Received 1 March – 30 June 2011
The inclusion of a title does not preclude the possibility of subsequent review. Items received, other than those assigned for review, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Wellcome Library.
Alberti Samuel J.M.M., Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xv + 237, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-958458-1
Au Sokhieng, Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. x + 263, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-226-03164-4
Bagliani Agostino Paravicini. (ed.), Terapie e guarigioni (Florence: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010), pp. xiii + 418, €62.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-8450-406-7
Bauer Joachim, Kluge Harald. (eds), Das wissenschaftliche Gesamtwerk des Jenaer Nervenarztes Hans Berger (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011), pp. 330, €48.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09787-1
Meli Domenico Bertoloni, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xii + 439, £23.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8018-9904-1
Budd Adam, John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. xxi + 302, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6306-5
Carlson Elof Axel, Mutation: The History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics (Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2011), pp. viii + 163, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-193611330-9.
Crisciani Chiara, Zuccolin Gabriella. (eds), Michele Savonarola: Medicina e cultura di corte, Micrologus' Library 37 (Florence: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011), pp. xxii + 299, €48.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-8450-400-5
Dalzell Thomas G., Freud's Schreber between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis (London: Karnac Books, 2011), pp. xx + 401, £24.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85575-883-4
Dyck Ericka, Fletcher Christopher. (eds), Locating Health, Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, No. 2 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), pp. xv + 243, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84893-149-7
Fox Daniel M., The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010), pp. xii + 168, $29.95/£20.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-520-26238-6
Gillette Aaron, Eugenics and the Nature–Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology [2007], digital rpr. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. ix + 239, £17.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-230-10845-5
Eliza Glaze Florence, Nance Brian K. (eds), Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Micrologus' Library 39 (Florence: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011), pp. xii + 570, €72.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-88-8450-401-2
Goodey C.F., A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. vix + 381, £35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4094-2021-7
Harrison Paul, Numbers Ronald L., Shank Michael H. (eds), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. x + 416, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-226-31783-0
Heydon Susan, Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998 (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2009), pp. xx + 359, Rs 695, hardback, ISBN: 978-81-250-3697-5
Kyr Paulus, Die Gesundheit ist ein köstlich Ding (Hermannstadt: Schiller Verlag, 2010), pp. 384, €19.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-941271-33-3
Lewis Bradley, Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xv + 214, $50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8018-9902-7
Linker Beth, War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 291, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-48253-8
McCandless Peter, Slavery, Disease and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xv + 297, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-00415-3
McCrae Morrice, Simpson: The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer [2010] (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2011), pp. xiv + 287, £12.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78027-025-8
McVaugh M.R. (ed.), Tractatus de humido radicali, Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia, Vol. 12 (Barcelona: University of Barcelona Press, 2011), pp. 633, €48.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-9775-076-7
Nordlund Christer, Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970 (Sagamore Beach, MA: Watson Publishing International LLC, 2011), pp. x + 297, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-88135-475-1
Nuttall Alison, Mander Rosemary. (eds), James Young Simpson: Lad o Pairts (Renfrewshire: Scottish History Press, 2011), pp. xii + 190 (+ 25 plates), £19.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9564477-1-5
Peng Fred C.C., Does Alzheimer's Disease Really Exist? (Taipei: Ho-Chi Book Publishing Co., 2008), pp. xv + 128, US$10.00 paperback, ISBN: 978-986-126-512-4
Rudnytsky Peter L., Preston Gillian. (eds), Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart, The History of Psychoanalysis Series (London: Karnac Books, 2011), pp. xvi + 362, £29.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85575-878-0
Shelly Robert, Napoleon and I: Or the Significant Miss Fanny Mitchell (Shrewsbury: Quiller Publishing Limited, 2011), pp. 243, £6.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84689-114-4
Shepherd Gordon M., Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 291, £40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19- 539150-3
Singh Harkishan, Pharmaceutical History of India (Delhi: Vallabh Prakashan, 2011), pp. xvi + 322, Rs 630 (overseas) hardback, ISBN: 978-81-85731-55-1
Stearns Justin K., Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. xx + 279, £31.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8018-9873-0
Stephens Elizabeth, Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present, Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011), pp. viii + 166, £55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84631-644-9
Tavera Marie, Barras Vincent, L'Hôpital de l'Enfance: Histoire d'une Institution Pionniere de la Pédiatrie Suisse, Hors série (Lausanne: Éditions BHMS, 2011), pp. xi + 187, €36.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2- 9700640-3-9
Ueyama Takahiro, Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London (Palo Alto, CA: The Society for the Promotoin of Science and Scholarship, 2010), pp. xv + 320, $55.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-930664-29-9 (second copy).
Verhave Jan Peter, The Moses of Malaria: Nicolaas H. Swellengrebel (1885–1970) Abroad and at Home (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2011), pp. 317, €39.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-5235-208-4
Whorton James C., The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play[2010] (rpr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxii +412, £9.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-19-960599-6
Wolters Christine, Tuberkulose und Menschenversuche im Nationalsozialismus: Das Netzwerk hinter den Tbc-Experimenten im Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin 10 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011), pp. 286 + 18 plates, €49.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-515-09399-6