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The fabric of the human body :\u00a0an annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions <\/em><\/a>\/ Andreas Vesalius; translated by Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast. Basel :\u00a0Karger,\u00a02014.<\/p>\n The year 2013 marks 500 years since the birth of Andreas Vesalius, the iconic Renaissance anatomist, whose De humani corporis fabrica<\/em> is a monument in the history of medicine. This is a new translation of the book’s two editions and features essays by well-known historians of medicine Vivian Nutton and Nancy Siraisi.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Child workers and industrial health in Britain, 1780-1850 <\/a>\/<\/em>\u00a0Peter Kirby.\u00a0Woodbridge, Suffolk :\u00a0The Boydell Press,\u00a02013.<\/p>\n What were the health effects on children of working in the textiles and mining industries as laborers during the Victorian period?<\/p>\n From the publisher’s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n In this comprehensive study, Peter Kirby places the occupational health of employed children within a broad context of social, industrial and environmental change during the period 1780 to 1850. The book explores the deformities, fevers, respiratory complaints, industrial injuries and physical ill-treatment which have long been associated with child labour in the factory workplace. The result is a more nuanced picture of child health and child labour during the classic ‘factory age’ which raises important questions about the enduring stereotype of the health-impaired and abused industrial child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Exp\u00e9riences de la folie :\u00a0criminels, soldats, patients en psychiatrie (XIXe-XXe si\u00e8cle<\/a><\/em>) \/\u00a0sous la direction de Laurence Guignard, Herv\u00e9 Guillemain, St\u00e9phane Tison. Rennes :\u00a0Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2009Sur 3\u00a0832 soldats soign\u00e9s dans le service des psychoses du camp retranch\u00e9 de Paris au cours de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1916, \u2028653 sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme des \u00ab\u2009alcooliques avanc\u00e9s\u2009\u00bb<\/a>\u2009\u2009\u201d. The authors of this collection look at patient experiences of psychiatric illness during the 19th and 20th centuries in connection with the judicial, military, and hospital systems that were defining what it meant to be “mentally ill.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Toxicants, health and regulation since 1945<\/a> \/\u00a0edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas.\u00a0London :\u00a0Pickering & Chatto,\u00a02013.<\/p>\n The authors in this volume document the rise of environmental pollutants in the second half of the 20th century and regulatory efforts around the world to curtail them and manage risk. Find a review<\/a> of this book in Social History of Medicine [McGill users only].<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Too cold to head to the library? Have a look at what’s available on the history of medicine in Overdrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Settling in for a long winter’s nap? Not before some bedtime reading! Have a look at some of these, new in November. The fabric of the human body :\u00a0an annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions \/ Andreas … Continue reading