Books Received

Alberto Alonso Guardo. Los pronósticos médicos en la medicina medieval: el "Tractatus de Crisi et de Diebus Creticis" de Bernardo de Gordonio. Lingüística y Filología, no. 54. Valladolid, Spain: Universidad de Valladolid, 2003. 512 pp. $24.83, €19.50 (paperbound, 84-8448-233-2).

Elizabeth M. Armstrong. Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 277 pp. Ill. $42.95 (0-8018-7345-2).

Iain Bamforth, ed. The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine. London: Verso, 2003. xxx + 418 pp. $US 30.00; $Can. 45.00; £20.00 (1-85984-534-7).

Edward D. Berkowitz. Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xx + 455 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-299-18950-3).

Baruch S. Blumberg. Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. x + 244 pp. Ill. $17.95, £11.95 (paperbound, 0-691-11623-7).

George W. Bruyn and Charles M. Poser. The History of Tropical Neurology: Nutritional Disorders. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications/USA, 2003. xii + 144 pp. Ill. $24.95 (paperbound, 0-88135-281-0).

Michael Bulmer. Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvii + 357 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-8018-7403-3).

Anthony Cavender. Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xviii + 266 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 0-8078-2824-6), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5493-X).

Vincent J. Cirillo. Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003. xiv + 241 pp. Ill. $55.00 (0-8135-3339-2).

Rahul Peter Das. The Origin of the Life of a Human Being: Conception and the Female according to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature. Indian Medical Tradition, vol. 6. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003. xvi + 729 pp. $42.00 (81-208-1998-5).

Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. vii + 519 pp. Ill. $ 65.00 (cloth, 0-226-13680-9), $26.00 (paperbound, 0-226-13681-7).

Monika Dommann. Dursicht Einsicht Vorsicht: Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896-1963. Interferenzen, no. 5. Zurich: Chronos, 2003. 447 pp. Ill. €29.80 (paperbound, 3-0340-0587-3).

Pierre-Yves Donzé. Bâtir, gérer, soigner: Histoire des établissements hospitaliers de Suisse romande. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé. Geneva: Georg, 2003. xviii + 367 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 48.00 (paperbound, 2-8257-0829-1).

Kirsty Duncan. Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xvi + 297 pp. Ill. $35.00, £22.50 (0-8020-8748-5).

Joel Peter Eigen. Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 223 pp. $39.95 (0-8018-7428-9).

John Farley. To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 323 pp. Ill. (0-19-516631-0).

Sabine Frühstück. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. Colonialisms, no. 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. x + 267 pp. Ill. $50.00, £32.95 (cloth, 0-520-23547-9); $19.95, £12.95 (paperbound, 0-520-23548-7).

Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks, eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. vii + 217 pp. $42.00 (0-8018-7342-8).

Antonio Grieco, Daniela Fano, Tim Carter, and Sergio Iavicoli, eds. Origins of Occupational Health Associations in the World. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003. x + 291 pp. Ill. $100.00; €100.00 (0-444-51301-9).

David Hamilton. The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland. Reprint. Edinburgh: Mercat...