Books Received

Diego Armus. La ciudad impura: Salud, tuberculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870–1950. Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2007. 413 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-987-628-002-0).

Reid Barbour and Claire Preston, eds. Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 368 pp. Ill. $120.00 (978-0-19-923621-3).

Georges Canguilhem. Knowledge of Life. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xx + 202 pp. $75.00 (cloth, 978-0-8232-2925-3), $24.00 (paperbound, 978-0-8232-2926-0).

Brian L. D. Coghlan and Leon P. Bignold. Virchow’s Eulogies: Rudolf Virchow in Tribute to his Fellow Scientists. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 2008. xii + 318 pp. Ill. $149.00 (978-3-7643-8879-9).

Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, and Anne Hardy, eds. History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates. New Perspectives in South Asian History 22. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2009. xvi + 364 pp. Ill. $16.50 (978-81-250-3508-4).

Susan Cooper and Cary I. Cartwright, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xi + 602 pp. Ill. $150.00 (978-0-19-921191-3).

Christopher E. Cosans. Owen’s Ape & Darwin’s Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xxi + 166 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 978-0-253-35272-9), $21.95 (paperbound, 978-0-253-22051-6).

Gayle Davis. “The Cruel Madness of Love”: Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880–1930. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 285 pp. Ill. $84.00 (978-90-420-2463-2).

Leah DeVun. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiii + 255 pp. Ill. $50.00, £29.50 (978-0-231-14538-1).

Anne Digby and Howard Phillips. At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital, 1938–2008. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2008. xxx + 398 pp. Ill. (978-1-77009-642-4).

Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos. The Power of the Centre: Central Governments and the Macro-Implementation of EU Public Policy. European Policy Research Unit Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. x + 179 pp. $60.00 (978-0-7190-6200-1).

Gregory Michael Dorr. Segregation’s Science: Eugenics & Society in Virginia. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xi + 297 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8139-2755-8).

Karen E. Flint. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv + 274 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 978-0-8214-1849-9), $26.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8214-1850-5).

Arnd Friedrich, Irmtraut Sahmland, and Christina Vanja, eds. An der Wende zur Moderne: Die hessischen Hohen Hospitäler im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Historische Schriftenreihe des Landeswohlfahrtsverbandes Hessen Quellen und Studien Band 14. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2008. 424 pp. Ill. (978-3-86568-427-1).

Mark Harrison. Medicine & Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii + 320 pp. Ill. $115.00 (cloth, 978-0-19-926859-7), $50.00 (paperbound, 978-0-19-954121-8).

Helen King and Véronique Dasen. La médecine dans L’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Lausanne: Les Editions BHMS, 2008. xi + 129 pp. Ill. €18.66 (978-2-9700536-6-8).

Stephen A. Kowalewski, et al. Origins of the Nuu: Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xxv + 516 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-87081-929-2).

Angela Ki Che Leung. Leprosy in China: A History. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 373 pp. Ill. $50.00, £35.50 (978-0-231-12300-6).

Martin Krieger. Arme und Ärzte, Kranke und Kassen: Ländliche Gesundheitsversorgung und kranke Arme in der südlichen Rheinprovinz (1869 bis 1930). Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 452 pp. Ill. €64.00 (978-3-515-09171-8).

Paul Lucier. Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. Johns Hopkins Studies...