Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.4 (2001) 839-846

Books Received*

Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev. A Historical Survey of Medicinal Substances of the al-Sham Region during the Middle Ages (640-1517 CE) / Seker histori shel homre ha-marpe be-'erets yisra'el u-ve-suryah ('alsham) bi-me ha-benayim. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University; and Jerusalem: C. G. Foundation, 1999. 24 pp. in English, 32 pp. in Hebrew. Ill. No price given. (Available from Dr. Zohar Amar, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900.)

Zohar Amar, Efraim Lev, and Joshua Schwartz, eds. Medicine in Jerusalem throughout the Ages/ Ha-refu'ah bi-Yerushalayim le-doroteha. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University; and Jerusalem: C. G. Foundation, 1999. lix + 148 pp. Ill. No price given. (Available from Dr. Zohar Amar, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900.)

Roland Andréani, Henri Michel, and Elie Pélaquier, eds. Hellénisme et Hippocratisme dans l'Europe méditerranéenne: autour de D. Coray. Proceedings of a conference held 20-21 March 1998 in Montpellier. Université de Montpellier III: Centre d'histoire moderne et contemporaine de l'Europe méditerranéenne et de ses périphéries. Montpellier, France: Université Paul-Valéry, 2000. 304 pp. Fr. F. 150.00 (paperbound, 2-84269-383-3).

Roger Arnaldez. Averroes: A Rationalist in Islam. Trans. by David Streight. Originally published as Averroes: un rationaliste en Islam (2d ed., 1998). Notre Dame, In.: Notre Dame University press, 2000. 157 pp. $34.95 (cloth, 0-268-02007-8), $18.00 (paperbound, 0-268-02008-6).

Hans A. Baer. Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii + 222 pp. Tables. $55.00 (cloth, 0-299-16690-2), $21.95 (paperbound, 0-299-16694-5).

Steve Baldwin and Melissa Oxlad. Electroshock and Minors: A Fifty-Year Review. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. ix + 162 pp. Tables. $59.95 (0-313-30861-6).

Vincent Barras and Micheline Louis-Courvoisier, eds. La médecine des lumières: tout autour de Tissot. Bibliothèque d'Histoire des Sciences, no. 3. Geneva: Georg, 2001. vii + 358 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 50.00 (paperbound, 2-8257-0704-X).

Angelo Bassani, ed. La chimica e le tecnologie chimiche nel Veneto dell '800. Seminari si Storia delle Scienze e delle Tecniche, no. 7. Proceedings of the Seventh Seminar on the History of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Venice, 9-10 October 1998, Venice, Italy. Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2001. 513 pp. Ill. L. 110,000.00; E 56.81 (paperbound, 88-86166-89-3).

Derrick Baxby. Smallpox Vaccine, ahead of its Time: How the Late Development of Laboratory Methods and Other Vaccines Affected the Aceptance of Smallpox Vaccine. Berkeley, U.K.: Jenner Museum, 2001. 37 pp. Ill. £1.50 + £1.00 postage (paperbound).

Alex Berman and Michael A. Flannery. America's Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi. New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001. xxiii + 289 pp. Ill. $69.95 (cloth, 0-7890-0899-8), $24.95 (paperbound, 0-7890-1235-9).

Debra Jan Bibel. Microbial Musings: A History of Microbiology. Belmont, Calif.: Star Publishing, 2001. xxv + 398 pp. Ill. $38.95 (paperbound, 0-89863-211-0).

Edward Bliss, Jr. Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932. New York: John Wiley, 2001. viii + 246 pp. Ill. $U.S. 24.95; $Can. 37.50 (0-471-39759-8).

Louis Breger. Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. viii + 472 pp. Ill. $U.S. 30.00; $Can. 46.50 (0-471-31628-8).

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson. No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 293 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-8018-6598-0).

Geoffrey Chamberlain. Victor Bonney: The Gynaecological Surgeon of the Twentieth Century. New York: Parthenon, 2000. xi + 140 pp. Ill. $29.95 (1-85070-712-X).

David T. Courtwright. Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America. Enlarged edition of...