Books Received*

• Books Received*

Joseph N. Abraham. Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation. Hidden Hills Press, 2020. xxiv + 308 pp. Ill. n.p. (978-0-578-68059-0). Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen, eds. Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023. x + 370 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-1-7936-5122-8). Marie Baudoin. The Art of Childbirth. 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. Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 448 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-1-512823271). Katherine Fierlbeck and Gregory P. Marchildon. The Boundaries of Medicare: Public Health Care Beyond the Canada Health Act. 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. Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 406 pp. Ill. $37.99 (978-0-19-061275-7). Gregory Hanlon. Death Control in the West, 1500–1800: Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England. London: Routledge, 2023. xx + 308 pp. Ill. $39.16 (978-1-03-226758-6). Lisa Haushofer. Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition. 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. The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany. Social Histories of Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xiv + 274 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-1-5261-6065-2). Klaus Hoeyer. Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare. Infrastructures Series. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023. 314 pp Ill. $50.00 (978-0-262-54541-9).

*The Bulletin 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. [End Page 527]

Allan V. Horwitz. Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. xii + 228 pp. $35.00 (978-1-4214-4610-3). Guian A. McKee. Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. 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. A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities and Health Care Activism in New Orleans. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiv + 271 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4696-7392-9). Alex Mold, Peder Clark, and Hannah J. Elizabeth, eds. Publics and Their Health: Historical Problems and Perspectives. Social Histories of Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. x + 206 pp. $140.00 (978-1-5261-5675-4). Sarah Mellors Rodriguez. Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021. Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $110.00 (978-1-316-51531-0). Elaine Schattner. From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xiv + 362 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-231-19226-2). Leslie A. Schwalm. Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xvi + 218 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-1-4696-7269-4). Matthew Smith. The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xii + 410 pp. Ill. $30.00 (978-0-231-20393-7). Katherine Sorrels, Vanessa Carbonell, Danielle Bessett, Lora Arduser, Edward V. Wallace, and Michelle L. McGowan, Eds. Ohio Under COVID: Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. xii + 328 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-472...