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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 61 - October 2017

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Loren Graham, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 209, $24.95, hardback, ISBN: 9780674089051.

Michael R. Trimble, The Intentional Brain (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2016), pp. x, 308, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1949-7.

Andreas-Holger Maehle, Contesting Medical Confidentiality, Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain and Germany (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 168, $40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-40482-0.

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Teaching and Researching the History of Medicine in the Era of (Big) Data: Reflections

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Simon Hofmann, Umstrittene Körperteile: Eine Geschichte der Organspende in der Schweiz (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016), pp. 330, €37.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-8376-3232-3.

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Digitizing Doctors: Methodologies for Creating a Database from Historical Directories of Physicians

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Laurence Monnais, Médecine(s) et santé: Une petite histoire globale – 19e et 20e siècles (Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montreal, 2016), pp. 258, €31,00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7606-3638-5.

Kenneth G. Zysk, The Indian System of Human Marks (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. xvi, 954, 2 vols, €249,00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9789004299726.

Josef Rösch, An Interventional Radiology Odyssey: The Story of My Life and Work (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 101, €72.79, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9783319338187.

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MDH volume 61 Issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Stuart Justman, The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 272, hardback, $79.99, ISBN: 987-1-137-52328-0.

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Susanne Kreutzer and Karen Nolte (eds), Deaconesses in Nursing Care: International Transfer of a Female Model of Life and Work in the 19th and 20th Century (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2016), pp. 230, €46.00, soft cover, ISBN: 978-3-515-11355-7.

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Annals and Analytics: The Practice of History in the Age of Big Data

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Andrew Schonebaum, Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2016), pp. 296, $50,00, hardcover, ISBN: 9780295995182.

Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (eds), Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2014), pp. 276, £40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-909646-02-5.

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Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond, Wellcome Collection, London, 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

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Robert G. McKinnell, The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. xvi, 196, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789004286795.

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