Book Reviews – Comptes-rendus de livres
he Canadian Bulletin of Medical History is looking for reviewers for the following new publications in the field of health and medical history. Le Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine est à la recherche de volontaires pour écrire les compte-rendus des livres en histoire de la médecine et de la santé qui se trouvent listés suivant.
For presses wishing to have books reviewed, please contact the editor responsible before sending books. Les maisons d’éditions doivent contacter les responsables de la rédaction avant d’expédier un livre pour en demander la recension.
The CBMH is searching for a new review editor for English language books. The book review editor selects new books for review or for review essays that suit the CBMH mandate, identifies and secures qualified reviewers, corresponds with reviewers and publishers, maintains a database of ongoing reviews, edits book review manuscripts in consultation with the author(s), and submits book review copy twice per year. If interested, please contact editor@cbmh-bchm.ca.
To review English language books, please contact Shannon Stettner at cbmhreviews@gmail.com
Pour proposer des compte-rendus des livres en français, veuillez contacter Jacques Bernier: Jacques.Bernier@hst.ulaval.ca
Books / Les livres
Abel, Emily K. The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America. Johns Hopkins University, 2013
Anderson, Robert G W and Jean Jones, eds.The Correspondence of Joseph Black. Ashgate, 2012.
Arsdall, Anne Van, ed. Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West- Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle. Ashgate, 2012.
Bates, Tina. A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform. Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2012.
Baya, Alexander R. Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease, Routledge, 2012.
Bhattacharya, Nandini. Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India. Liverpool University Press, 2012
Cornwall, Claudia. Catching Cancer: The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes. Rowman and Littlefield, 2013
Ferber, Sarah. The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human ‘Material’ in Modern Medical History. Ashgate 2012.
Fang, Xiaoping . Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China. Routledge, 2012.
Glassford, Sarah, and Amy Shaw, eds. “A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service”: Girls and Women of Canada and Newfoundland in the First World War. UBC Press, 2012.
Goc, Nicola. Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922- News Narratives in England and Australia. Ashgate, 2013
Greene, Jeremy A. and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, editors. Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Grypma, Sonya. China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Shaping of a Canadian Missionary Community. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012.
Halfmann, Drew. Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Hamilton, David. A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice. Pittsburgh: U Pitts Press, 2012.
Holz, Rose. The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World. University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Kennaway, James. Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease. Ashgate, 2012.
Kopperman, Paul ed. Regimental Practice by John Buchanan, M.D.- An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual (Ashgate/Lund Humphries, 2012)
Maimonides, Moses. On Hemorrhoids, Edited and Translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
McLaren, Angus. Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain. University Of Chicago Press, 2012
Monnais, Laurence, C. Michele Thompson and Ayo Wahlberg, eds. Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making. Cambridge, 2012.
Nguyen, Dr Johann. La réception de l’acupuncture en France: Une biographie revisitée de George Soulié de Morant (1878-1955) Editions L’Harmattan.
Power, Michael L. and Jay Schulkin, The Evolution of the Human Placenta. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Rieder, Philip. Anatomie d’une institution médicale: La Faculté de médecine de Genève (1876-1920). Editions BHMS, 2009.
Rowlinson, J. S. Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923-A Ruthless Chemist. Ashgate, 2012.
Sherwin, Allan. Bridging Two Peoples: Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843-1909. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.9
Stewart, Roderick and Sharon. Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011.
Valiani, Salimah. Rethinking Unequal Exchange: The Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets. U of T, 2012
Wise, Peter. A Matter of Doubt – the novel of Claude Bernard. CreateSpace and Societe des Ecrivains, Paris, 2011.
