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Books Received*
Warwick Anderson. Spectacles of Waste. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2024. 186 pp. £14.99 (978-1-509557417).
Carol R. Byerly. Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas. Tuscalossa: University of Alabama Press, 2024. xviii + 414 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-8173-6142-6).
Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic, ed. Intersections in Healing: Academic Libraries and the Health Humanities. Medical Library Association Books. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. xvi + 272 pp. Ill. $75.00 (978-1-5381-7132-5).
Thomas R. Cech. The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets. New York: Norton, 2024. 292 pp. Ill. $28.99 (978-1-324-05068-1).
Sheena Evans. Bloomsbury, Belsen, Oxford: Janet Vaughan—Medical Pioneer. Chester, U.K.: University of Chester Press, 2024. xxiv + 384 pp. Ill. £19.99 (978-1-910481-26-4).
Anna Bonnell Freidin. Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. xxii + 314 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-691-22627-9).
Robert S. Gibson. Thomas Jefferson and Early American Healthcare: Academic Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Savannah, Ga.: Frederic C. Beil, 2023. xiv + 374 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-1-929490-61-5).
Rachel Hall-Clifford. Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2024. xviii + 264 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-262-54776-5).
Wendy Kline. Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam. History of Health and Illness. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2024. xii + 250 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-5095-5266-5).
Eric C. Nystron and R. A. R. Edwards. Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. xvi + 348 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-62534-763-3). [End Page 473]
John Parascandola. A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing. New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond. West Lafayette, In.: Purdue University Press, 2024. xiv + 182 pp. $39.99 (978-1-61249-963-5).
Naomi Seidman. Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2024. xii + 352 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-1-5036-3926-3).
Jules Skotnes-Brown. Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948. Animals, History, Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. xiv + 324 pp. Ill. $64.95 (978-1-4214-4856-5).
Christa Teston. Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care. Health Communication. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. xii + 184 pp. Ill. $54.95 (978-1-4214-4876-3). [End Page 474]
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* 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.
