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Jess Libow. Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. xvi + 200 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-4696-8903-6).
Michael Oriard. Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. xiv + 290 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-1-4696-9064-3).
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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.
