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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78.4 (2004) 930-931



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David L. Cowen. Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 2001. ix + 296 pp. Ill. $105.95 (0-86078-842-3).

"Medical discoveries, medical theories, and medical systems most certainly have their place in medical history," writes David Cowen in the preface to this collection, "but these studies make it evident that the materia medica and pharmacotherapy were what the practice of medicine was all about" (p. vii). The collection includes the following publications: "The Edinburgh Pharmacopeia" (reprinted from Med. Hist., 1957); "The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia," (reprinted from The Early Years of the Edinburgh Medical School, ed. R. G. W. Anderson and A. D. C. Simpson, 1976); "Expunctum est Mithridatium" (reprinted from Pharmaceut. Historian, 1985); "The Edinburgh Dispensatories" (reprinted from Pap. Amer. Bibliog. Soc., 1951); "The Influence of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia and the Edinburgh Dispensatories" (reprinted from Pharmaceut. Historian, 1982); "A Note on Pharmaceutical Literature and the Introduction of the New Chemical Nomenclature" (reprinted from Beiträge zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, 1981); "The Spread and Influence of British Pharmacopoeial and Related Literature" (reprinted from Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie, 1974); "America's Pre-Pharmacopoeial Literature" (reprinted from Amer. Inst. Hist. Pharm., 1961); "The Boston Editions of Nicholas Culpeper" (reprinted from J. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci., 1956); "'Zum Dienst des gemeinen Mannes, insonderheit für die Landleute': The Domestic and Veterinary Medicine Books Printed in Colonial North America and the United States in the German Language" (from Orbis Pictus: Kultur- und pharmaziehistorische Studien, 1985); "Deigendesch's Nachrichters Rossartznebüchlein" (reprinted from J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc., 1981); "The Folk Medicine of the Pennsylvania Dutch" (reprinted from Folk Lore and Folk Medicine, ed. John Scarborough, 1987); and "The New York Hospital and Its Pharmacopoeia" (reprinted from New York State J. Med., 1973).

Christine Hillam, ed. Dental Practice in Europe at the End of the Eighteenth Century. ClioMedica, vol. 72. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2003. 518 pp. Ill. $150.00, €135.00 (cloth, 90-420-1268-4); $61.00, €55.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1258-7).

This collection of essays emerged from conferences held in Germany, England, and Paris from 1992 to 1993. Contributors and their subjects or essay titles are as follows: Pierre Baron, dental practitioners in France; Anne Hargreaves, "Dentistry in the British Isles"; Frank Huisman, "Itinerant Dentists and Patent Remedies [End Page 930] in the Dutch Republic"; Judit Fornai, dental practice in Hungary; Thomas Nickol and Curt Gerhard Lorber, "Germany between 1780 and 1810"; Thomas Nickol, "German Dental Literature around 1800" and "The Availability of Dental Care in Halle: A Local Study"; and Peter Schröck-Schmidt and Curt Gerhard Lorber, biographical sketches of German dental practitioners. Six appendices contain detailed information about individuals offering dental treatment in France, Britain, and Germany, along with French sources of information and an alphabetic list of German dental literature published between 1775 and 1820.

Jennifer K. Walter and Eran P. Klein, eds. The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explorations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. xv + 248 pp. $29.95, £21.50 (paperbound, 0-87840-138-5).

Recent interest in bioethics as a field has come from two directions, write the editors in their preface: a historical interest in its origins, and an interest in its purpose and potential. The essays in this book, which the editors identify as seminal, "are premised on the notion that these two threads are interwoven . . . ." (p. ix).

Part 1, "Theories in Bioethics," comprises "From Medical Ethics to a Moral Philosophy of the Professions," by Edmund D. Pellegrino; "The Origins, Goals, and Core Commitments of The Belmont Report and Principles of Biomedical Ethics," by Tom L. Beauchamp; "Principles of Biomedical Ethics: Reflections on a Work in Progress," by James F. Childress; "Revisiting A Theory of Medical Ethics: Main Themes and Anticipated Changes," by Robert M. Veatch; and "The Foundations of Bioethics: Rethinking the...

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