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Medical History , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , October 2015, pp. 640 - 642
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W. Bruce Fye, Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 704, £25.99, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-998235-6.

Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (eds), Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2014), pp. 294, £40.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-909646-02-5.

Paul Weindling, Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. 334, £65.00, $120.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4411-7990-6.

Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 320, $20.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-226-27392-1.

John Walbridge, The Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen. Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English–Arabic Text (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2015), pp. 544, $69.96, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8425-2840-5.

Anna Marie Roos (ed.), The Correspondence of Dr Martin Lister (1639–1712). Volume One: 1662–1677 (Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill, 2015), pp. 960, €255.00, $330.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-22553-4.

Matthis Krischel, Urologie und Nationalsozialismus: Eine Studie zu Medizin und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014), pp. 220, €39.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10849-2.

Sarah S. Richardson, Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome (Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2015), pp. 304, $94.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5922-7.

Isla Fay, Health and the City: Disease, Environment and Government in Norwich, 1200–1575 (York: York Medieval Press, 2015), pp. 276, £50.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-903153-60-4.

Carole Rawcliffe, Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 445, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84383-836-4.

Claudia Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (Singapore: NUS Press, 2015), pp. 248, $34.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-9971-69-835-5.

Caroline Overy and E. M. Tansey (eds), The Development of Brain Banks in the UK c.1970–c.2010 (London: Queen Mary, University of London, 2015), pp. 136, £6.00, paperback, ISBN:  978-1-91019-502-4.

Mary Dobson, Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease (London: Quercus, 2015), pp. 608, £12.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-78206-943-0.

John D. Hamilton, The History of Infectious Diseases at Duke University in the Twentieth Century (Raleigh, NC: Lulu Publishing Services, 2015), pp. 340, $39.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4834-2376-0.

Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach (ed.), Geschichte der Prävention: Akteure, Praktiken, Instrumente (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015), pp. 256, €49.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10998-7.

Miranda Brown, The Art of Medicine in Early China: The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 251, $99.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-107-09705-6.

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Paris: Perrin Editions, 2015), pp. 420, €24.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-262-03944-8.

Palmira Fontes da Costa, Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 304, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-3123-3.

Michel Cymes, Hippocrate aux enfers: Les médecins des camps de la mort (Paris: Stock, 2015), pp. 216, €18.50, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-234-07803-1.

Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger and François Boller (eds), Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015), pp. 440, $244.80, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-444-63399-6.

John C. Burnham, Health Care in America: A History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), pp. 616, $34.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1608-3.

Valeria Finucci, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 288, $39.95, £29.95, €36.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-72545-4.

Deborah N. Losse, Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 200, $51.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8142-1272-1.

Elena Conis, Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 344, $27.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-92376-5.

Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (ed.), Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (London; New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 252, £85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-13-882390-7.

Services Historiques Six-Associés, Docteurs, guérisseurs et fossoyeurs: La médecine à Québec du XVIIe au XIXe siècle (Québec: Septentrion, 2015), pp. 126, C$14.95, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-89448-819-5.

Andrew Scull, Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), pp. 432, $39.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-691-16615-5.

Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg (eds), The Fate of Anatomical Collections (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 336, £75.00, hardback, ISBN:  978-1-4094-6815-8.

Alain Bauer and Roger Dachez, Une histoire de la médecine légale et de l’identification criminelle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015), pp. 148, €25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-13-059490-1.

Gérard Bonn, Du clystère au stéthoscope: Les débuts de la médecine scientifique, 1780–1830 (Paris: Éditions Glyphe, 2014), pp. 500, €26.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-35815-140-5.

Paul Kelton, Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight Against Smallpox, 1518–1824 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), pp. 296, $29.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8061-4688-1.

László Károly (ed.), A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A Critical Edition of A Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subḥān Qulï Khan (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. i–x $+$ 452, €161.00, $209.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-28256-8.

Compiled by Okumura Daisuke, University of Tokyo.