Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.4 (2002) 866-872

Books Received *

Jean Blancou. Histoire de la surveillance et du contrôle des maladies animales transmissible. Paris: Office Internationale des Épizooties, 2000. xiv + 366 pp. Ill. 40.00 (92-9044-506-8).

Jane Buckingham. Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2002. xi + 236 pp. $60.00 (0-333-92622-6).

Michele Buniva. Memoria al figlio unigenito. Edited by Gianni Losano and Giuseppi Slaviero. Archivio Scientifico e Tecnologico dell' Università di Torino, Strumenti per la storia della scienza subalpina. Turin, Italy: Università degli Studi di Torino, 2000. vii + 166 pp. Ill. Paperbound. (Available gratis from: Archivio Scientifico e Tecnologico dell' Università di Torino, Via Accademia delle Scienze, 5, 10123 Torino, Italy.)

Elisabeth Crawford, ed. Historical Studies in the Novel Archives: The Prizes in Science and Medicine. Uppsala Studies in the History of Science, no. 31. Tokyo: Universal Academy Press, Inc., 2002. vii + 161 pp. ¥3,600.00 (paperbound, 4-946443-69-X).

John Thorne Crissey, Lawrence Parish, and Charles Holubar. Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists. New York: Parthenon, 2002. xxii + 234 pp. Ill. $89.95 (1-84214-100-7).

Frank Cullen. Cleansing Rural Dublin: Public Health and Housing Initiatives in the South Dublin Poor Law Union, 1880-1920. Maynooth Studies in Irish Local History, no. 40. Dublin, Ireland; and Portland, Ore.: Irish Academic Press, 2001. vii + 61 pp. Ill. $12.50 (paperbound, 0-7165-2738-3).

Philip D. Curtin. Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. x + 348 pp. Ill. $111.95 (0-86078-833-4).

Thomas M. Daniel, Gerald L. Baum. Drama and Discovery: The Story of Histoplasmosis. Contributions in Medical Studies, no. 48. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xii + 175 pp. Ill. $64.95 (0-313-32162-0).

Dominique de Montmollin, with the assistance of Michel Schlup and Michael Schmidt. L'illustration anatomique de la Renaissance au siècle des Lumières: Catalog of the exhibit, 22 January - 23 April 1998. Patrimoine de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire. Neuchâtel: Bibliothèque publique et universitaire. 1998. 95 pp. Ill. No price given (softcover, 2-88225-013-4).

Martin Dinges, ed. Patients in the History of Homoeopathy. Network Series, no. 5. Sheffield, U.K.: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, 2002. xiii + 434 pp. £52.10 (U.S.A.), £39.95 (U.K.), £43.33 (Europe), £47.82 (elsewhere) (0-9536522-4-6).

Michael A. Dreese. The Hospital on Seminary Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2002. viii + 200 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-7864-1224-0).

Barbara Duden, Jürgen Schlumbohm, and Patrice Veit, eds. Geschichte des Ungeborenen: Zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Schwangerschaft, 17.-20. Jahrhundert. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, no. 170. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002. 328 pp. Ill. 36.00 (3-525-35365-0).

Jonathan Engel. Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate over Health Policy, 1925-1950. Social Problems and Social Issues. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xvii + 407 pp. Ill. $24.95 (paperbound, 1-57003-411-7).

Waltraud Ernst, ed. Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000. Studies in the Social History of Medicine, no. 13. London: Routledge, 2002. xiii + 253 pp. Ill. $95.00 (0-415-23122-1).

Sharla M. Fett. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 290 pp. Ill. $39.95 (cloth, 0-8078-2709-6), $18.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5378-X).

B. G. Firkin and J. A. Whitworth. Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. 2d ed. New York: Parthenon, 2002. viii + 443 pp. Ill. $67.95 (cloth, 1-85070-477-5), $37.95 (paperbound, 1-85070-333-7).

Jean-Marie Galmiche. Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualité des maladies nosocomiales. Paris: Éditions Louis Pariente, 1999. 510 pp. Ill. 57.17 (casebound, 2-84059-040-9).

Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Inventer la biomédecine: La france, l'amérique et la production...