English Books for Review
The Canadian Journal of Health History is actively looking to assess new titles in the field of health and medical history and for people to review these new publications. We welcome book reviews written by graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars. Reviews are typically between 800 and 1000 words.
Presses that have books to be reviewed must contact the editor responsible before sending books.
English Book Review Editor
Matthew Wiseman
Lecturer
Department of History
University of Waterloo
matthew.wiseman@uwaterloo.ca
French Book Review Editor
Alexandre Klein
Professeur auxiliaire
École des sciences infirmières
Université d’Ottawa
aklein@uottawa.ca
Our 2023-2024 English language book titles are below. Please contact Matthew Wiseman (matthew.wiseman@uwaterloo.ca) if you are interested in reviewing one or more of them.
University of Alberta Press
All Sky, Mirror Ocean A Healing Manifesto
Brad Necyk
The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe
Reginald Weibe and Dorothy Woodman
Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
Krista Maxwell
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance
Tyler McCreary
University of British Columbia Press
A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis
Ryan Meili
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan
University of Manitoba Press
Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-Than-Human Relations
Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley with Smokie
Stored in the Bones Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages
Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville
McGill Queen’s University Press
A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front
Adam Zientek
Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914
Hannah Halliwell
The Beautiful Unwanted: Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics
Christopher Kaposy
Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response
Julia Smith
Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror
Roy J. Eidelson
Hungry and Starving: Voices of the Great Soviet Famine, 1928-1934
James R. Gibson
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618–1968
Stuart Anderson
Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence
Edited by Jennifer Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Heather Meek
University of Toronto Press
Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic
Edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe
Cancer Confidential: Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic
Charles Hayter
Making Gender: Big Pharma, HPV Vaccine Policy, and Women’s Ontological Decision-Making
Michelle Wyndham West
Managing Federalism through Pandemic
Edited by Kathy L . Brock and Geoffrey Hale
Missed and Dismissed Voices: Living with Hidden Chronic Health Problems
Alexander Segall
Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Jack Fong
Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
Walter S . DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, and Martin D . Schwartz
What‘s in Your Genome? 90% of Your Genome Is Junk
Laurence A. Moran
Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity
Melissa Kravetz
University of Chicago Press
Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject
Jaeyoon Park
Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health
Heidi Morefield
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Kate Maccord
How COVID-19 Took Over the World: Lessons for the Future
Edited by Christine Loh
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Kate Maccord
Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement
Judith A. Houck
Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value
Nima Bassiri
Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance: Highly Skilled Migrants in the U.S.
Nina Zeldes
Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time
Sandro Galea
Columbia University Press
An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute
Natalie B. Aviles
Form Follows Fever: Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849
Christopher Cowell
Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short
Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin
The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
Kimberly D. Acquaviva
Medicine in the Post-consumerist Society: A Philosophical Overview
Evangelos Koumparoudis
Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science
Edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley
The Suicidal Person: A New Look at a Human Phenomenon
Konrad Michel
The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness
Quinn Eastman
Duke University Press
Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science
Mike Fortun
Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
Mel Y. Chen
The Long War on Drugs
Anne L. Foster
On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory
Darin Weinberg
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Julie Avril Minich
SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Belinda Kong
Unseen Flesh: Gynaecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
Nessette Falu
John Hopkins University Press
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning
Peter J. Hotez
Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth Century America
Andrew S. Lea
Introduction to US Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Donald A. Barr
Medicine Without Meds: Transforming Patient Care with Digital Therapies
Dean ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak
The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression
Rochelle Rives
Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
Kathleen M. Crowther
The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Healthcare
Jeremy Howick
The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
Edited by Neal Baer
The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19
Alfred Morabia
Regulating Abortion: The Politics of US Abortion Policy
Deborah R. McFarlane and Wendy L. Hansen
We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced
Stanley Sabine and John Wenz
We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
Alison Li
Penn State University Press
Show Me Where It Hurts: Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
Monica Chiu
Rutgers University Press
The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Danya Fast
Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care
Fumilayo Showers
Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial Paralysis
Faye Linda Wachs
Persisting Pandemics: Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID
Powel H. Kazanjian
The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Michelle Pentecost
Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
Matthew Kelly
Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990-2020
Martin Halliwell
Yale University Press
Diabetes A History of Race and Disease
Arleen Marcia Tuchman
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps
Dan Healey
Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution
Andrew Seaton
Oxford University Press
Frames of Minds: A History of Neuropsychiatry on Screen
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Medicare for All A Citizen’s Guide
Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson, Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal
Your Money or Your Life Debt Collection in American Medicine
Luke Messac
Manchester University Press
Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe: Practices, Routines and Experiences
Edited by Gundula Gahlen, Henriette Voelker, Volker Hess and Marianna Scarfone
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity
Jane Brooks
Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England
Sam Fullerton
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain
Amy Milne-Smith