How was your March? In like a lion, out like a lamb? Too long ago to remember? Lots of new circulating titles came roaring in this month! Here\u2019s a small sampling:<\/p>\n
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Regimental Practice by John Buchanan, M.D. : an eighteenth-century medical diary and manual<\/em>,<\/a> by John Buchanan. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012.<\/p>\n John Buchanan drew on his experience as a medical officer in the British army to produce his \u201cRegimental Practice,\u201c a treatise on military medicine. This is a new edition of this 18th century primary resource.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n L\u2019ergoth\u00e9rapie au Qu\u00e9bec : histoire d\u2019une profession<\/a><\/em> by Francine Ferland and Elisabeth Dutil. [Montr\u00e9al] : Presses de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, 2012. Il raconte aussi comment cette profession, pratiqu\u00e9e surtout par des femmes, a connu un essor majeur, comment elle est devenue une profession \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re au Qu\u00e9bec et a acquis ses lettres de noblesse. (Alain Bibeau)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n L\u2019uroscopie au Moyen \u00c2ge : “lire dans un verre la nature de l\u2019homme,”<\/a><\/em> by Laurence Moulinier-Brogi,\u00a0 Paris : Champion, 2012.<\/p>\n Reviewed in the Cahier des recherches medievales et humanistes\/Journal of Medieval and Humanities Studies<\/a><\/em> (Aug. 2012) [open access]. You can also hear an interview<\/a> with the author with medieval medical historian Danielle Jacquart hosted by famous medievalist Jacques Le Goff on French radio station FranceCulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reproducing women : family and health work across three generations<\/a> by Marilyn Porter. Halifax: Fernwood, 2012.<\/p>\n A work in the field of sociology of medicine that examines aspects of how woman understand and experience their reproductive health is understood and experienced within family contexts.\u00a0 Features interviews and stories from Canadian women. From Fernwood Publishing<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2026this book examines women\u2019s experience of their \u201creproductive lives\u201d in order to uncover how women\u2019s experience is rooted in the family and among generational relationships: between mother, daughter, grandmother and granddaughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Atlas of epidemic Britain : a twentieth century picture<\/a> by Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n A history of infectious disease in Britain over the 20th century, with historical information presented through more than 350 maps, charts, and photographs. Benedict W. Wheeler reviews this work in the journal Critical Public Health, v. 23, no. 1 (2013):121-122<\/a>. [McGill users].<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why millions died : before the war on infectious diseases<\/a> by George H. Scherr. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012.<\/p>\n Scherr examines historical theories of disease causation and why germ theory took so long to be discovered and accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How was your March? In like a lion, out like a lamb? Too long ago to remember? Lots of new circulating titles came roaring in this month! Here\u2019s a small sampling: Regimental Practice by John Buchanan, M.D. : an … Continue reading
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