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  • Books Received*
Jeanne Abrams. Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xi + 226 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-87081-941-4).
Denyse Baillargeon. Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970. Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. xiii + 232 pp. Ill. $38.95 (978-1-55458-058-3).
Susan E. Bell. DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xi + 218 pp. Ill. $74.50 (cloth, 978-1-59213-918-7), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-1-59213-919-4).
George A. Bonanno. The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss. New York: Basic Books, 2009. ix + 229 pp. Ill. $25.95 (paperbound, 978-0-465-01360-9).
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 266 pp. $108.00 (cloth, 978-0-521-88863-9), $45.00 (paperbound, 978-0-521-71688-8).
Louis Breger. A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books, 2009. vii + 137 pp. $24.95 (978-0-465-01735-5).
Florian Bruns. Medizinethik im Nationalsozialismus: Entwicklungen und Protagonisten in Berlin (1939-1945). Geschichte und Philosophie Der Medizin Band 7. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 225 pp. Ill. €45.00 (978-3-515-09226-5).
W. F. Bynum and Caroline Overy, eds. Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, 1865-1895. Supplement no. 28 to Medical History. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009. xix + 329 pp. £35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-85484-124-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-85484-124-0).
Elsa M. Cappelletti and Giuseppe Ongaro, eds. Le Piante Dell'egitto il Balsamo (Venezia, 1592). Marostica, Italy: Centro Studi Prospero Alpini, 2009. v + 207 pp. Ill. (978-88-87073-89-8). [End Page 158]
Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret, eds. Vulgariser la médecine: Du style médical en France et en Italie. Geneva: Droz, 2009. 349 pp. Ill. €37.95 (978-2-600-01263-8).
Anne-Lise Christensen, Elkhonon Goldberg, and Dmitri Bougakov, eds. Luria's Legacy in the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xi + 198 pp. Ill. $49.50 (978-0-19-517670-4).
Ana D. Cleveland and Donald B. Cleveland. Health Informatics for Medical Librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009. xvi + 288 pp. Ill. $95.00 (paperbound, 978-1-55570-627-2).
Jonathan A. Edlow. The Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. xiii + 245 pp. $27.50 (978-0-300-12558-0).
José Luiz de Andrade Franco and José Augusto Drummond. Proteçao à Natureza e Identidade Nacional no Brasil, anos 1920-1940. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 2009. 267 pp. Ill. R$35.00 (978-85-7541-171-1).
Elizabeth Lane Furdell. Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin. History of Science and Medicine Library, vol. 9. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xii + 194 pp. $158.00 (978-90-04-17250-0).
John S. Haller, Jr. The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xiv + 191 pp. $49.95 (978-0-8135-4583-7).
Bert Hansen. Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. ix + 348 pp. Ill. $75.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-4526-4), $37.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-4576-9).
David W. Haslam and Fiona Haslam. Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009. x + 326 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth, 978-1-84631-093-5), $39.95 (paperbound, 978-1-84631-094-2).
Dan Healey. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x + 252 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-87580-405-7).
D. A. Henderson. Smallpox—The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books...

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