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Volume 61 - October 2017

Book Review

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

Judith Godden, Crown Street Women’s Hospital: A History, 1893–1983 (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London: Allen & Unwin, 2016), pp. xi, 382, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-74331-840-9.

Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 384, £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-19-871772-0.

Philip Kuhn, Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. xxi, 443, $120.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4985-0522-2.

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

Patrizia Guarnieri, Italian Psychology and Jewish Migration under Fascism from Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xv, 275, $100.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-137-30655-5.

Gerrit Bos, Maimonides Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 16–21: A parallel Arabic–English edition (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2016), pp. xxix, 204, $89.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-842-52843-6.

Tracey Loughran, Shell Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 279, £75, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-12890-3.

Sarah Chaney, Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm (London: Reaktion Books, 2017), pp. 315, 55 illus, £20.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78023-750-3.

Sasha Handley, Sleep in Early Modern England (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2016), pp. xii + 280, £25.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780300220391.

Nancy Rose Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xviii, 353, paperback, $26.95, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5965-4.

Colleen Derkatch, Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016) pp. xi, 238, $41.80, hardback, ISBN-13:978-0-226-34584-0.

Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala (eds.), Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. xii, 311, £ 75, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-3834-8.

Lynda Payne, The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713–88 (New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 236, SFr.103/€94.95/£64/$US94.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4331-2319-1.

Shelley Z. Reuter, Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to be Responsible (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), pp. 264, $27,00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8166-9996-4.

C. F. Goodey, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future (Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. viii, 178, £79.00, hardback, £25.49 kindle, ISBN: 978-0-415-82200-8 (hbk) and 978-0-203-55665-8 (ebk).

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