Books Received

Marcia Angell. Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. 256 pp. $U.S. 27.50; $Can. 35.00.

Carol Benedict. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx + 256 pp. Ill. $39.50.

Thomas H. Broman. The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 209 pp. $54.95.

Charles S. Bryan. A Most Satisfactory Man: The Story of Theodore Brevard Hayne, Last Martyr of Yellow Fever. Charleston, S.C.: Waring Library Society, 1996. x + 166 pp. Ill. $19.95.

Philip Cushman. Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy. Reprint. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. xiii + 430 pp. $14.00 (paperbound).

Allen G. Debus. Paracelso e la Tradizione Paracelsiana. Trans. by Bruna Foglia, Elisabetta Scapparone, Letizia Pierozzi, and Emilia Di Martino, from “Paracelsus and the Paracelsian Tradition,” a seminar given at the University of Chicago, 9–12 April 1990. Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici il pensiero e la storia, no. 19. Naples: La Città del Sole, 1996. 126 pp. L 24,000.00 (paperbound).

Ute Deichmann. Biologists under Hitler. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xviii + 468 pp. $39.95.

Raymond G. DeVries. Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine, and the Law. 2d ed. Women and Health series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. xxxiii + 232 pp. $18.95 (paperbound).

Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann, eds. Die Medizin und der Erste Weltkrieg. Neuere, Medizin-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Quellen und Studien, no. 3. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1996. 377 pp. Tables. DM 58.00 (paperbound).

Wolfgang U. Eckart and Klaus Volkert, eds. Hermann von Helmholtz: Vorträge eines Heidelberger Symposiums anläßlich des einhundertsten Todestages. Neuere, Medizin-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Quellen und Studien, no. 2. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1996. 336 pp. Ill. DM 49.80 (paperbound).

William E. Engel. Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England. Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. xiv + 287 pp. Ill. $50.00.

Steven Epstein. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Medicine and Society series. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xiii + 466 pp. $29.95.

Robert H. Ferrell. The Strange Deaths of President Harding. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. x + 203 pp. $24.95.

Marian Fournier. The Fabric of Life: Microscopy in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 267 pp. Ill. $47.50.

Joan H. Fujimura. Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer. Uncorrected proof. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xii + 312 pp. $45.00.

Richard Gordon. Famous and Difficult! Patients: An Alarming History of Maladies and Malingerers. Uncorrected proof. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. v + 229 pp. No price given.

Mirko D. Grmek. Il calderone di Medea: La sperimentazione sul vivente nell’Antichità. Lezioni italiane, Fondazione Sigma-Tau, no. 14. Rome: Editori Laterza, 1996. xi + 144 pp. L 18,000.00 (paperbound).

Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, eds. Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. ix + 275 pp. Ill. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paperbound).

Ellen Herman. The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Reprint. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. xiii + 406 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Hippocrate. Airs, Eaux, Lieux. Book 2, Part 2. Edited and translated by Jacques Jouanna. Collections des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1996. 374 pp. No price given.

Joel D. Howell. Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century. Reprint. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xv + 341 pp. Ill. $16.95 (paperbound).

Raymond Hurt. The History of Cardiothoracic Surgery from Early Times. New York: Parthenon, 1996. xviii + 514 pp. Ill. $98.00.

Anne Hutchings, Alan Haxton Scott, Gillian Lewis, and Anthony Balfour Cunningham, comps. Zulu Medicinal Plants: An Inventory. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, in association with the University of Zululand and the National Botanical Institute, 1996. xii + 450 pp. Ill. $133.00 (paperbound).

Simon Kemp. Cognitive Psychology in the Middle Ages. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996. 139 pp. $52...