Books for Review

Canada

Wilful Neglect: The Federal Response to Tuberculosis among First Nations, 1867–1945 (McGill-Queens, 2025)
Jane Thomas [UNDER REVIEW]

A Healer and a Builder: The Life and Times of Dr. John R. Augustine (Friesen, 2025)
Philip W. Augustine

Hopelessness to Normalcy: The Remarkable History of Hemophilia Care in Canada (Friesen, 2025)
Man-Chiu Poon and Robert T. Card [UNDER REVIEW]

Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony (Alberta, 2025)
Krista Maxwell

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance (Alberta, 2025)
Tyler McCreary [UNDER REVIEW]

An Accidental History of Canada (McGill-Queen’s, 2024)
Edited by Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey L. Hudson [UNDER REVIEW]

When Disease Came To This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America (Cambridge, 2023)
Liza Piper [UNDER REVIEW]

Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity (Manitoba, 2023)
Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay [UNDER REVIEW]

Stored in the Bones: Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages (Manitoba, 2023)
Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville [UNDER REVIEW]

A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis (British Columbia, 2023)
Ryan Meili

Managing Federalism through Pandemic (Toronto, 2023)
Edited by Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale [UNDER REVIEW]

Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic (Toronto, 2022)
Edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe

Alcohol, Drugs & Addiction

Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink, and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury, 2025)
James Kneale

A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front (McGill-Queens, 2024)
Adam Zientek [UNDER REVIEW]

Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914 (McGill-Queens, 2024)
Hannah Halliwell

Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject (Chicago, 2024)
Jaeyoon Park

The Long War on Drugs (Duke, 2024)
Anne L. Foster

On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory (Duke, 2024)
Darin Weinberg

The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver (British Columbia, 2023)
Danya Fast

Biomedical Science

How Does Germline Regenerate? (Chicago, 2024)
Kate Maccord [UNDER REVIEW]

Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester, 2023)
Edited by Willemijn Ruberg, Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven and Sara Serrano Martínez

Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science (Duke, 2023)
Mike Fortun [UNDER REVIEW]

COVID-19 Pandemic

Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Toronto, 2024)
Edited by Jack Fong

Managing Federalism through Pandemic (Toronto, 2023)
Edited by Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale [UNDER REVIEW]

A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis (British Columbia, 2023)
Ryan Meili

Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed (Rutgers, 2024)
Edited by Teresa Politano

How COVID-19 Took Over the World: Lessons for the Future (Chicago, 2023)
Edited by Christine Loh

Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic (Toronto, 2022)
Edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe

Disability & Chronic Illness

Secrecy and Safety: A Cultural History of Seizures in Modern America (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Rachel Elder

Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (McGill-Queen’s, 2025)
Jaipreet Virdi [UNDER REVIEW]

Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis (Illinois, 2025)
Christin L. Hancock [UNDER REVIEW]

Hopelessness to Normalcy: The Remarkable History of Hemophilia Care in Canada (Friesen, 2025)
Man-Chiu Poon and Robert T. Card [UNDER REVIEW]

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948 (Manchester, 2024)
Edited by Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer

The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe (Alberta, 2023)
Reginald Weibe and Dorothy Woodman [UNDER REVIEW]

The Beautiful Unwanted: Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics (McGill-Queen’s, 2023)
Christopher Kaposy [UNDER REVIEW]

Missed and Dismissed Voices: Living with Hidden Chronic Health Problems (Toronto, 2023)
Alexander Segall [UNDER REVIEW]

Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-Than-Human Relations (Manitoba, 2023)
Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley with Smokie

Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial Paralysis (Rutgers, 2023)
Faye Linda Wachs

Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (Duke, 2023)
Mel Y. Chen [UNDER REVIEW]

Show Me Where It Hurts: Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography (Penn State, 2023)
Monica Chiu [UNDER REVIEW]

Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture (Duke, 2023)
Julie Avril Minich

Cancer Confidential: Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic (Toronto, 2022)
Charles Hayter [UNDER REVIEW]

Embodied Histories

Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic (Chicago, 2025)
Alison Bashford

Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Lan A. Li [UNDER REVIEW]

The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Rochelle Rives

The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany (Manchester, 2023)
Heidi Hausse [UNDER REVIEW]

Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial Paralysis (Rutgers, 2023)
Faye Linda Wachs

Epidemics/Pandemics

Wilful Neglect: The Federal Response to Tuberculosis among First Nations, 1867–1945 (McGill-Queens, 2025)
Jane Thomas [UNDER REVIEW]

Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Randall M. Packard [UNDER REVIEW]

Implementing a Global Health Programme: Smallpox and Nepal (Manchester, 2025)
Susan Heydon [UNDER REVIEW]

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid (Princeton, 2025)
Sheilagh C. Ogilvie [UNDER REVIEW]

SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic (Duke, 2024)
Belinda Kong [UNDER REVIEW]

When Disease Came To This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America (Cambridge, 2023)
Liza Piper [UNDER REVIEW]

Persisting Pandemics: Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID (Rutgers, 2023)
Powel H. Kazanjian

Form Follows Fever: Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849 (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024)
Christopher Cowell

The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS (Rutgers, 2023)
Matthew Kelly

The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Alfred Morabia [UNDER REVIEW]

Magic, Religion & Technology

Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic (Chicago, 2025)
Alison Bashford

Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations (Manchester, 2025)
Edited by Michael Stanley-Baker

Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century (Manchester, 2025)
Edited by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich [UNDER REVIEW]

Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990-2020 (Rutgers, 2024)
Martin Halliwell

The Promise and Peril of CRISPR (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Edited by Neal Baer

Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

Medicine Without Meds: Transforming Patient Care with Digital Therapies (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Dean Ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak

Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Andrew S. Lea [UNDER REVIEW]

Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health (Chicago, 2023)
Heidi Morefield [UNDER REVIEW]

Mental Health & Illness

Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933–1989 (McGill-Queen’s, 2025)
Frank Stahnisch

All Sky, Mirror Ocean: A Healing Manifesto (Alberta, 2024)
Brad Necyk

Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe: Practices, Routines and Experiences (Manchester, 2024)
Edited by Gundula Gahlen, Henriette Voelker, Volker Hess and Marianna Scarfone [UNDER REVIEW]

Frames of Minds: A History of Neuropsychiatry on Screen (Oxford, 2024)
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks [UNDER REVIEW]

Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value (Chicago, 2024)
Nima Bassiri [UNDER REVIEW]

Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain (Manchester, 2022)
Amy Milne-Smith [UNDER REVIEW]

Public Health

Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Laws, Ethics, and Public Health (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Daniel S. Goldberg [UNDER REVIEW]

Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short (Columbia, 2024)
Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin

The Struggle for Public Health: Seven People Who Saved the Lives of Millions and Transformed the Way We Live (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Fred C. Pampel

Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
David Barnes [UNDER REVIEW]

Vaccine Wars: The Two-Hundred-Year Fight for School Vaccinations (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Kim Tolley

Publics and their Health: Historical Problems and Perspectives (Manchester, 2023)
Edited by Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth

The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Alfredo Morabia [UNDER REVIEW]

Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time (Chicago, 2023)
Sandro Galea [UNDER REVIEW]

The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Peter J. Hotez [UNDER REVIEW]

Queer Health

Standardized Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (Chicago, 2025)
Ketil Slagstad

Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Shui-Yin Sharon Yam and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz [UNDER REVIEW]

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream (SUNY, 2025)
Edited by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green and Kyan Lynch

The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care (Columbia, 2023)
Kimberly D. Acquaviva

Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution (North Carolina, 2023)
Alison Li

Race, Empire & Colonialism

Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony (Alberta, 2025)
Krista Maxwell

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance (Alberta, 2025)
Tyler McCreary [UNDER REVIEW]

Brutal Treatments: Medicine and Colonial Violence at the End of Empire (Manchester, 2025)
Russel T. Moul [UNDER REVIEW]

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science (Columbia, 2024)
Edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley

Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (Pennsylvania, 2024)
Chelsea Berry [UNDER REVIEW]

When Disease Came To This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America (Cambridge, 2023)
Liza Piper [UNDER REVIEW]

Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity (Manitoba, 2023)
Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay [UNDER REVIEW]

Stored in the Bones: Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages (Manitoba, 2023)
Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville [UNDER REVIEW]

Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (Duke, 2023)
Mel Y. Chen [UNDER REVIEW]

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease (Yale, 2023)
Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Sex, Reproduction & Pediatrics

Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Emily Winderman [UNDER REVIEW]

Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams

Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Ilana Löwy

Motherhood Confined: Maternal Health in English Prisons, 1853–1955 (Manchester, 2024)
Rachel E. Bennett

Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (Chicago, 2024)
Judith A. Houck [UNDER REVIEW]

The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa (Rutgers, 2024)
Michelle Pentecost

Regulating Abortion: The Politics of US Abortion Policy (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Deborah R. McFarlane and Wendy L. Hansen [UNDER REVIEW]

Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England (Manchester, 2024)
Sam Fullerton

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide (Oxford, 2024)
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh [UNDER REVIEW]

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Kathleen M. Crowther [UNDER REVIEW]

Unseen Flesh: Gynaecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (Duke, 2023)
Nessette Falu

State Medicine & Health Policy

Feeling Blue: Colour and the Modern British Hospital (Manchester, 2025)
Victoria Bates [UNDER REVIEW]

Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence (McGill-Queens, 2023)
Edited by Jennifer Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter

Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution (Yale, 2023)
Andrew Seaton

Teaching & the Philosophy of History

Do Less Harm: Ethics for Health Historians (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Edited by Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie Smith [UNDER REVIEW]

United States

Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (North Carolina, 2025)
Jess Libow

The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Johns Hopkins, 2025)
Eram Alam

Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject (Chicago, 2024)
Jaeyoon Park

Regulating Abortion: The Politics of US Abortion Policy (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
Deborah R. McFarlane and Wendy L. Hansen

An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute (Columbia, 2024)
Natalie B. Aviles

Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020 (Rutgers, 2024)
Martin Halliwell

Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics (Johns Hopkins, 2024)
David Barnes [UNDER REVIEW]

Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine (Oxford, 2023)
Luke Messac

Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care (Rutgers, 2023)
Fumilayo Showers

Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins, 2023)
Andrew S. Lea [UNDER REVIEW]

War & Medicine

Behead and Cure: Humanitarian Work in the Vietnam War (McGill-Queen’s, 2025)
Susan Armstrong-Reid [UNDER REVIEW]

Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost its Way in the War on Terror (McGill-Queen’s, 2024)
Roy Eidelson

Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750 (McGill-Queen’s, 2024)
Matthew Neufeld [UNDER REVIEW]

A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front (McGill-Queens, 2024)
Adam Zientek [UNDER REVIEW]

Women & Gender

The Culture of Care in Britain since the Second World War (Bristol, 2025)
Bernice Martin

Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (North Carolina, 2025)
Jess Libow

Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Postwar Britain (Manchester, 2025)
Sarah Crook

Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (Chicago, 2024)
Judith A. Houck [UNDER REVIEW]

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide (Oxford, 2024)
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh [UNDER REVIEW]

Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain (McGill-Queen’s, 2023)
Heather Meek [UNDER REVIEW]