Books Received

Hans A. Baer. Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, & Gender. Madison, Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii, 222 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).

Iain Bamforth, ed. The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine. New York, New York, Verso, 2003. xxx, 418 pp. $30.00 (cloth).

George W. Bruyn and Charles M. Poser. The History of Tropical Neurology: Nutritional Disorders. Sagamore Beach, Maine, Science History Publications/USA (a division of Watson Publishing International), 2003. xii, 144 pp., illus. $24.95 (paper).

Michael Bulmer. Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvii, 357 pp., illus. $45.00.

Vincent J. Cirillo. Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2004. xiv, 241 pp., illus. (No price given).

G. Thomas Couser. Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing. Ithaca, NewYork, Cornell University Press, 2004. xv, 234 pp. $47.50 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).

Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, 2004. vii, 519 pp., illus. $26.00 (paper).

Pierre-Yves Donzé. Bâtir, Gérer, Soigner: Histoire des éstablissements hospitaliers de Suisse romande. Genéve, Suisse, 2003. xviii, 367 pp., illus. (No price given).

Joel Peter Eigen. Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 223 pp. $39.95.

Sabine Fruhstuck. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 2003. x, 267 pp., illus. $50.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).

Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks, eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. vi, 217 pp. $42.00.

Laura Gowing. Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in the Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2003. viii, 260 pp., illus. $38.00.

David Hamilton. The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland. Edinburgh, Mercat Press Ltd., 2003. xiii, 318 pp. £11.99 (paper).

Frederick Holmes. The Sickly Stuarts: The Medical Downfall of a Dynasty. United Kingdom, Sutton Publishing Limited, 2003. xv, 224 pp., illus. $29.95.

John A. Kastor. Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x, 356 pp., illus. $55.00.

Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio. Biomedical Platforms: Realigning theNormal and the Pathological in Late-twentieth-century Medicine. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2003. xiv, 544 pp., illus. $55.00.

Evelyn Fox Keller. Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 388 pp., illus. $17.95 (paper).

Hans Kermit. Niels Stensen: The Scientist Who Was Beatified. England, Gracewing Publishing, 2003. viii, 179 pp., illus. £12.99 (paper).

Richard J. Kitz, ed. This Is No Humbug!: Reminiscences of the Department of Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Ashland, Ohio, Atlas Books, 2003. xvii, 459 pp., illus. (No price given).

Marcia Kupfer. The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xvii, 202 pp., illus. (No price given).

Christopher Lawrence and Fiona A. Macdonald, eds. Sambrook Court: The Letters of J.C. Lettsom at the Medical Society of London. London, The Wellcome Trust, 2003. v, 320 pp., illus. £15.00, $24.00.

Friedrich Löffler. Lectures on the Historical Development of the Field of Bacteriology. Trans. Dexter H. Howard. Danbury, Connecticut., Rutledge Books, 2001. xxiii, 399 pp., illus. $28.95 (paper).

Jane Maienschein. Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii, 342 pp., illus. $27.95.

Carolyn Malone. Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880 - 1914. Rochester, New York, The Boydell Press, 2003. xi, 169 pp. $75.00.

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