Books Received

Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford, and John Stevenson. Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. xv, 393 pp., illus. (No price given).

Arthur Allen. Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver. New York, Norton, 2007. 523 pp., illus. $27.95.

Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York, Basic Books, 2007. vii, 600 pp., illus. $36.

Alfredo Buzzi, Dictionary of Medical Quotations with Biographies of Authors. Duncow, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, United Kingdom, 2007. x, 339 pp., illus. $48.

D. A. Christie and E. M. Tansey, eds. Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945-1990. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, Volume 28. London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006. xxv, 141 pp., illus. (No price given).

Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 218 pp., illus. $75.

Marcus Cueto. The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. Washington, D.C., Pan American Health Organization, 2007. x, 239 pp., illus. (No price given).

Anne Digby. Diversity and Division in Medicine: Health Care in South Africa from the 1800s. New York, Peter Lang AG, 2006. 504 pp., illus. (No price given).

Myron Echenberg. Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901. New York, New York University Press, 2007. xvi, 349 pp., illus. $48.

Rod Edmond. Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 255 pp., illus. $90.

Jeremy A. Greene. Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv, 318 pp., illus. $49.95.

Georg Harig. Aufsätze zur Medizin-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Marburg an der Lahn, Basilisken-Presse, 2007. 258 pp. €24 (paper).

Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick, eds. Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics of Epistemology of Biomedical Science. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 2007. iv, 236 pp. (No price given).

Anne Taylor Kirschmann. A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2004. xiii, 230 pp. (No price given).

Perri Klass. Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor. New York, Basic Books, 2007. xviii, 228 pp. $24.95 (paper).

R. Alton Lee. From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2007. xi, 233 pp., illus. (No price given).

Lester K. Little, ed. Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix, 360 pp. $75.

Angus McLaren. Impotence: A Cultural History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvii, 332 pp. $30.

Morton A. Meyers. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs. New York, Arcade Publishing, 2007. xiv, 390 pp., illus. $29.95.

Alan Monat, Richard S. Lazarus, and Gretchen Reevy, eds. The Praeger Handbook on Stress and Coping, Volume I. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2007. xvii, 279 pp. (No price given).

Alan Monat, Richard S. Lazarus, and Gretchen Reevy, eds. The Praeger Handbook on Stress and Coping, Volume II. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2007. xv, pp. 282-601 (No price given).

Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine. The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, 2007. xiii, 223 pp., illus. £18.99 (paper).

Michelle Renshaw. Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920. New York, Routledge, 2005. xxii, 312 pp., illus. (No price given).

Michael Sappol. Dream Anatomy. Bethesda, Maryland, National Library of Medicine, 2006. xii, 180 pp., illus. $30 (paper).

Jeremy Schmidt. Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context. Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. vi, 217 pp. (No price given).

Richard Sugg. Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2007. x, 259 pp., illus. $45.

Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, eds. Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. New York...