Book ReviewK. E. Kurrer. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Germany, 2018, ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9, £120 (hardback), 1212 pp.

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

The Welfare of Performing Animals. A Historical Perspective. By David A. H. Wilson. Springer: Berlin, Germany, 2015; 278 pp; $189.00; ISBN 978-3-662-50931-9

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Sláinte James Morrow, The Book Guild Ltd., 2002. £15.95 hardback, 283 pp. ISBN: 1857766822

As a consultant neurologist and honorary clinical lecturer at a Belfast hospital, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, James Morrow is known to many in the fields of neurology and epileptology. In his spare time he has added to his repertoire an English Literature and Philosophy degree and now his first novel. Set in IRA-riddled Belfast, Sláinte (Irish for cheers—pronounced Slaunch-e)...

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Ishizuka Hisao, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 276, illus., $99,99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-349-93268-9.