Books Received

Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, eds. Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West. Micrologus’ Library 25. Florence: Simel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008. xii + 277 pp. Ill. €46.00 (978-88-8450-300-8).

Robert Baker and Laurence B. McCullough, eds. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxviii + 876 pp. $250.00 (978-0-521-88879-0).

Lars Bisgaard and Leif Søndergaard, eds. Living with The Black Death. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2009. 233 pp. Ill. (978-87-7674-389-5).

Guillemette Bolens. Le style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire. Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2008. xii + 155 pp. €24.20 (978-2-9700536-7-5).

Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio and Thomas Ricklin, eds. Exempla medicorum: Die Ärzte und ihre Beispiele (14.–18. Jahrhundert). Micrologus’ Library 26. Florence: Simel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008. xx + 247 pp. Ill. €46.00 (978-88-8450-308-4).

Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy, eds. Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. 223 pp. Ill. $56.95 (978-3-631-58044-8).

Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone, eds. The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences. Volume 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvi + 662 pp. Ill. $160.00 (978-0-521-57201-9).

Gert H. Brieger, ed. Medical America in the Nineteenth Century: Readings from the Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x + 338 pp. $30.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9268-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9268-4).

Donald Caton and Kathryn E. McGoldrick, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: The Joy of Volunteering, Volume XI. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2008. ix + 199 pp. Ill. $50.00 (1-889595-17-9).

Tom Debley. The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care. Oakland, Calif.: The Permanente Press, 2009. xx + 148 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-0-9770463-2-4).

Matthew D. Eddy. The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2008. xx + 309 pp. Ill. $114.95 (978-0-7546-6332-4).

Marc Epprecht. Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS. New African Histories Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiii + 231 pp. $39.95 (978-1-86914-157-8).

Gary B. Ferngren. Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xi + 246 pp. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9142-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9142-7).

Christopher E. Forth. Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. xi + 285 pp. Ill. $85.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 1-4039-1240-8, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-1240-4), $28.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 1-4039-1241-6, ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-1241-1).

Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey. Observing Bioethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 388 pp. $45.00 (978-0-19-536555-9).

Jürgen Helm and Renate Wilson, eds. Medical Theory and Therapeutic Practice in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Perspective. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 344 pp. Ill. €49.00 (978-3-515-08889-3).

David Hemenway. While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xv + 227 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth, 978-0-520-25845-7), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-520-25846-4).

Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good, eds. Culture and Panic Disorder. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxi + 272 pp. Ill. $75.00 (cloth, 978-0-8047-6108-6), $29.95 (paperbound, 978-0-80476109-3).

Gerald Kutcher. Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x + 247 pp. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-226-46531-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46531-9).

Judith Walzer Leavitt. Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...