Books Received

Darrel W. Amundsen. Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xv + 391 pp. $39.95.

Michael Barfoot, ed. and intro. “To ask the Suffrages of the Patrons”: Thomas Laycock and the Edinburgh Chair of Medicine, 1855. Medical History, Suppl. no. 15, 1995. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1995. xv + 226 pp. Ill. $38.00 (U.S.); £25.00 (worldwide).

Don Bates, ed. Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiii + 369 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paperbound).

Anne E. Becker. Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji. New Cultural Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995. xvi + 206 pp. Ill. $34.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paperbound).

Marco Beretta. The Starry Messenger and the Polar Star: Scientific Relations between Italy and Sweden from 1500 to 1800: Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. Uppsala Studies in History of Science, no. 22. Prato, Italy: Giunti, 1995. 188 pp. Ill. No price given.

German Berrios and Roy Porter, eds. A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. New York: New York University Press, 1995. xx + 684 pp. $65.00.

Johanna Bleker, Eva Brinkschulte, and Pascal Grosse, eds. Kranke und Krankheiten im Juliusspital zu Würzburg, 1819–1829: Zur frühen Geschichte des Allgemeinen Krankenhaus in Deutschland. Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 72. Husum, Germany: Matthiesen Verlag, 1995. 223 + lxv pp. Tables, graphs. DM 89.00 (paperbound).

Lawrence J. Bliquez. Roman Surgical Instruments and Other Minor Objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the “Antiquarium” at Pompeii, by Ralph Jackson. Mainz, Germany: von Zabern, 1994. xvi + 238 pp. Ill. DM 135.00.

Thomas Neville Bonner. Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii + 412 pp. $35.00.

James J. Bono. The Word of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine. Vol. 1, Ficino to Descartes. Science and Literature, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi + 317 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paperbound).

Charlotte G. Borst. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xi + 254 pp. Ill. $39.95.

William R. Clark. At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xi + 276 pp. Ill. $25.00.

Lawrence D. Collins. The 56th Evac Hospital: Letters of a WWII Army Doctor. War and the Southwest Series, no. 4. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. xx + 284 pp. Ill. $29.95.

Marcos Cueto, ed. Saberes andinos: Ciencia y tecnología en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1995. 213 pp. Tables, graphs. No price given (paperbound).

John H. Cule and John M. Lancaster, eds. Russia and Wales: Essays on the History of State Involvement in Health Care. Cardiff: History of Medicine Society of Wales, 1994. 118 pp. £10.00 + postage (Great Britain, £1.00; elsewhere, £2.00) (paperbound). (Available from The Librarian, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF4 4XN, Wales, Great Britain.)

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. The Foundations of Bioethics. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii + 446 pp. $39.95.

Georgina D. Feldberg. Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society. Health and Medicine in American Society. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xiii + 274 pp. Ill. $52.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paperbound).

José Luis Fresquet Febrer, ed. Salud, Enfermedad y Terapéutica Popular en la Ribera Alta. Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, no. 47, ser. A (Monografías). Valencia, Spain: Universidad de València-C.S.I.C., 1995. 322 pp. Ptas. 2,120.00 (paperbound).

Werner E. Gerabek. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling und die Medizin der Romantik: Studien zu Schellings Würzburger Periode. Europäische Hochschulschriften, ser. 7, sect. B, vol. 7. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, 1995. 535 pp. DM 82.95 (paperbound).

Mary C. Gillett. The Army Medical Department, 1865–1917...