Books Received

Douglas Blow. Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy. Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii, 224 pp., illus. $39.

Jane Buckingham. Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. New York, New York, Palgrave, 2002. ix, 236 pp. $60.

Paola Bertucci and Giuliano Pancaldi. Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity. Bologna, Italia, CIS, Dipartimento di Filosofia, 2001. 298 pp., illus. [Free—contact CIS@philo.unibo.it]

Jennifer Connor. Guardians of Medical Knowledge: The Genesis of the Medical Library Association. Lanham, Maryland, and London, The Medical Library Association and The Scarecrow Press, 2000. xi, 190 pp. $65.

Soraya de Chadarevian. Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II. New York, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xix, 423 pp., illus. $55.

Brian P. Copenhaver, ed. Polydore Vergil on Discovery. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. xxx, 721 pp. $29.95.

Elisabeth Crawford. The Nobel Population 1901–1950: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Tokyo, Japan, Universal Academy Press, 2002. 420 pp. JPYen 4,800 (Paper, with CD-ROM).

Elisabeth Crawford, ed. Historical Studies in the Nobel Archives: The Prizes in Science and Medicine. Tokyo, Japan, Universal Academy Press, 2002. vii, 161 pp. JPYen 3,600 (Paper).

Armelle Debru and Nicoletta Palmieri. Docente natura: Mélanges de médecine ancienne et médiévale offerts à Guy Sabbah. Saint-Eitienne, France, 2001. xix, 329 pp., illus. €30.

Martin Dinges, ed. Patients in the History of Homeopathy. Sheffield, England, EAHMH, 2002. xiii, 434 pp., illus. £52.10.

Julia C. Douthwaite. The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiii, 314 pp., illus. $19 (paper).

Jonathan Engel. Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate over Health Policy 1925–1950. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xvii, 407 pp., illus. $24.95.

Waltraud Ernst, ed. Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800–2000. New York and Florence, Kentucky, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2002. xiii, 253 pp., illus. $95.00.

Evelyn Fox-Keller. Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. xii, 388 pp., illus. $29.95.

Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy. eds. Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission. New York, New York, Routledge, 2001. ix, 383 pp., illus. $100.

James Daniel Hardy. The Academic Surgeon: An Autobiography. Mobile, Alabama, Magnolia Mansions Press, 2002. 452 pp., illus. $29.95.

István Hargittai. The Road To Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. xvii, 342 pp., illus. $29.95.

Klasien Horstman. Public Bodies, Private Lives: The Historical Construction of Life Insurance, Health Risks, and Citizenship in the Netherlands 1880–1920. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Erasmus Publishing, 2001. 211 pp. €27 (paper).

H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, A.M. Luyendijk-Elshout, F.G. Schlesinger, eds. The Four Seasons of Human Life: Four Anonymous Engravings from the Trent Collection. The Netherlands, Erasmus Publishing, 2002. 109 pp., illus. €85 (includes CD-Rom).

Elisabeth Hsu, ed. Innovation in Chinese Medicine. New York, New York, 2001. xv, 426 pp., illus. $80.

Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, eds. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: From Paternalism to Autonomy? Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xi, 159 pp., illus. $69.95.

Andreas Mettenleiter. Adam Christian Thebesius (1686–1732) und die Entdeckung der Vasa Cordis Minima. Stuttgart, Germany, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. 580 pp., illus. €96.

Wendy Mitchinson. Giving Birth in Canada. Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2002. xii, 431 pp., illus. $65.00, $29.95 (paper).

Sandra Morgen. Into Our Own Hands: The Women</&#8217;>s Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2002. xv, 284 pp. $24 (paper).

C. Barber Mueller. Evarts A.Graham: The Life, Lives, and Times of the Surgical Spirit of St. Louis. Hamilton, London, B.C. Decker Inc, 2002. xviii, 494...