Patz, Ronny and Goetz, Klaus H. (2019). Managing Money and Discord in the UN. Budgeting and Bureaucracy. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. Hardback, 272 Seiten, ISBN: 9780198838333.

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 304, £20.00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9780199599035.

Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix-227, $100, hardback, ISBN: 9780198739654.

the regional, national and international aspects of prostitution, Stauter-Halsted shows how the international trade in women, then as now, intersected concerns with health, family and personal safety, alongside poverty, unemployment as well as a hostile social environment and deplorable economic conditions at home. In this context, Stauter-Halsted also provides a much needed correction to the p...

American Psychiatry Scholarship: The Pendulum Maintains its Momentum

Hannah S. Decker, The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 443, £35.99, paperback, ISBN-10: 0195382234. Edward Shorter, How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 246, £19.99, hardback, ISBN-10: 0199948089. Deborah Weinstein, The Patholog...

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xii, 312, $105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967813-6.

This innovative and imaginatively researched study more than fulfils its ambition to explore the relationship between physicians and the lay public in early modern Italy. Taking a fresh perspective on medical history, the authors focus on the texts and practices devoted to staying healthy rather than coping with illness and demonstrate the growing appetite for such knowledge. Although they high...

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...