Books Received

Diego Armus, ed. Avatares de la medicalización en América latina 1870–1970. Colección Salud Colectiva. Buenos Aires: Lugar Editorial, 2005. 304 pp. $Ar(Peso)38.00, $U.S.12.75, €10.50 (paperbound, 950-892-214-1).

Arnaldi de Villanova. Opera Medica Omnia. Vol. XVII. Translatio libri Albuzale de medicinis simplicibus / Abū-l-Salt umayya, Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada / Llibre d'albumesar de simples medecines. Translation, editing, and commentary by Ana Labarta, José Martínez Gázquez, Michael R. McVaugh, Danielle Jacquart, and Lluís Cifuentes. Seminarium Historiae Scientiae Barchinone (C.S.I.C.). Barcelona, Spain: Universitat de Barcelona, 2004. 625 pp. €55.00 (paperbound, 84-9779-240-8).

Douglas Biklen. Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone. Qualitative Studies in Psychology. New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii + 304 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 0-8147-9927-2), $21.00 (paperbound, 0-8147-9928-0).

Stuart J. Borsch. The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xii + 195 pp. Ill. $50.00 (0-292-70617-0).

Leslie A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford, eds. Famine and Disease in Ireland. 5 vols. Vol. 1, General Introduction, William Robert Wills Wilde, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part V: Tables of Deaths (1856); Vol. 2, Charles E. Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (1848), The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (1849) (excerpts); Vol. 3, Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately Epidemical in Ireland (2 vols, 1821), vol. 1; Vol. 4, Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately Epidemical in Ireland (2 vols, 1821), vol. 2; Vol. 5, [Jonathan Swift] A Short View of the State of Ireland (1727–8), John Rutty, A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin (1770), William Harty, An Historic Sketch of the Causes, Progress, Extent, and Mortality of the Contagious Fever Epidemic in Ireland during the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819 (1920) (excerpt), Index. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005. Vol. 1: xxxii+ 555 pp. (facsimiles); Vol. 2: viii + 330 pp. (facsimiles); Vol. 3: viii + 531 pp. (facsimiles); Vol. 4: 387 pp. (facsimiles); Vol. 5: ix + 517 pp. (facsimiles). Set: $750.00 (1-85196-791-5).

E. E. Cockayne and N. J. Stow, eds. Stutter's Casebook: A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839–1841. Suffolk Records Society, vol. 48. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2005. xliii + 178 pp. Ill. $60.00 (1-84383-113-9).

Lisa Forman Cody. Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxi + 353 pp. Ill. $99.00 (0-19-926864-9).

Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch. Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 246 pp. Ill. $25.00, £17.50 (0-226-11366-3).

Pete Daniel. Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, in association with Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. 2005 xii + 209 pp. Ill. $26.95 (0-8071-3098-2).

Elizabeth Ann Danto. Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1923. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xi + 348 pp. Ill. $29.50 (0-231-13180-1).

Helen M. Dingwall. "A Famous and Flourishing Society": The History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1505–2005. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xxiii + 336 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-7486-1567-9). (Distributed by Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY.)

Martin A. Estin. Edward Archibald: Surgeon of the Royal Vic. Fontanus Monograph Series, no. XVI. Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2004. xi + 222 pp. Ill. $60.00 (0-7735-2951-9).

Mary E. Fissell. Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004...