Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74.2 (2000) 425-431

Books Received

Giovanni Felice Azzone. Medicine from Art to Science: The Role of Complexity and Evolution. IVSLA series, vol. 1. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1998. viii + 197 pp. $60.00.

Robert B. Baker, Arthur L. Caplan, Linda L. Emanuel, and Stephen R. Latham, eds. The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxxix + 396 pp. $59.95.

Sandra Lee Barney. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 222 pp. Ill. $39.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paperbound).

Änne Bäumer. Wisse die Wege: Leben und Werk Hildegards von Bingen. Eine Monographie zu ihrem 900. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998. xii + 388 pp. $39.95 (paperbound).

Alexander G. Bearn, ed. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, vol. 234. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. xxvi + 307 pp. Ill. $30.00.

Udo Benzenhöfer. Der Gute Tod? Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1999. 272 pp. DM 24.00; öS 175.00 (paperbound).

Alan Bewell. Romanticism and Colonial Disease. Medicine and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xv + 373 pp. Ill. $45.00.

Horst Biesold. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany. Originally published as Klagende Hände (Solms, Germany: Jarick Oberbiel, 1988). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. xix + 230 pp. Ill. $39.95.

Anne Borsay. Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xii + 484 pp. Ill. $96.95.

Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Inside Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 377 pp. Ill. $29.95.

Robert Boyd. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xv + 403 pp. Ill. $50.00.

Andrea Carlino. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning. Trans. by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 266 pp. $29.00; £20.50.

Celeste Michelle Condit. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. Rhetoric of the Human Sciences. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xi + 325 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperbound).

Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison, and Steve Sturdy, eds. Medicine and Modern Warfare. Clio Medica, Vol. 55. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1999. iii + 286 pp. $83.00 (cloth), $25.50 (paperbound); Hfl. 150.00 (cloth), 45.00 (paperbound).

Donald T. Critchlow. Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 307 pp. $30.00.

Robert A. Crone. A History of Color: The Evolution of Theories of Lights and Color. Reprinted from Documenta Ophthalmologia, vol. 96, nos. 1-3, 1999. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 1999. 282 pp. Ill. $67.00; Nlg. 110.00; £38.00.

Patrick F. D'Arcy. Laboratory on the Nile: A History of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 1999. xv + 281 pp. Ill. $49.95.

Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 511 pp. Ill. $36.50.

Derek Dow. Maori Health & Government Policy, 1840-1940. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press, 1999. 280 pp. Ill. $NZ 39.95 (paperbound).

Jacalyn Duffin. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xvi + 432 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paperbound).

Carl Elliott and John Lantos, eds. The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. ix + 167 pp. $45.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paperbound).

Peter C. English. Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and...