Books Received

Books Received

Karel B. Absolon, comp. Elihu Yale Library Gift of Books. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2006. N.p. Ill. No price given (1-57529-103-7).

Anna Akasoy and Stefan Georges, eds. Muhammad ibn 'Abdallāh al-Bāzyār: Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil. Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9. Jahrhundert. Wissenkultur und Gesellschaftlicher Wandel, no. 11. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005. 198 pp. €69.80 (3-05-004199-4).

Linda C. Andrist, Patrice K. Nicholas, and Karen A. Wolf. A History of Nursing Ideas. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett, 2006. xxiii + 504 pp. $64.95 (paperbound, 0-7637-2289-8).

Jesse F. Ballenger. Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvii + 236 pp. $43.00 (0-8018-8276-1).

Josep L. Barona and Steven Cherry, eds. Health and Medicine in Rural Europe (1850–1945). Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, no. 11. Sueca, Valencia, Spain: Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, 2005. 372 pp. €18.00 (paperbound, 84-370-6334-5).

Kelly Barth, ed. Human Medical Trials. Opposing Viewpoints: At Issue in History series. Detroit, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2005. 143 pp. $29.95 (0-7377-2669-5).

Robert Beasecker, ed. "I Hope to Do My Country Service": The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry. Great Lakes Books. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxv + 409 pp. Ill. $54.95 (9-780814-331705).

Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee, et al. Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900. The MIT Press Eurasian Population and Family History Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xv + 531 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-262-02551-5).

Pradip Kumar Bose, ed. Health and Society in Bengal: A Selection from Late 19th-Century Bengali Periodicals. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. 293 pp. $16.00 (0-7619-3418-9).

Julia Boyd. The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician. Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 2005. xix + 314 pp. Ill. £20.00 (0-7509-4140-5).

Michael S. Bryant. Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945–1953. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xi + 269 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-87081-809-0).

Citta' di Marostica, Assessorato alla Cultura. Prospero Alpini: Medico e Viaggiatore, 1153–1616, nel 450° della nascita. Acts of a conference, Marostica, 23 November 2003. Marostica, Italy: Citta' di Marostica, 2005. 128 pp. Ill. €10.00 (paperbound, 88-9017780-1-9).

Patricia D'Antonio. Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 2006. 253 pp. Ill. $46.50 (0-934223-82-3).

Johan de Niet. Ziekentroosters op de pastorale markt, 1550–1880. Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2006. 291 pp. €27.50 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-5235-184-8; ISBN-13: 78-90-5235-184-8).

Donald A. Dewsbury. Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930–1965. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 347 pp. Ill. $55.00 (0-8387-5593-3).

Jonathan Engel. Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 318 pp. $79.95 (cloth, 0-8223-3683-9), $22.95 (paperbound, 0-8223-3695-2).

Martha J. Farah and Todd E. Feinberg, eds. Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience. 2d ed. Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neurospsychology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 494 pp. Ill. $55.00 (paperbound, 0-262-56213-8).

Stanley Finger. Doctor Franklin's Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xiii + 379 pp. Ill. $39.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8122-3913-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3913-3).

David Boyd Hancock and Patrick Wallis, eds. Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy. Medical History, Suppl. no. 25. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005. viii + 216 pp. Ill. $64...