Books Received

Josep L. Barona and Josep Bernabeu-Mestre. La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945). València: Universitat de València, 2008. 366 pp. Ill. (paperbound, 978-84-370-6974-6).

Donald A. Barr. Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xv + 295 pp. Ill. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-8018-8820-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8820-5) $40.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-8018-8821-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8821-2).

Daniel Beer. Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. ix + 229 pp. $45.00, £22.95 (978-0-8014-4627-6).

Thomas Bewley. Madness to Mental Illness: A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. London: The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2008. x + 158 pp. Ill. £35.00 (978-1-904671-35-0).

Roberta Bivins. Alternative Medicine? A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvii + 238 pp. Ill. £14.99 (978-0-19-921887-5).

Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone, eds. Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. x + 295 pp. Ill. $85.00 (ISBN-10: 0-230-52549-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-52549-8).

Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh. Maimonides On Asthma. Vol. 2. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2008. lxii + 726 pp. $74.95, £39.00 (ISBN-10: 0-842-52690-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-842-52690-6).

Deborah Brunton. The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, xi + 255 pp. Ill. $85.00, £50.00 (ISBN-10: 1-58046-036-4, ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-036-1).

Frederick Burkhardt, ed. Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1822-1859. Anniversary Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxviii + 253 pp. $28.00 (978-0-521-89862-1).

Frederick Burkhardt, Samantha Evans, and Alison Pearn, eds. Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1860-1870. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 308 pp. $28.00 (978-0-521-87412-0).

David Cantor. Cancer in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. vii + 350 pp. Ill. $25.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-8018-8867-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8867-0).

Elise Chenier. Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario. Studies in Gender and History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xii + 294 pp. Ill. $75.00, £48.00 (cloth, 978-0-8020-9226-7), $35.00, £22.50 (paperbound, 978-0-8020-9453-7).

James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner, eds. The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. viii + 293 pp. Ill. $70.00 (cloth, 978-0-8135-4311-6), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-4312-3).

Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz, eds. Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. xv + 307 pp. Ill. $85.00 (cloth, 978-0-7735-3399-8), $32.95 (paperbound, 978-0-7735-3400-1).

Gordon C. Cook. Disease in the Merchant Navy: A History of the Seamen's Hospital Society. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007. vi + 630 pp. Ill. $145.00, £75.00 (978-1-84619-236-4).

Anne Cottebrune. Der planbare Mensch: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und die menschliche Vererbungswissenschaft, 1920-1970. Studien zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 298 pp. €44.00 (paperbound, 978-3-515-09099-5).

Michael Cowan. Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xi + 343 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-271-03206-1).

Erika Dyck. Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 199 pp. Ill. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-8994-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8994-3).

Marion Girard. A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Responses to...