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Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-1980 性别化荷尔蒙二元论与 "荷尔蒙依赖性癌症 "类别的发展,1940-1980 年
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915270
Gina Surita
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Books Received* 收到的书籍*
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915280
{"title":"Books Received*","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a915280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a915280","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Books Received* &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Joseph N. Abraham. &lt;em&gt;Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation&lt;/em&gt;. Hidden Hills Press, 2020. xxiv + 308 pp. Ill. n.p. (978-0-578-68059-0). Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen, eds. &lt;em&gt;Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World&lt;/em&gt;. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023. x + 370 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-1-7936-5122-8). Marie Baudoin. &lt;em&gt;The Art of Childbirth&lt;/em&gt;. Cathy McClive, ed. and trans. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 98. New York: Iter Press, 2022. x + 244 pp. Ill. $54.95 (978-1-64959-078-7). Kathleen M. Brown. &lt;em&gt;Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition&lt;/em&gt;. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 448 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-512823271). Katherine Fierlbeck and Gregory P. Marchildon. &lt;em&gt;The Boundaries of Medicare: Public Health Care Beyond the Canada Health Act&lt;/em&gt;. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. x + 196 pp. $34.95 (978-0-2280-1632-8). Lewis A. Grossman. &lt;em&gt;Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 406 pp. Ill. $37.99 (978-0-19-061275-7). Gregory Hanlon. &lt;em&gt;Death Control in the West, 1500–1800: Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England&lt;/em&gt;. London: Routledge, 2023. xx + 308 pp. Ill. $39.16 (978-1-03-226758-6). Lisa Haushofer. &lt;em&gt;Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition&lt;/em&gt;. California Studies in Food and Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. xii + 178 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-39039-3). Heidi Hausse. &lt;em&gt;The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany&lt;/em&gt;. Social Histories of Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xiv + 274 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-1-5261-6065-2). Klaus Hoeyer. &lt;em&gt;Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare&lt;/em&gt;. Infrastructures Series. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023. 314 pp Ill. $50.00 (978-0-262-54541-9). &lt;p&gt;*The &lt;em&gt;Bulletin&lt;/em&gt; reserves freedom of decision as to the publications to be included in this section. Items received, other than those reviewed, are ultimately incorporated into the collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 527]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Allan V. Horwitz. &lt;em&gt;Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types&lt;/em&gt;. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. xii + 228 pp. $35.00 (978-1-4214-4610-3). Guian A. McKee. &lt;em&gt;Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care&lt;/em&gt;. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. x + 382 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-5128-2393-6). Kevin McQueeney. &lt;em&gt;A City Without ","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138743897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR by Tricia Starks (review) 香烟与苏联人:特里西娅-斯塔克斯著的《苏联的吸烟情况》(评论)
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915275
Alexei B. Kojevnikov
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Patients, Disability, Syphilis, and History 患者、残疾、梅毒和病史
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915267
Janet Golden
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Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization" 进步与病理学语法》:非洲、癌症和 "文明病 "的递归史
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915269
Thandeka Cochrane, David Reubi
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Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing ed. by Sarah Star (review) 亨利-丹尼尔与中古英语医学写作的兴起》,莎拉-斯塔编(评论)
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915273
Claire Burridge
{"title":"Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing ed. by Sarah Star (review)","authors":"Claire Burridge","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a915273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a915273","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Sarah Star &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Claire Burridge &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Sarah Star, ed. &lt;em&gt;Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing&lt;/em&gt;. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xii + 212 pp. $55.00 ( 978-1-4875-2953-6). &lt;p&gt;Henry Daniel, an English Dominican friar active in the fourteenth century, is not a household name in the history of medicine, even among many medievalists. Yet, as &lt;em&gt;Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing&lt;/em&gt; readily illustrates, Daniel and his surviving Middle English medical treatises (the &lt;em&gt;Liber Uricrisiarum&lt;/em&gt;, a diagnostic text on uroscopy, and the so-called &lt;em&gt;Aaron Danielis&lt;/em&gt;, a herbal) deserve to be better known and further studied—and not exclusively by medical historians.