BAR April 2021
Monka Ankele and Benoît Majerus (eds), Material Cultures of Psychiatry (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020), pp. 416, open access, ebook, ISBN: 9783839447888.
Rebecca Ayako Bennette, Diagnosing Dissent. Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020), pp. 240, $19.99, ebook, ISBN: 9781501751219.
Joanna Bourke, Loving Animals. On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love (London: Reaktion Books, 2020), pp. 192, £18, hardback, ISBN: 9781789143102.
Philip Conford, Realising Health. The Peckham Experiment, its Descendants and the Spirit of Hygiea (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), pp. 605, £49.99, hardback, ISBN: 9781527557505.
Juliana Dresvina and Victoria Blud, Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies. An Introduction (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020), pp. 251, £70, ebook, ISBN: 9781786836755.
Robin Lane Fox, The Invention of Medicine. From Homer to Hippocrates (New York: Basic Books, 2020), pp. 432, $18.99, ebook, ISBN: 9780465093458.
David A. Guber, Jr, Taming Cannabis. Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), pp. 384, £27.50, paperback, ISBN: 9780228001201.
Jessie Hewitt, Institutionalizing Gender. Madness, Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2020), pp. 238, open access, ebook, ISBN: 9781501753435.
Larry Sommer McGrath, Making Spirit Matter. Neurology, Psychology and Selfhood in Modern France (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), pp. 280, $35.00, paperback, ISBN: 9780226699820.
George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality. Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe. With a Critical Introduction by Mary Louise Roberts (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), pp. 280, $21.95, paperback, ISBN: 9780299329648.
Eugene T. Richardson, Epidemic Illusions. On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), pp. 232, $18.99, ebook, ISBN 9780262362634.
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness. Deafness Cures in History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), pp. 328, $27.50, hardback, ISBN: 9780226690612.
James B. Waldram, An Imperative to Cure. Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2020), pp. 272, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780826361738.