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Ellen J. Amster. Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. xiv + 334 pp. Ill. $60.00 (978-0-292-74544-5).
Charlotte Biltekoff. Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi + 208 pp. Ill. $22.95 (978-0-8223-5544-1).
Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson, eds. Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. vi + 206 pp. $29.95 (978-1-4399-0980-5).
Joan Cadden. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 327 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-0-8122-4537-0).
Stephen C. Craig. In the Interest of Truth: The Life and Science of Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg. Fort Sam Houston, Tx.: Office of the Surgeon General, 2013. cxlviii + 309 pp. Ill. No price given.
Johanna Tayloe Crane. Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiii + 208 pp. $27.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8014-7917-5), $89.95 (cloth, 978-0-8014-5195-9).
Angela N. H. Creager. Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi + 489 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-01780-8).
Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman, eds. One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxxiv + 447 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-19-870311-2).
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Laurinda S. Dixon. The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, CA. 1500–1700. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. xii + 254 pp. Ill. $89.95 (978-0-271-05935-8).
Lynne Fallwell. Modern German Midwifery, 1885–1960. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine no. 13. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xiii + 263 pp. $99.00 (9781848934283).
Alison S. Fell and Christine E. Hallett, eds. First World War Nursing: New Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Modern History, no. 11. New York: Routledge, 2013. vi + 216 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-0-415-83205-2).
Frank Huisman and Harry Oosterhuis, eds. Health and Citizenship: Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, no. 18. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xiii + 283 pp. $99.00 (978-84893-432-0).
Christian Laes, C. F. Goodey, and M. Lynn Rose, eds. Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies A Capite Ad Calcem. Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 356. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xiii + 318 pp. Ill. $178.00 (978-9004248311).
Jean M. Langford. Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. vii + 263 pp. $25.00 (978-0-8166-8718-3).
Claire Langhamer. The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxi + 289 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-19-959443-6).
John Leeton. Test Tube Revolution: The Early History of IVF. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2013. xiii + 90 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-922235-06-0).
Philip A. Mackowiak. Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 225 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-19-993777-6).
James C. Mohr. Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 216 pp. Ill. $21.95 (978-1-4214-1142-2).
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. vii + 300 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-08602-6). [End Page 222]
John Scanlan. Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 188 pp. Ill. $29.00 (978-1-78023-178-5).
Marika Seigel. The Rhetoric of Pregnancy. Foreward by Jane Pincus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiv + 183 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-07191-6).
Jutta Gisela Sperling, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham, Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2013. xv + 319 pp. Ill. $129.95 (978-1-4094-4860-0).
James F. Stark. The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875–1920. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, no. 21. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xi + 251 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-84893-446-7).
John Stewart. Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 12. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. ix + 234 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84893-429-0).
Charity Vogel. The Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiii + 296 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-0-8014-4908-6).
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