Books Received

Lawrence K. Altman. Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine. Reprint, with a new preface. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. xxvi + 430 pp. $17.95 (paperbound).

Alison Bashford. Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine. Studies in Gender History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. xvii + 188 pp. $59.95.

Stanley B. Burns. A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from The Burns Archive and Collection, 1843–1939. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 1998. 164 pp. Ill. $60.00.

Noble David Cook. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650. New Approaches to the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 248 pp. Ill. $54.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paperbound).

Herbert C. Covey. Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1998. xvii + 305 pp. Ill. $62.95 (cloth), $49.95 (paperbound).

Philip D. Curtin. Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 256 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperbound).

Paul Dijsatelberge, comp. Plague and Print in the Netherlands: A Short-title Catalogue of Publications in the University Library of Amsterdam. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 1997. 360 pp. Ill. Hfl. 120.00.

Alice Domurat Dreger. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiii + 268 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Julie Fairman and Joan Lynaugh. Critical Care Nursing: A History. Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. x + 175 pp. Ill. $27.50, £25.00 (paperbound).

Sara Ferri, ed. Pietro Andrea Mattioli: La Vita, Le Opere. Perugia, Italy: Quattroemme, 1997. 405 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

Peter G. Filene. In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. xvii + 282 pp. Ill. $27.50.

Nina Rattner Gelbart. The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 347 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Julia Grant. Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ix + 309 pp. $30.00.

Charles G. Gross. Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Bradford Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. xviii + 255 pp. Ill. $32.50.

Michael Hagner. Homo cerebralis: Der Wandel vom Seelenorgan zum Gehirn. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1997. 382 pp. DM 48.00; öS 350.00; Sw. Fr. 46.00.

Oliver S. Hayward and Constance E. Putnam. Improve, Perfect, and Perpetuate: Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1998. xxxiv +362 pp. Ill. $35.00.

David Healy. The Antidepressant Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xi + 305 pp. $39.95.

Gregory J. Higby and Elaine C. Stroud, eds. The Inside Story of Medicines: A Symposium. Publication no. 16 (n.s.). Madison, Wisc.: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1997. ix + 304 pp. Ill. $25.00 (cloth), $15.00 (paperbound).

Martha L. Hildreth and Bruce T. Moran, eds. Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History, and Practice. Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. xix + 154 pp. Ill. $39.95.

David Farrell Krell. Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1998. x + 243 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paperbound).

Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin, eds. Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii + 342 pp. Ill. $U.S. 55.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paperbound); £43.95 (cloth), £15.25 (paperbound).

Marvin Lieberman and Leon J. Warshaw. The New York Academy of Medicine, 1947–1997: Enhancing the Health of the Public. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1998. xi + 415 pp. $69.50.

José María López Piñero and María Luz López Terrada. La influencia española en la introducción en Europa de la plantas americanas (1493–1623). Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, no. 53, ser. A (Monografías). Valencia, Spain: Universidad de València...