Books Received

Daniel M. Albert. Dates in Ophthalmology: A Chronological Record of Progress in Ophthalmology over the Last Millennium. Landmarks in Medicine Series. Boca Raton, Fla.: Parthenon, 2002. 232 pp. Ill. $79.95 (1-84214-113-9).

David Armstrong. A New History of Identity: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2002. x + 213 pp. £47.50 (0-333-96892-1).

Diego Armus, ed. Entre médicos y curanderos: Cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna. Colección Vitral. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2002. 455 pp., $18.22 (paperbound, 987-545-062-6).

Diego Armus, ed. Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 326 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth, 0-8223-3057-1); $21.95 (paperbound, 0-8223-3069-5).

Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, and C. U. M. Smith, eds., with the support of Boleslav Lichterman and Rupert Breitwieser. Trepanation: History—Discovery—Theory. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2003. xii + 408 pp. Ill. $99.00, €99.00 (90-265-1923-0).

Josep Lluís Barona, comp. Ciencia, salud pública y exilio (España 1895-1939). Scientia Veterum. Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, no. 9. Sueca, Valencia, Spain: Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, 2003. 283 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 84-370-5550-4).

Josep Lluís Barona, Josep Cortell Moya, and Enrique Perdiguero Gil, eds. Trobades: medi ambient i salut en els municipis valencians. Una perspectiva històrica. Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, no. 5. Sueca, Valencia, Spain: Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, 2002. 372 pp. Ill. No price given (84-699-9887-0).

Tamsyn S. Barton. Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire. The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism. Reprint. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiv + 254 pp. Ill. $49.50, £35.50 (cloth, 0-472-10425-X); $24.95, £18.00 (paperbound, 0-472-08852-1).

P. W. J. Bartrip. The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.Clio Medica, no. 68. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002. iv + 344 pp. Tables. $75.00, €75.00 (cloth, 90-420-1228-5); $35.00, €35.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1218-8).

Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Danielle Quéruel, and Évelyne Samama, eds. Air, Miasmes et Contagion: Les épidémies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Âge. Hommes et Textes en Champagne. Langres, France: Dominique Guéniot 2001. 199 pp. €22.90 (paperbound, 2-87825-208-X).

David Bindman. Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the Eighteenth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. 264 pp. Ill. $39.95 (0-8014-4085-8).

Douglas Biow. Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 224 pp. $39.00, £25.00 (0-226-05171-4).

Geertje Boschma. The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 324 pp. Ill. $30.00, €25.75, £19.00 (paperbound, 90-5356-501-9).

Charles L. Briggs, with Clara Mantini-Briggs. Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xxvi + 430 pp. Ill. $34.95, £24.95 (0-520-23031-0).

Gerard N. Burrow. A History of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing Torches to Others. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xvi + 368 pp. Ill. $40.00 (0-300-09207-5).

J. Stewart Cameron. History of the Treatment of Renal Failure by Dialysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv + 353 pp. Ill. £49.95 (0-19-851547-2).

K. Codell Carter. The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. ix + 237 pp. $99.95 (0-7546-0678-3).

Catherine Ceniza Choy. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration...