The Canadian Journal of Health History is looking for reviewers for the following new publications in the field of health and medical history.
For presses wishing to have books reviewed, please contact the editor responsible before sending books.
Books for review (English)
Last updated: September, 2023
| To review English language books, please contact: Travis Hay, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Humanities Mount Royal University  E-mail |
Fall/Winter Catalogues 2023:
Titles of Interest to CJHH
University of British Columbia Press
A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis
By Ryan Meili
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
By Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan
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
By Charles Hayter
What?s in Your Genome?: 90% of Your Genome Is Junk
By Laurence A. Moran
Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
Walter S . DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, and Martin D . Schwartz
Managing Federalism through Pandemic
Edited by Kathy L . Brock and Geoffrey Hale
Missed and Dismissed Voices: Living with Hidden Chronic Health Problems
Alexander Segall
Making Gender: Big Pharma, HPV Vaccine Policy, and Women?s Ontological Decision-Making
By Michelle Wyndham West
McGill Queen?s University Press
Hungry and Starving: Voices of the Great Soviet Famine, 1928?1934
James R. Gibson
A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front
By Adam Zientek
Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870?1914
Hannah Halliwell
Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence
Edited by Jennifer Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Heather Meek
The Beautiful Unwanted: Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics
By Christopher Kaposy
Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response
By Julia Smith
Doing Harm: How the World?s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror
By Roy J. Eidelson
University of Manitoba Press
Stored in the Bones Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages
Agnieszka Paw?owska-Mainville
Plundering the North A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay
Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-Than-Human Relations
Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley with Smokie
University of Alberta Press
The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel?s Moral Universe
Reginald Weibe and Dorothy Woodman
All Sky, Mirror Ocean A Healing Manifesto
Brad Necyk
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities Colonial Extractivism and Wet?suwet?en Resistance
Tyler McCreary
Columbia University Press
The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness
Quinn Eastman
Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short
Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin
The Suicidal Person: A New Look at a Human Phenomenon
Konrad Michel
The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
by Kimberly D. Acquaviva
John Hopkins University Press
Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
Kathleen M. Crowther
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist?s Warning
Peter J. Hotez
We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced
Stanley Sabine and John Wenz
The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Healthcare
Jeremy Howick
Introduction to US Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Donald A. Barr
Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth Century America
Andrew S. Lea
Medicine Without Meds: Transforming Patient Care with Digital Therapies
Dean ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak
The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19
Alfred Morabia
Duke University Press
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Julie Avril Minich
The Long War on Drugs
Anne L. Foster
Unseen Flesh: Gynaecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
Nessette Falu
Oxford University Press
Your Money or Your Life Debt Collection in American Medicine
Luke Messac
Medicare for All A Citizen’s Guide
Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson, Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal
Yale University Press
Diabetes A History of Race and Disease
Arleen Marcia Tuchman
Rutgers University Press
Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano
Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care
By Fumilayo Showers
Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial Paralysis
By Faye Linda Wachs
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
By Matthew Kelly
The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
By Michelle Pentecost
The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
By Danya Fast
Penn State University Press
Show Me Where It Hurts: Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
By Monica Chiu
University of Chicago Press
Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health
Heidi Morefield
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Kate Maccord
Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time
Sandro Galea
How COVID-19 Took Over the World: Lessons for the Future
Edited by Christine Loh
Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance: Highly Skilled Migrants in the U.S.
Nina Zeldes
University of North Carolina Press
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
By Alison Li
Duke University Press
Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
Mel Y. Chen
Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science
By Mike Fortun
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Julie Avril Minich