Books Received

David Bainbridge. Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. 292 pp., illus. $26.

Peter Biller. The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. xxi, 476 pp., illus. $55.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson. No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv, 293 pp., illus. $45.

Elof Axel Carlson. The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001. xiv, 451 pp., illus. $39.

Marcos Cueto. The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing, 2001. x, 176 pp. $79.95.

Roger Davidson and Lesley A. Hall, eds. Sex, Sin, and Suffering: Venereal Disease and Euorpean Society since 1870. New York, Routledge, 2001. xi, 259 pp. $85.

Allen G. Debus. Chemistry and Medical Debate; van Helmont to Boerhaave. Nantucket, Massachusetts, Science History Publications, 2001. 296 pp., illus. $52.

Peter C. English. Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History. East Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1999. xx, 257 pp., illus. $65.

Peter C. English. Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980. East Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2001. xv, 254 pp., illus. $69.

Jean Fernel. La Physiologie. Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2001. 664 pp. [no price given]

Frank R. Freemon. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2001. 254 pp., illus. $24.95 (paper).

Luis Garcia-Ballester. Medicine in a Multicultural Society: Christian, Jewish and Muslim Practitioners in the Spanish Kingdoms, 1222–1610. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing, 2001. $117.95.

Anthony Grafton. Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. xii, 284 pp., illus. $26.

Daniel S. Greenberg. Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 530 pp., $35.

Margaret Humphreys. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xi, 196 pp., illus. $41.50.

Kirk Jeffrey. Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defribillator, and American Health Care. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii, 370 pp., illus. $16.95 (paper).

Ilana Löwy and John Krige, eds. Images of Disease: Science, Public Policy and Health in Post-War Europe. Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001. 382 pp., illus. 18.50 EUR.

Maureen K. Lux. Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880–1940. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii, 300 pp., illus. $50 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World. New York, McGraw Hill, 2001. xi, 243 pp. $24.95.

Martin V. Melosi. Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. xiii, 325 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner, eds. Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870–1930. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv, 316 pp. $59.95.

Joseph E. Murray. Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career. Nantucket, Massachusetts, Science History Publications, 2001. xiv, 257 pp., illus. $35.

Judith Robinson. Noble Conspirator: Florence S. Mahoney and the Rise of the National Institute of Health. Washington, D.C., The Francis Press, 2001. xiv, 342 pp., illus. $28.

Kai Sammet. Ueber Irrenanstalten und deren Weiterentwicklung in Deutschland: Wilhelm Griesinger im Streit mit der konservativen Anstaltpsychiatrie 1865–1868. Hamburg, Lit Verlag, 2000. viii, 303 pp. 49.90 DM (paper).

Vilma Santiage-Irizarry. Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2001. xi, 178 pp. $16.95 (paper).

Jean Stengers and Anne van Neck. Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror. Translated by Kathryn...