Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.3 (2001) 632-638

Books Received*

America: History and Life. Annual index, vol. 37, no. 5, 2000. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2001. iii + 584 pp. No price given (paperbound, ISSN 0002-7065).

Karel B. Absolon. The First Book Devoted to Gastric Surgery: The 1643 Gastrotomy for Removal of a Swallowed Knife. Facsimiles and Explications by Karel B. Absolon. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2001. 138 pp. Ill. $39.99 (1-57529-091-X).

Vincent Barras and Michel Porret, eds. Homo criminalis: pratiques et doctrines médico-légales (XVIe-XXe siècles). Equinoxe: Revue Romande de Sciences Humaines, no. 22. Geneva: Association de la revue Equinoxe, 1999. 148 pp. Sw. Fr. 33; Fr. F. 132.00 (paperbound, 2-940-22705-5).

Josep Bernabeu Mestre and Encarna Gascón Pérez. Historia de la Enfermería de Salud Pública en España (1860-1977). Alicante, Spain: Universidad de Alicante, 1999. 103 pp. Tables. No price given (paperbound, 84-7908-513-4).

Christine M. Boeckl. Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series, vol. LIII. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2000. xiv + 210 pp. Ill. $35.00 (paperbound, 0-943-54985-X).

Thomas Neville Bonner. Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xii + 412 pp. $17.95 (0-8018-6482-8).

Sandra Caponi. Da compaixão à solidariedade: uma genealogia da assistência médica. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 2000. 100 pp. No price given (paperbound, 85-85676-88-4).

David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. viii + 277 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-00458-2).

Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 360 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth, 0-521-46135-9), $22.95 (paperbound, 0-521-46701-2).

Thomas M. Daniel. Pioneers of Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2000. xiii + 255 pp. Ill. $65.00 (1-580-46067-4).

Cynthia J. Davis. Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. viii + 256 pp. $49.50 (0-8047-3773-8).

Saul Dubow, ed. Science and Society in Southern Africa. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2000. x + 241 pp. $74.95 (0-7190-5812-0).

Michael Dunnill. The Plato of Praed Street: The Life and Times of Almroth Wright. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2000. xiii + 269 pp. Ill. £17.50 (1-85315-477-6).

David G. Gilmore. Misogyny: The Male Malady. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix + 248 pp. Uncorrected proofs, $26.50; £19.00 (0-8122-
3608-4).

James E. Goggin and Eileen Brockman Goggin. Death of a "Jewish Science": Psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. West Lafayette, In.: Purdue University Press, 2001. xvi + 242 pp. $32.95 (1-557-53193-5).

Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh. The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii + 282 pp. $27.95 (0-521-56123-X).

Lorine Swainston Goodwin. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 1999. viii + 352 pp. $45.00 (0-786-40618-6).

Mark Grant. Galen on Food and Diet. London: Routledge, 2000. ix + 214 pp. $85.00 (cloth, 0-415-23232-5), $25.99 (paperbound, 0-415-23233-3).

Rolande J. Graves. Born to Procreate: Women and Childbirth in France from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. Studies in the Humanities, no. 53. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2001. x + 162 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-820-44907-5).

Monica H. Green, ed. and trans. The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xvii + 301 pp. Ill. $55.00 (0-8122-3589-4).

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