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  • Books Received *
Annmarie Adams. Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900. McGill-Queen’s/Hannah Institute Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. xii + 227 pp. Ill. $39.95.
A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946–1996. Bethesda, Md.: Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, 1996. xiii + 340 pp. Ill. No charge (paperbound). (Available from: Dr. Samuel H. Joseloff, Rockledge II, Room 3176, MSC 7768, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892–7768.)
America: History and Life. Annual index, vol. 32, no. 5, 1995. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1996. iii + 589 pp. No price given (paperbound).
Rima D. Apple. Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. Health and Medicine in American Society. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. xi + 245 pp. Ill. $48.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paperbound).
David Arnold, ed. Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500–1900. Clio Medica, vol. 35. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Editions Rodopi, 1996. viii + 240 pp. $36.50; Hfl. 55.00 (paperbound).
Amedeo Avogadro. Saggi e memorie sulla teoria atomica (1811–1838). Biblioteca della Scienza Italiana, no. 8. Florence: Giunti, 1995. 149 pp. No price given (paperbound).
Jeffrey P. Baker. The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. x + 247 pp. Ill. $45.00.
Barry Barnes, David Bloor, and John Henry. Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiii + 230 pp. Ill. $38.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paperbound).
Ronald Elmer Batt, Harold Brody, Shonnie Finnegan, Richard Vaille Lee, John Naughton, Lilli Sentz, Connie Oswald Stofko, and Joyce Ván=a. Another Era: A Pictorial History of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1846–1996. Buffalo, N.Y.: School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the State University of Buffalo, 1996. 192 pp. Ill. No price given.
Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin. Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: The Gastrointestinal Diseases. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xxxii + 557 pp. Ill. $79.50; £50.00.
German E. Berrios. The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology since the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv + 565 pp. $135.00 (cloth); $59.95 (paperbound).
Jack W. Berryman. Out of Many, One: A History of the American College of Sports Medicine. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 1995. x + 414 pp. Ill. $49.00.
Kathryn Black. In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996. ix + 307 pp. Ill. $23.00.
Christian Bonah. Les sciences physiologiques en Europe: analyses comparées du XIXe siècle. Science—Histoire—Philosophe. L’Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Epistémologiques. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1995. vi + 238 pp. Ill. F 162.
John H. Brinton. Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Civil War Surgeon, 1861–1865. Foreword by John Y. Simon; preface by John S. Haller, Jr. Shawnee Classics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1996. xxiv + 861 pp. $14.95 (paperbound).
E. A. Wallis Budge. The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist. Reprint. New York: Dover, 1996. xii + 96 pp. Ill. $4.95 (paperbound).
Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds. Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1696. xviii + 441 pp. $68.00.
Joan Busfield. Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xiv + 287 pp. Ill. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paperbound).
Jeannette Q. Byers, trans. Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996. xviii + 188 pp. Ill. $28.95.
Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating. Exquisite Specificity: The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxi + 243 pp. Ill. $39.95.
Juan L. Carillo, ed. Entre Sevilla y Madrid: estudio sobre Hauser y su entorno. Seville, Spain: privately printed, 1996. xv + 243 pp. Tables, graphs. No price given (paperbound).
Franco Crainz. The Life and Works of Matthew Baillie, MD, FRS L&E, FRCP, etc. (1761–1823). Rome: Peliti Associati...

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