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Medical History , Volume 64 , Issue 2: Contraception and Catholicism in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on Expert, Activist and Intimate Practices , April 2020 , pp. 298 - 299
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Received 1 October 2019 – 31 December 2019

Justin Barr, Of Life and Limb. Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019), pp. 302, £65, hardback, ISBN: 9781580469661.

José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, Entre el fiscal y el verdugo?Mateu Orfila i Rotger (1787–1853) y la toxicología del siglo XIX (Valencia: Publicacions de la Universitat de València (PUV), 2019), pp. 387, €23.50, ISBN: 9788491344872.

Mary Augusta Brazelton, Mass Vaccination. Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), pp. 258, $47.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781501739989.

Chris Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019), pp. 360, $104.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781478003618.

Michael Hinton, Victory over Disease. Resolving the Medical Crisis in the Crimean War, 1854–1856 (Warwick: Helion & Company, 2019), pp. 308, £29.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781911628316.

Esyllt Jones, Radical Medicine. The International Origins of Socialized Healthcare in Canada (Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2019), pp. 360, $28, paperback, ISBN: 9781927886168.

Helen King, Hippocrates Now. The ‘Father of Medicine’ in the Internet Age (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 272, £85, hardback, ISBN: 9781350005891.

Benjamin Kingsbury, The Dark Island. Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2019), pp. 208, $39.99, paperback, ISBN: 9781988545981.

Chris Mounsey, Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019), pp. 340, $39.50, paperback, ISBN: 9780813943329.

Diana Peschier, Lost Souls. Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 224, $115, hardback, ISBN: 9781788318075.

Alistair Ritch, Sickness in the Workhouse. Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834–1914 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019), pp. 312, £95, hardback, ISBN: 9781580469753.

Ian Smith, Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World. New Zealand Archaeology 1769–1860 (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2019), pp. 328, $59.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780947492489.

Jessica Wang, Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers. Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), pp. 344, $54.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781421409719.

James L. A. Webb Jr, The Guts of the Matter. A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 222, £18.99, paperback, ISBN: 9781108737067.

John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors. Patient Narratives Then and Now (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 220, £75, hardback, ISBN: 9781108476362.