Claire Clark, The Recovery Revolution: The Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), pp. 336, $35.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780231176385.

Perho, Irmeli. Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts: Codices Persici, Codices Eyseriani, Codex Persicus Add. Copenhagen: NIAS Press and Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 2017. Hardback, pp. 706. ISBN: 978-87-7694-216-8.

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...

The Case of Modern Memory *

* The books under review here include Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer, eds., Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999), pp. 288, $19.95 (paper); Pim den Boer, History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 496, $77.50; Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma: Exp...

Miami The Maya and Catholicism : An Encounter of Worldviews

The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews. By John D. Early. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 311. $59.95 cloth. Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost. By Jean Molesky-Poz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 201. $25.00 paper. Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca. By Kristin Norget. New York: Columbi...

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James Colgrove, State of immunity: the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America, Berkeley, University of California Press, and New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006, pp. xiii, 332, illus., £29.00, $39.95 (hardback 0-520-24749-3; 978-0-52024749-3). Gordon C Cook, The Incurables Movement: an illustrated history of The British Home, Oxford, Radcliffe Publishing, 2006, pp. vii, 219, ill...