Changes in Japanese Employment Practices: Beyond the Japanese Model, By Arjan Keizer, London and New York: Routledge, xii + 204 pp., ISBN 978-0-45-44-758-4.

Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body (New York, NY, and London: Routledge, 2016), pp. xii + 168, £90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-13-882391-4.

Cavallo and Storey subject much received wisdom to scrutiny. They argue persuasively, for example, that early modern doctors and lay people were less obsessed with putrid air as a cause of disease than with the effects of the coldness and dampness of air. (Thus, the taste spread for canopies of thick curtains around the bed to protect the vulnerable brain.) The authors also revisit the accepted...

Critical Readings in Translation Studies, Edited by M. Baker (2010), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-46955-5

George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (New York and London: Norton, 2015), pp. xvi, 656, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-393-05965-6.

public financial resources to the latter areas and away from family planning services with uneven success. The author successfully navigates these overlapping layers of social, political and economic interest, and interprets the Peruvian experience in its particularities but also within patterns that emerged in Latin American–U.S. relations. In all of this and from multiple directions, A Histor...

Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. I-XII, 1-466, ISBN: 978-0-231-14766-8.

confidentiality oblige, when it concerns – as is often the case – genital or urinary disease. Coste successfully underlines that the writing of consilia can be linked with a poetic or literary approach: the medical expert writes the private history of a patient, as a worthy heir to Hippocrates; he selects words and suitable expressions according to the recipient (an esteemed fellow-member will ...

One Company, Diverse Workplaces. The Social Construction of Employment Practices in Western and Eastern Europe, By Marta Kahancová, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 263 pp., ISBN: 978-0-230-57977-4

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