Books Received

Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby, eds. Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (Clio Medica 73). New York, Rodopi B.V., 2004. 338 pp., illus. $51 (paper).

Christopher M. Callahan and German E. Berrios. Reinventing Depression: A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940–2004. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii, 214 pp., illus. (No price given).

Stéphane Castonguay and Camille Limoges. Francois Blanchet: L'étudiant et le Savant, Tome I. Montréal, Québec, VLB éditeur, 2004. 396 pp. (No price given).

Geoffrey Chamberlain. Special Delivery: The Life and Times of the Celebrated British Obstetrician William Nixon. London, RCOG Press, 2004. xii, 154 pp., illus. (No price given).

Aileen Clarke, Pauline Allen, Stuart Anderson, Nick Black, and Naomi Fulop, eds. Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader. New York, Routledge, 2004. xviii, 350 pp., illus. $18.99 (paper).

Marcos Cueto. El Valor de la Salud: Historia de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Washington, D.C., 2004. viii, 211 pp., illus. (No price given).

Joseph E. Davis. Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2004. x, 340 pp. $27.50 (paper).

John Farley. To Cast out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913–1951). New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 323 pp., illus. (No price given).

Tony Farmar. Patients, Potions and Physicians: A Social History of Medicine in Ireland. Dublin, Ireland, A. and A. Farmar, 2004. x, 254 pp., illus. €30.

Stanley Finger. Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 364 pp., illus. (No price given).

Janet Golden. Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 232 pp., illus. $25.95.

Richard L. Golden. A History of William Osler's "The Principles and Practice of Medicine." Osler Library Studies in the History of Medicne, no. 8. Montreal, Quebec, 2004. xiii, 265 pp., illus. (No price given).

Sydney A. Halpern. Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi, 232 pp., illus. (No price given).

H. F. J. Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Medicine. Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. xv, 407 pp. $148.

George Khushf, ed. Handbook of Bioethics: Taking Stock of the Field from a Philosophical Perspective. Vol. 78 of Philosophy and Medicine. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. vi, 568 pp. (No price given).

Gary Marcus. The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought. New York, Basic Books, 2004. ix, 278 pp., illus. $14 (paper).

Chris Demetrios Meletis and Jason E. Barker. Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind: A Guide to Natural Brain Enhancers. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2004. xi, 288 pp. $39.95.

James C. Mohr. Plague and Fire: Battling the Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 235 pp., illus. $30.

Angela Montford. Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 2004. xiv, 302 pp., illus. $99.95.

Bruce T. Moran. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 210 pp., illus. $24.95.

Barbara J. Niss and Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963–2003. New York, New York University Press, 2005. viii, 407 pp., illus. $50.

Londa Schiebinger. Nature's Body: Gender and the Making of Modern Science. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2004. xviii, 289 pp., illus. $22.95 (paper).

Johanna Schoen. Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina...