Hutter, Horst, and Eli Friedland (eds.), Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching for Individuals and Culture (New York: NY: Bloomsbury, 2013), 264 pp., $ 130, 978-1-4411-2533-0.

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.

Mismatches in evolution The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease, Daniel E. Lieberman (Pantheon Books, New York, NY; 2013) ISBN: 978-0-307-37941-2.

where Ardipithecus, etc. probably fed largely on abundant fruit, declined in a climate better suited to open woodland and savannah. For hominins to flourish, they needed to widen their diet, and travel further to find food. The australopiths (which succeeded Ardipithecus, etc.) had larger teeth that seem suitable for chewing tougher food such as roots, and skeletons that seem capable of more ef...

Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds), Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 222, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-49091-9.

that the costs of post-eradication surveillance could dwarf initial expenditures.) If 25% of childhood mortality were attributable to malaria, reasons for caution in intervention dissipate. The concern about harm that might be done to adults whose acquired immunity could be compromised was hardly considered. Malariologists might elect utilitarianism as their chosen professional ethics, their br...

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.

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 ...