Isa Blumi, Reinstating the Ottomans, Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2011, 250 pp.

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.

Stuart Justman, The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 272, hardback, $79.99, ISBN: 987-1-137-52328-0.

donor of the organ more and more substituted in several contexts the recipient as the figure of reference. And a fundamental uneasiness facing modern medicine manifested itself behind the interests of self-determination. However, the history of organ transplantation is not a history of increasing biopower in Hofmann’s view. Since the 1980s it has been formed by a liberal form of power that saw ...

Cathy Hannabach, Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. viii, 153, $67.50, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-58158-7.

on this tradition to outline the way in which two sensory messages arriving simultaneously – for example through the eye and the ear – laid down associations that were then reexcited whenever just one of the elements reappeared. To use his favourite example, the sight and sound of a bleating lamb laid down association fibres connecting the visual image of a woolly quadruped with the auditory st...

Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety, By David Walters and Theo Nichols, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 177 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-00194-7

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

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...