Books Received

Claudia Agostoni. Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876–1910. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, University of Calgary Press, 2003. xvii, 228 pp., illus. (No price given).

Joseph S. Alter, ed. Asian Medicine and Globalization. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 187 pp. $45.

Peter Baldwin. Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. xii, 465 pp. $44.95.

Ethne Barnes. Diseases and Human Evolution. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xii, 484 pp. $29.95.

Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus. Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. viii, 529 pp., illus. $25 (paper).

E. E. Cockayne and N. J. Stow, eds. Stutter's Casebook: A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839–1841. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., Boydell Press, 2005. xliii, 178 pp., illus. $60.

Christopher Crenner. Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xv, 303 pp., illus. $48.

Robert Darby. A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi, 374 pp. $35.

Pedanius Dioscorides. De Materia Medica. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien Band 38. Trans. Lily Y. Beck. Hildesheim, Germany, Georg Olms Press, 2005. xxviii, 540 pp. Ä78 (paper).

Jacalyn Duffin. Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2005. xvi, 229 pp., illus. $55 (cloth), $27.50 (paper).

Robert Fortune. "Must We All Die?": Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis. Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, 2005. xxxix, 264 pp., illus. $39.95.

Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Bernd Roeck, eds. Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe. History of Medicine in Context. Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 2005. vi, 326 pp., illus. $94.95.

John Henderson. A Life of Ernest Starling. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 227 pp., illus. (No price given).

Margaret Humphreys. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xi, 196 pp., illus. (No price given).

A. Labarta, J. Martínez Gázquez, M. R. McVaugh, D. Jacquart, and L. Cifuentes, eds. Translatio Libri Albuzale de Midicinis Simplicibus. Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia, vol. 17. Barcelona, Spain, Fundació Noguera, 2004. 625 pp. Ä55 (paper).

Philippa Lang, ed. Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science. Kelowna, B.C., Canada, Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005. vi, 135 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Bernard Lo. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians, 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005. x, 309 pp. (No price given).

Jonathan M. Metzl and Suzanne Poirier, eds. Difference and Identity: A Special Issue of Literature and Medicine. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii, 207 pp., illus. $19.95 (paper).

George W. Paulson. An Extraordinary Surgeon: James Fairchild Baldwin, M.D., 1850–1936. Columbus, Ohio State University Medical Center, 2005. 109 pp., illus. (No price given).

Pierre-François Olive Rayer. The History of Albuminous Nephritis. Medical History, Supplement no. 24. London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2005. viii, 114 pp., illus. $50.

Sal Restivo, ed. Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiv, 701 pp., illus. $150.

Jay Schulkin. Curt Richter: A Life in the Laboratory. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvi, 187 pp., illus. $49.95.

Andrew Scull. Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. xiii, 360 pp., illus. $30.

Jole Shackelford. A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus, 1540–1602. Copenhagen, Denmark, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. 519 pp., illus. (No price given).

Edward Shorter. A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. ix, 338 pp. (No price given).

David F. Smith, H. Lesley Diack, T. Hugh Pennington, and Elizabeth M. Russell. Food...