Books Received

Caroline Jean Acker. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 276 pp. $41.95 (0-8018-6798-3).

Peter Bartrip. The Way from Dusty Death: Turner & Newall and the Regulation of Occupational Health in the British Asbestos Industry, 1890s-1970. London: Athlone, 2001. xiii + 386 pp. Tables. $65.00, £55.00 (0-485-11573-5).

Christian Baumann. Der Physiologe Ewald Hering (1834-1918): Curriculum vitae. Deutsche Hochschulschriften, no. 1216. Frankfurt: Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 2002. 171 pp. &#8364 35.00 (3-8267-1216-1).

Samuel W. Bloom. The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii + 348 pp. $60.00 (cloth, 0-19-507232-4), $24.95 (paperbound, 0-19-514929-7).

Alexander Bogdanov. The Struggle for Viability: Collectivism through Blood Exchange. Trans. and ed. by Douglas W. Huestis. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. xiv + 324 pp. Ill. $29.69 (cloth, 1-4010-4194-9), $19.64 (paperbound, 1-4010-4193-0), $8.00 (e-book, 1-4010-4195-7).

Urs Boschung, Barbara Braun-Bucher, Stefan Hächler, Anne Kathrin Ott, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber, eds. Repertorium zu Albrecht von Hallers Korrespondenz, 1724-1777. 2 vols. Studia Halleriana, nos. VII/1, VII/2. Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Vol. 1: xlviii+ 634 pp.; vol. 2: 352 pp., with accompanying CD-ROM. Ill. &#8364 119.00, Sw. Fr. 198.00 (3-7965-1325-5).

Wouter Bracke and Herwig Deumens, eds. Medical Latin from the Late Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop in the Humanities, 3-4 September 1999, Brussels, Belgium. Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae, Series Historica, no. 8. Brussels: Koninklijke Academien voor Geneeskunde van België 2000. xi + 226 pp. &#8364 25.00 (90-75273-26-6).

Juan L. Carrillo, Encarnación Bernal, Agustín Albarracín, Juan A. Micó Navarro, and Víctor M. Nuñez García. Federico Rubio y Galí (1827-1902): Estudio documental y bibliográfico. Biblioteca de Temas Portuenses, no. 15. Santa María, Spain: Ayuntamiento de El Puerto de Santa María, 2002. 142 pp. No price given (paperbound, 84-89141-52-5).

Minta Collins. Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. London: The British Library; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 334 pp. Ill. $Can. 80.00 (cloth, 0-8020-4757-2), $Can. 34.95 (paperbound, 0-8020-8313-7).

Grazia Deledda. The Church of Solitude. Based on the first edition of La chiesa della solitudine (1936). Translated by E. Ann Matter. Women Writers in Translation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 176 pp. $49.50 (cloth, 0-7914-5457-6), $16.95 (paperbound, 0-7914-5458-4).

Joannes de Vesalia. Facsimile van Joannes de Vesalia's pesttraktaat, Hs. Stresa. Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae, Series Historica, no. 6. Brussels: Koninklijke Academien voor Geneeskunde van België. 1998. xii + 226 pp. Ill. &#8364 30.00 (90-75273-24-X).

Ruth Elster, ed. Der Agnes Karll-Verband und sein Eifluß auf die Entwicklung der Krankenpflege in Deutschland: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Pflegeberufe und eines Berufsverbandes. Deutscher Berufsverband für Pflegeberufe. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Mabuse, 2000. 256 pp. Ill. &#8364 29.20 (paperbound, 3-933050-48-0).

Donald S. Frederickson. The Recombinant DNA Controversy: A Memoir: Science, Politics, and the Public Interest, 1974-1981. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Microbiology Press, 2002. xx + 388 pp. Ill. $39.95 (paperbound, 1-55581-222-8).

Zachary B. Friedenberg. Medicine Under Sail. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2002. ix + 172 pp. Ill. $28.95 (1-55750-297-8).

Richard M. Gale, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics. Blackwell Philosophy Guides, no. 8. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2002. viii + 348 pp. $69.95 (0-631-22120-4).

Benoît Gaumer, Georges Desrosiers, and Othmar Keel. Histoire du Service de santé de la ville de Montréal, 1865-1975. Collection Culture et Société. Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Les Éditions de l'IQRC, Les Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2002. xvi + 277 pp. Ill. (softcover, 2...