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Medical History , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 547
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Received 1 April 2020 – 30 June 2020

Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine. The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 368, £90, hardback, ISBN: 9780198850687.

Claes, Tinne, Corpses in Belgium Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 323+xv, €77.99, hardback, ISBN: 9783030201142.

Davis, Adam J., The Medieval Economy of Salvation. Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019), pp. 336, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781501742125.

Drinot, Paulo, The Sexual Question. A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 328, £23.99, paperback, ISBN: 9781108717281.

Durbach, Nadja, The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State Hardcover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 363, £34.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781108483834.

Fox, Robert M. and Landon, Chris, Avoiding Medical Errors: 100 Rules to Help You Survive Mistakes by Doctors and Hospitals (Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), pp. 176, $28.00, hardback, ISBN 978153813571.

Mayer, Andreas, The Science of Walking. Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century, trans. by Tilman Skowroneck and Robin Blanton (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), pp. 232, $50.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780226328355.

Roth, Cassia, A Miscarriage of Justice. Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020), pp. 376, $32.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781503611320.

Pierce Salguero, C. (ed.), Buddhism and Medicine. An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), pp. 424, $150, hardback, ISBN: 9780231189361.

Totelin, Laurence and Flemming, Rebecca (eds), Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond. Essays in Honour of Vivian Nutton (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2020), pp. 213+xxiv, £58.50, hardback, ISBN: 9781910589786.