Tariq A Baloch, UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND CONTRACT Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2009. xxiii + 208 pp. ISBN 9781841139081. £45.

Robert Allan. Virtual Research Environments: From Portals to Science Gateways. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2009. 266p. $85 (ISBN 9787843345626)

ethnic background. The use of classical (that is to say, Roman or Greek) or literary names for enslaved people was common and distinct from the traditional English or Biblical names of those of European descent. However, using names alone as an indicator of race was problematic. For example, a source lists Africa Hamlin of Pembroke, Massachusetts, as a possible African American soldier; later r...

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

Psychiatrist on the Road: Encounters in Healing and Healthcareby Climo Lawrence H. . Point Richmond, Calif. Bay Tree Publishing , 2009 , 208 pp., $18.00.

After 18 years as a senior clinical psychiatrist at a New England inner-city mental health clinic, Dr Lawrence Climo was understandably surprised and saddened when he was given 2 weeks’ notice that his services were no longer needed. Financial constraints meant the clinic was replacing him with a nurse. Although his wife told him it was an opportunity, he remembers thinking that health care ref...

Abby Clobridge. Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos Publishing, 2010. 272p. $100 (ISBN 9781843345961)

late 2010. The reader may also find that the final essay on organization development, Elaine Z. Jennerich and M. Sue Baughman’s “Creating Smooth Sailing,” although logically appropriate to include, does seem slightly out of place when considering the content of the other essays. Eric Bartheld’s “Listen Up Librarian,” on marketing and outreach, does spend time exploring the importance of an acad...

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.