Books Received

Rima D. Apple, Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn, eds. Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. xiii + 235 pp. Ill. $34.95 (paperbound, 978-0-299-28614-9), $24.95 (e-book, 978-0-299-28613-2).

Andrea Bergler. Von Armenpflegern und Fursorgeschwestern: Kommunale Wohlfahrtspflege und Geschlechterpolitik in Berlin und Charlottenburg 1890 bis 1914. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 392 pp. Ill. €70.00 (978-3-515-09935-6).

Elaine G. Breslaw. Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 2012. xiv + 237 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-8147-8717-5).

Nancy Cervetti. S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician. University Park: Penn State Press, 2012. xii + 295 pp. Ill. $79.95 (978-0-271-05403-2).

Pratik Chakrabarti. Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. x + 304 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-58046-408-6).

Nathaniel Comfort. The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. xvii + 316 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-300-16991-1).

Filomena de Sousa and Gonzalo Munevar, eds. Sex, Reproduction and Darwinism. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. xvi + 262 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-84893-264-7).

Francois Delaporte. Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 2012. x + 180 pp. $26.00 (paperbound, 978-0-8232-4250-4), $90.00 (cloth, 978-0-8232-4249-8).

Joseph Dumit. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 262 pp. Ill. $23.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8223-4871-9), $84.95 (cloth, 978-0-8223-4860-3).

Nicholas Everett. The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xviii + 445 pp. Ill. $36.95 (978-0-8020-9550-3).

Heiner Fangerau and Irmgard Muller. Faszinosum des Verborgenen: Der Harnstein und die (Re-)Prasentation des Unsichtbaren in der Urologie. Stuttgart: Franz Steinger Verlag, 2012. 142 pp. Ill. €32.00 (978-3-515-10034-2).

Robert W. Fogel. Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 173 pp. Ill. $27.99 (978-1-107-66581-1).

Joy V. Fuqua. Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 201 pp. Ill. $23.95 (978-0-8223-5126-9).

Sonya Grypma. China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. xxi + 305 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-1-55458-627-1).

Guy R. Hasegawa. Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University, 2012. xiii + 126 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8093-3130-7).

Ursula Hirter-Trub. Zur Geschichte der Magistralrezeptur. Bern: SGGP/SSHP, 2012. xiv + 373 pp. Ill. No price given. (3-9522758-7-5).

Beatrix Hoffman. Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xxxv + 319 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-226-34803-2).

Sonia Horn and Alexander Ablogin. Faszination Josephinum: Die anatomischen Wachspraparate und ihr Haus. Austria: Verlagshaus der Arzte, 2012. 184 pp. Ill. €24.90 (978-3-99052-005-5).

Manfred Horstmanshoff, Helen King, and Claus Zittel, eds. Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe. Boston: Brill, 2012. xxvi + 772 pp. $297.00 (978-90-04-22918-1).

Kimberly Jensen. Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy & a Life in Activism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xiii + 346 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-295-99224-2).

David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry. Medical Licensing and Discipline in America: A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards. New York: Lexington Books, 2012. xx + 357 pp. Ill. $37.99 (paperbound, 978-0-7391-7439-5), $85.00 (cloth, 978-0-7391-7438-8).

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