Books Received

James P. Allen, with an essay by David T. Mininberg. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt. Catalog for the exhibition "The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 13 September 2005–15 January 2006. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 115 pp. Ill. $19.95 (paperbound, 0-300-10728-5).

Stuart Anderson, ed. Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals. London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2005. xviii + 318 pp. Ill. $39.95 (0-85369-597-0).

Adam Ashforth. Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xx + 396 pp. Ill. $25.00, £17.50 (paperbound, 0-226-02974-3).

Douglas R. Bacon, Kathryn E. McGoldrick, and Mark J. Lema, eds. The American Society of Anesthesiologists: A Century of Challenges and Progress. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library–Museum of Anesthesiology, 2005. xii + 225 pp. Ill. $55.00 (1-889595-15-2).

Linda L. Barnes. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing and the West to 1848. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 458 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-674-01872-9).

A. W. Bates. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe. Clio Medica, no. 77. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2005. 334 pp. Ill. $86.00, €68.00 (90-420-1862-3).

Virginia Berridge, ed. Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy after 1945. Clio Medica, no. 75. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2005. 336 pp. $94.00, €75.00 (90-420-1824-0).

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison, and Michael Worboys. Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India, 1800–1947. New Perspectives in South Asian History, no. 11. Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman, 2005. x + 264 pp. Ill. Rs 630.00 (81-250-2866-8).

Michael Bliss. Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 591 pp. Ill. $40.00 (0-19-516989-1).

Gunnar Broberg and Nils Roll-Hansen, eds. Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. 2d ed. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005. xviii + 294 pp. Tables. $24.95 (paperbound, 0-87013-758-1).

Rebecca Barbour Calcutt. Richmond's Wartime Hospitals. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 2005. 224 pp. Ill. $22.00 (ISBN-10:1-58980-297-1; ISBN-13: 9781589802971).

Catherine Carstairs. Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920–1961. Studies in Gender and History, no. 26. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii + 241 pp. Graphs. $55.00, £35.00 (cloth, 0-8020-9029-X); $24.95, £15.00 (paperbound, 0-8020-9372-8).

Margaret R. Currie. Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses: A British Social History of Fever Nursing: A National Service. London: Routledge, 2005. xiv + 242 pp. Ill. $105.00 (0-415-35164-2).

Patrick Dandrey. Anthologie de l'humeur noire. Écrits sur la mélancolie d'Hippocrate à l'Encyclopédie. Paris: Gallimard–Promeneur, 2005. 791 pp. €39.99 (paperbound, 2-07-077547-X).

Simon de Vallambert. Cinq Livres, De la manière de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance. Critical edition by Colette H. Winn. Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 74. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2005. 512 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 108.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 2-600-01029-7; ISBN-13: 978-2-600-1029-0).

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anarzarbus. De materia medica. Trans. by Lily Y. Beck. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, no. 38. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms-Weidmann, 2005. xxviii + 540 pp. €78.00 (paperbound, 3-487-12881-0).

Ian Dowbiggin. A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine. Critical Issues in History. vii + 163 pp. $22.95 (0-7425-3110-4).

Alice Domurat Dreger. One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. Reprint Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 198 pp. Ill. $14.95 (paperbound, 0-674-01825-7).

Jacalyn Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice. Oxford: Oxford University...