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  • Books Received*
Naheed Ali. Understanding Hepatitis: An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xvi + 176 pp. $34.00 (978-1-5381-1724-8).
Mari Armstrong-Hough. Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xii + 174 pp. $27.95 (978-1-4696-4668-8).
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xviii + 310 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-520-30046-0).
Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. pp. Ill. $37.50 (978-0-226-55824-0).
Peter John Brownlee. The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xi + 249 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8122-5042-8).
Howard Chiang. After Eunichs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xx + 392 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-231-18578-3).
Jennifer J. Connor and Katherine Side, eds. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s–1940s. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2019. xvi + 392 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-7735-5487-0).
Amy Cooper. State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chavez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. x + 206 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-29929-0).
Claire Crignon and David Lefebvre, eds. Medecins et philosophes: Une histoire. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2019. 512 pp. €26.00 (978-2-271-09287-8).
Christine Cynn. Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Cote D’Ivoire. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018. xi + 240 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-8142-5498-1).
Fernando De Maio, Raj C. Shah, John Mazzeo, and David A. Ansell, eds. Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xvi + 454 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-61462-5).
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 294 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-5017-3393-2).
Jonathan Engel. Fat Nation: A History of Obesity in America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. vi + 210 pp. Ill. $32.00 (978-1-5381-1774-3).
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Mild: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xii + 276 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-295-74403-2).
David Gentilcore and Matthew Smith, eds. Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. x + 254 pp. Ill. $114.00 (978-1-350-05686-2).
Wendy Gonaver. The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xii +258 pp. Ill. $32.95 (978-1-4696-4844-6).
Anna Grillini. La Guerra in Testa: Esperienze e traumi di civili, profughi e soldati newl manicomio di Pergine Valsugana (1909–1924). Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 2018. 232 pp. Ill. €17.85 (978-88-15-27980-4).
John M. Harris, Jr. Professionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices that Shaped American Health Care. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2019. viii + 236 pp. Ill. $49.95 (978-1-4766-7636-4).
Heinrich Hartmann. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War. Ellen Yutzy Glebe, trans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019. xxiv + 256 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0-262-53632-5).
Bernice L. Hausman. Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Ithaca, N.Y.: IRL Press, 2019. xvi + 278 pp. $29.95 (978-1-5017-3562-2).
Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Fleming, and Lauren Kassell, eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxxv + 730 pp. $125.00 (9781107068025).
Peregrine Horden. Cultures of Healing: Medieval and After. Variorum Collected Studies...

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