Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.3 (2002) 660-666

Books Received*

Karel B. Absolon, ed. Anthrax—The Glorious Past. Robert Koch—Louis Pasteur. Vol. 1, A Sourcebook; Vol. 2, Addenda. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2002. 450 + 249 pp. Ill. $79.99 (1-57529-094-4).

Karel B. Absolon and Mohammad A. Naficy. First Successful Cardiac Operation in a Human, 1896, a Documentation: The Life, the Times and the Work of Ludwig Rehn (1849-1930). Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2002. 246 pp. Ill. $79.99 (1-57529-093-6).

Ken Albala. Eating Right in the Renaissance. California Studies in Food and Culture, no. 2. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 315 pp. Ill. $39.95; £27.95 (0-520-22947-9).

Warwick Anderson. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. xi + 352 pp. Ill. $Aust. 34.95 (softcover, 0-522-84989-X).

Jeremiah A. Barondess and Charles G. Roland, eds. The Persisting Osler III: Selected Transactions of the American Osler Society, 1991-2000. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 2002. xi + 278 pp. Ill. $49.50 (1-57524-191-9).

Alex Beam. Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 273 pp. Ill. $U.S. 26.00, $Can. 39.50 (1-891620-75-4).

Marco Beretta. Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Bologna Studies in Scientific Heritage, no. 1; Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Vol. 29. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications/USA, 2001. xvii + 126 pp. Ill. $29.95 (0-88135-294-2).

Dinesh Bhugra and Roland Littlewood, eds. Colonialism and Psychiatry. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 264 pp. Tables. Rs. 595.00 (0-195-65286-X).

M. Donald Blaufox. An Ear to the Chest: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Stethoscope. Lancaster, U.K.: Parthenon, 2002. xiv + 149 pp. Ill. $74.95, £52.99 (1-85070-278-0).

Barbara Brookes and Jane Thomson, eds. "Unfortunate Folk": Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992. Dunedin, N.Z.: University of Otago Press, 2001. 302 pp. Ill. $39.95 (1-877276-09-X).

W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton. An American Health Dilemma. Vol. 2, Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States, 1900-2000. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxiv + 854 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-415-92737-4).

D. A. Christie and E. M. Tansey, eds. Maternal Care. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 12. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2001. viii + 88 pp. £5.00 + postage (paperbound, 0-854840-79-6). (Available from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD, England.)

Felip Cid. Pablo Umbert: Su aportación a la Dermatología (1901-1922). Barcelona: Espaxs, 2001. 227 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 84-7179-300-8).

Angela Creager. The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiv + 398 pp. Ill. $75.00, £47.50 (cloth, 0-226-12025-2); $27.50, £16.00 (paperbound, 0-226-12026-0).

Adrien Dolivo. La pharmacie vaudoise au temps de la prépondérance radicale, 1845-1925. Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie / Publications de la Société suisse d'histoire de la pharmacie, vol. 21. Bern: SGGP/SSHP, 2000. 519 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 56.00 (paperbound, 3-9520759-8-4).

Angelika Ebbinghau and Klaus Dörner, eds. Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2001. 675 pp. Ill. s34.00; Sw. Fr. 60.00 (3-351-02514-9).

Jerry Floersch. Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xii + 266 pp. Tables. $49.50, £34.50 (cloth, 0-231-12272-1), $22.50, £15.50 (0-231-12273-X, paperbound).

Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. ix + 519 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth, 0-8223...