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Edited by Sarah Star, &lt;em&gt;Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing&lt;/em&gt; introduces Daniel and the significance of his work, focusing primarily on the major &lt;em&gt;Liber Uricrisiarum&lt;/em&gt;, a text produced and revised between &lt;em&gt;c&lt;/em&gt;. 1375–82, while also considering his slightly later herbal treatise. Daniel was a pathbreaker in the vernacularization of medicine, a fact to which he alerts his readers: he explicitly &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 513]&lt;/strong&gt; claims to be the first person to write on uroscopy in English. Indeed, Daniel consciously chose to write these works in English—despite the challenges this presented—in order to \"increase access to this important knowledge\" (p. 4). The present edited volume now \"aims to extend Daniel's project\" (p. 4) by opening up his work to wider audiences, including historians of medieval medicine, religious communities, and the English language as well as scholars in adjacent and intersecting disciplines, such as philology and lexicology, literary studies, and manuscript studies. The assembled chapters do precisely that, not only contextualizing the development and legacy of the &lt;em&gt;Liber Uricrisiarum&lt;/em&gt; but also demonstrating its importance to multiple fields.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Star's opening introductory chapter sets out the surprising state of scholarship on Daniel and his works: although the &lt;em&gt;Liber Uricrisiarum&lt;/em&gt; was penned \"on the cusp of what would become a burgeoning vernacular movement\" (p. 3) and contributed to the development of Middle English medical writing, it has remained largely overlooked and understudied. This volume, a product of the Henry Daniel Project at the University of Toronto and a companion to the &lt;em&gt;Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition&lt;/em&gt;, represents an important step in introducing Daniel, his writings, and their long-term significance.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Following Star's introduction, the volume is divided into two parts: \"Contexts\" (Chapters 1–3) and \"Texts and Legacies\" (Chapters 4–7). Faith Wallis' chapter begins Part I, establishing the textual background to the &lt;em&gt;Liber Ur","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138744036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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"In All Circumstances": Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950 "在任何情况下":1900-1950 年爱尔兰的家庭分娩与合作保健
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a915268
Cara Delay
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Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo (review) 《拉奈拉夫人:罗伯特·博伊尔妹妹无与伦比的生活》,米歇尔·迪梅奥著(评论)
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905734
Linda Pollock
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The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics ed. by William H. Schneider (review) 《HIV的历史:导致艾滋病流行的多种病毒的出现》,威廉·H·施耐德主编(综述)
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905739
Johanna T. Crane
{"title":"The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics ed. by William H. Schneider (review)","authors":"Johanna T. Crane","doi":"10.1353/bhm.2023.a905739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2023.a905739","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the myriad indignities and frustrations of this topic, the book is decidedly optimistic about the present and future. For example, the past decade’s opioid epidemic forced public and private groups to rethink how drug addiction should be addressed (p. 4). Swelling public support for cannabis reform is another area where Farber believes the country is nearing an inflection point on its willingness to support the War on Drugs as faithfully as heretofore. One poll said that half of those surveyed said all drug offenses should be treated in civil, not criminal, court. Not unrelated to this changing public sentiment, erstwhile drug hawk Joe Biden on the 2000 campaign trail stated, “No one should be incarcerated for drug use [of any kind]” (pp. 1–2). At the same time, Farber is on solid ground when he adds that these same Americans are uneasy about what might replace the fifty-year war: primum non nocere. Despite these startling new developments toward overdue reassessment and reform, Farber and his colleagues do worry that while public support for the War on Drugs has dwindled, the “sunk costs” of this once-believed eternal war might be enough to keep it in business long past its shelf life. “People continue to worry about the financial and human cost of prisons larded with convicted non-violent drug offenders, but prison guard unions, police unions and fraternal organizations, private contractors, and other economic interests fight to keep the drug offender-to-prison pipeline flowing” (p. 2). Do not read this volume for balance, as the authors would likely agree that they are categorical critics of the War of Drugs. But they are reasonable and empirical critics, which very much bolsters their credibility.","PeriodicalId":55304,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine","volume":"97 1","pages":"360 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45705844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 by Jeannie N. Shinozuka (review) 《生物边界:跨太平洋植物和昆虫的迁徙和美国反亚洲种族主义的兴起,1890-1950》作者:珍妮·n·信冢
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a905736
Helen Anne Curry
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