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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.3 (1997) 573-580



Books Received *


America: History and Life. Annual index, vol. 33, no. 5, 1996. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1997. iii + 529 pp. No price given (paperbound).

Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xv + 352 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Peter Bartrip. Themselves Writ Large: The British Medical Association, 1832-1966. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1996. xviii + 373 pp. Tables. £32.00.

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Translated by Deborah Van Dam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. 305 pp. $35.00.

Manfred Berg and Geoffrey Cocks, eds. Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany. Publication of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. vii + 242 pp. $59.95.

Shirley Burgoyne Black. An Eighteenth Century Mad-Doctor: William Perfect of West Malling. Sevenoaks, Kent, U.K.: Darenth Valley Publications, 1995. 85 pp. £3.95 (paperbound).

Leslie Brent. A History of Transplantation Immunology. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 1997. xxi + 482 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Charles S. Bryan. Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv + 253 pp. Ill. $37.95.

Grace Budrys. When Doctors Join Unions. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xi + 177 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paperbound).

Edward James Bujold. An Odyssey of Primary Care Research: Historical Perspectives. Granite Falls, N.C.: Speck Publishing Co., 1996. vii + 126 pp. $24.95 (paperbound).

Colin G. Calloway. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi + 229 pp. Ill. $24.95.

Eric Cassell. Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xi + 197 pp. $23.00. Uncorrected proof.

John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992. xiv + 337 pp. $21.50 (paperbound).

Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin, eds. Accidents in History: Injuries, Fatalities and Social Relations. Clio Medica, vol. 41. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Editions Rodopi, 1997. x + 273 pp. $25.00; Hfl. 40.00 (paperbound).

J. K. Crellin, R. R. Andersen, and J. T. H. Connor, comps. and eds. Alternative Health Care in Canada: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1997. viii + 279 pp. $Can. 27.95 (paperbound).

Eileen Crofton. The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front. East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1997. xx + 347 pp. Ill. £17.99.

Walt Crowley. To Serve the Greatest Number: A History of the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Seattle: University of Washington, 1997. xvii + 293 pp. Ill. $19.95.

Ann Dally. Fantasy Surgery, 1880-1930: With Special Reference to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. Clio Medica, vol. 38. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Editions Rodopi, 1996. viii + 359 pp. Hfl. 45.00; $28.00 (paperbound).

Peter Dear, ed. The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe. Readings from Isis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 337 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paperbound).

Armelle Debru. Le corps respirant: la pensée physiologique chez Galien. Studies in Ancient Medicine, no. 13. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1996. viii + 302 pp. $112.50; Nlg. 178.50.

Horacio Fábrega, Jr. Evolution of Sickness and Healing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 364 pp. Ill. $45.00.

Didier Fassin. L'espace politique de la santé: Essai de généalogie. Sociologie d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997. 324 pp. F138.00 (paperbound).

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown, eds. Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiii + 387 pp. Ill. $39.95.

Peter Fleming. A Short History of Cardiology. Clio Medica, vol. 40. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Editions Rodopi, 1997. xviii + 241 pp. $21.50; Hfl. 35.00 (paperbound).

Joan H. Fujimura. Crafting Science: A...

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