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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.2 (2002) 418-420



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Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh, eds. Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. xvi + 374 pp. Ill. $29.95 (paperbound, 0-7546-0031-9).

In an introduction entitled "Mothering Others: Caregiving as Spectrum and Spectacle in the Early Modern Period," Naomi Miller sets out the intent of the book: to "span the disciplines of literature, music, and art history and explore a spectrum of caregiving roles and practices in Europe and the New World" (p. 8).

Part 1, "Conception and Lactation," comprises essays by Judith Rose, "Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola"; Caroline Bicks, "Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England"; Naomi Yavneh, "To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola's Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding"; and Rachel Trubowitz, "'But Blood Whitened': Nursing Mothers and Others in Early Modern Britain."

Part 2, "Nurture and Instruction," contains "Language and 'Mothers' Milk': Maternal Roles and the Nurturing Body in Early Modern Spanish Texts," by Emilie L. Bergmann; "Motherhood and Protestant Polemics: Stillbirth in Hans von Rüte's Abgotterei (1531)," by Glenn Ehrstine; "The Virgin's Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song," by Claire Fontijn; and "'His open side our book': Meditation and Education in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscellanea Meditations Memoratives," by Edith Snook. [End Page 418]

Part 3, entitled "Domestic Production," contains "Negativizing Nurture and Demonizing Domesticity: The Witch Construct in Early Modern Germany," by Nancy Hayes; "The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Visé's L'embarras de Godard, ou l'Accouchée," by Deborah Steinberger; "'Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds': Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women," by Mary Thomas Crane; and "Maternal Textualities," by Susan Frye.

Part 4, "Social Authority," contains essays by Linda Phyllis Austern, "'My Mother Musicke': Music and Early Modern Fantasies of Embodiment"; Frances E. Dolan, "Marian Devotion and Maternal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England"; Kathryn Schwartz, "Mother Live: Clichés and Amazons in Early Modern England"; and Kari Boyd McBride, "Native Mothers, Native Others: La Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea."

Part 5, "Mortality," includes "London's Mourning Garment: Maternity, Mourning and Royal Succession," by Patricia Phillippy; "Early Modern Medea: Representations of Child Murder in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England," by Susan C. Staub; and "'I fear there will be a worse come in his place': Surrogate Parents and Shakespeare's Richard III," by Heather Dubrow.

Geoffrey Davenport, Ian McDonald, and Caroline Moss-Gibbons, eds. The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections: An Illustrated History. London: James & James, 2001. 168 pp. Ill. £38.00 (overseas, £45.00) (0-907-383-831).

Founded in 1518, The Royal College of Physicians of London has had a rich and varied history and has accumulated many bibliographic and artistic treasures. Its story and holdings have been documented previously in a number of large works: Sir G. N. Clark's three-volume history; G. E. W. Wolstenholme's two-volume catalog of its portrait collection; William Munk's three-volume collection of biographical sketches; George Whitfield's work on the College's early registrars; A. H. Driver's catalog of its collection of engraved portraits; and the College's own published library catalog. In this relatively short volume, Geoffrey Davenport, the retired librarian of the College, and his fellow editors have provided an attractive, heavily illustrated, and convenient guide to the history of the College: there are biographies of its notable Fellows and descriptions of library, archive, portrait, and artifact collections, as well as a number of interesting historical essays on special topics. A supplement to Wolstenholme's portrait catalog is also provided. [End Page 419]

John R. Pierce and James V. Writer, eds. Solving the Mystery of Yellow Fever: The 1900 U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board. Supplement to Military Medicine, vol. 166, no. 9, September 2001. Bethesda, Md.: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, 2001. 82 pp. Ill...

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