Books Received

Brian Alexander. Rapture: A Raucous Tour of Cloning, Transhumanism, and the New Era of Immortality. New York: Basic Books, 2003. ix + 289 pp. $US 15.00, $Can. 20.95 (paperbound, 0-7382-0761-6).

Joseph Lluís Barona Vilar. Salud, tecnología y saber médico. Madrid: Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces, 2004. 267 pp. €14.00 (paperbound, 84-8004-665-1).

Jan Bondeson. The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels. Reprint. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xxii + 296 pp. Ill. $18.95 (paperbound, 0-8014-8958-X).

Susan Broomhall. Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France. Gender in History. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. viii + 288 pp. $64.95, £49.99 (0-7190-6286-1).

Deborah Brunton, ed. Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800–1930: A Source Book. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xvii + 310 pp. $74.95, £49.99 (cloth, 0-7190-6738-3); $24.95, £15.99 (paperbound, 0-7190-6739-1).

Deborah Brunton, ed. Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800–1930. Manchester, U.K.: The Open University, 2004. xviii + 414 pp. Ill. $29.95, £15.99 (paperbound, 0-7190-6735-9).

Christopher M. Callahan and German E. Berrios. Reinventing Depression: A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940–2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii + 214 pp. $49.95 (0-19-516523-3).

Stéphane Castonguay and Camille Limoges. François Blanchet. Vol. 1, L'étudiant et le savant. Études québécoises. Montreal: VLB Éditeur, 2004. 397 pp. $Can. 29.95 (paperbound, 2-89005-884-0).

Marcos Cueto. El valor de la salud: Historia de la Organización Panamerica de la Salud. Publicación Científica y Técnica, no. 600. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization, 2004. viii + 211 pp. Ill. $26.00 in U.S.; $20.00 in Latin America and the Caribbean (92-75-31600-7).

Thomas M. Daniel. Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880–1938: Up to the Mountain. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2004. xx + 238 pp. Ill. $45.00 (1-58046-177-8).

Axel Dost, Gudrun Färber-Töller, and Heinz Rodegra, eds. Hospital—Kunst—Medizin: Festschrift für Axel Hinrich Murken. Historia Hospitalium, no. 23. Aachen, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhausgeschichte, 2004. 447 pp. Ill. €32.00 (3-935791-06-2).

Hormoz Ebrahimnejad. Medicine, Public Health and the Qājār State: Patterns of Medical Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Iran. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 4. Leiden: Brill, 2004. xiv + 266 pp. Ill. $99.00; €73.00 (90-04-139117).

Tony Farmar. Patients, Potions, and Physicians: A Social History of Medicine in Ireland, 1654–2004. Dublin: A. & A. Farmar, in association with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. 2004. x + 254 pp. Ill. €30.00 (1-899047-99-9).

Robert William Fogel. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America and the Third World. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time, no. 38. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 191 pp. Ill. $70.00 (cloth, 0-521-80878-2), $23.99 (paperbound, 0-521-00488-8).

Zachary Friedenberg. Hospital at War: The 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II. Texas A & M University Military History Series, no. 96. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2004. x + 158 pp. Ill. $32.50 (1-58544-379-4).

Richard L. Golden. A History of William Osler's "The Principles and Practice of Medicine." Osler Library Studies in the History of Medicine, no. 8. Montreal: Osler Library, McGill University; and the American Osler Society, 2004. xiii + 267 pp. Ill. $25.00 (paperbound, 07717-0615-4).

Sydney A. Halpern. Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research. Morality and Society Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 232 pp. Tables. $37.50, £26...