Books Received

Adriana Alvarez, Irene Molinari, and Daniel Reynoso, eds. Historias de Enfermedades, Salud y Medicina en la Argentina de los siglos XIX–XX. Mar del Plata, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2004. 296 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 987-544-104-X).

Peter Baldwin. Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, no. 13. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005. xii + 465 pp. $44.95, £29.95 (0-520-24350-1).

Martin Brookes. Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. xviii + 298 pp. Ill. $24.95 (1-58234-481-7).

Stephanie P. Browner. Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 304 pp. Ill. $49.95, £32.50 (0-8122-3825-7).

Carol R. Byerly. Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xv + 251 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 0-8147-9923-X), $21.00 (paperbound, 0-8147-9924-8).

Donald Caton and Kathryn E. McGoldrick, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Vol. 8: A. A. Spence, Julien F. Biebuyck, Richard J. Kitz, and John W. Severinghaus. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library—Museum of Anesthesiology, 2004. xiii + 273 pp. Ill. $60.00 (1-889595-09-8).

William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, eds. Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xxxvii + 317 pp. Ill. $68.95 (cloth, 0-8166-4299-0), $22.95 (paperbound, 0-8166-4300-8).

Jan Gregoire Coombs. The Rise and Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xviii + 412 pp. $35.00 (0-299-20240-2).

Hunter Crowther-Heyck. Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xi + 420 pp. $49.95 (0-8018-8025-4).

Jeanne Daly. Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, no. 12. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005. xv + 275 pp. $65.00 (0-520-24316-1).

Alan Derickson. Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 240 pp. $30.00 (0-8018-8081-5).

Raymond De Vries. A Pleasing Birth: Midwives and Maternity Care in the Netherlands. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. xx + 275 pp. Ill. $74.50 (cloth, 1-59213-102-6), $24.95 (paperbound, 1-59213-103-4).

Nadia Durbach. Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Radical Perspectives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii + 277 pp. Ill. $22.95 (paperbound, 0-8223-3423-2).

Marcia Gaudet. Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. Foreword by James Carville. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. xv + 221 pp. Ill. $28.00 (1-57806-693-X).

Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn. The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 278 pp. Ill. $25.00 (0-521-84542-4).

Jharna Gourlay. Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 305 pp. Ill. $114.95, £60.00 (0-7546-3364-0).

Gerald N. Grob. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. Reprint. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 349 pp. $19.95 (paperbound, 0-674-01757-9).

Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind. Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs. Trans. by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 276 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-01702-1).

John Hoberman. Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 381 pp. $24.95, 15.95 (0-520-22151-6).

H. F. J. Horstmanshoff and M. Stol, eds., in collaboration with C. R. van Tilburg. Magic and...