

Andreas Vesalius. On The Fabric of the Human Body: Book V: The Organs of Nutrition and Generation. Trans. William Frank Richardson. Novato, Calif.: Norman Publishing, 2007. xix + 257 pp. Ill. $275.00 (978-0-930405-88-5).

Andreas Vesalius. On the Fabric of the Human Body: Book VI: The Heart and Associated Organs. Book VII: The Brain. Trans. William Frank Richardson. Novato, Calif.: Norman Publishing, 2009. xviii + 413 pp. Ill. $275.00 (978-0-930405-90-8).

Jeffrey R. Watt. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Covent. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe. Rochester, N...