Books Received

Karel B. Absolon. Karel B. Absolon Interprets The "Belle Epoque" of Surgery: The Life and Times of Theodor Billroth. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 1995. 296 pp. Ill. $99.50 (AAHM members, $79.50).

Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden, eds. Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History. Women and Health: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. xvii + 605 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paperbound).

Mikel Astrain Gallart, Fernando Girón Irueste, Guillermo Olagüe de Ros, and Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña. Historia Medicina en la Universidad de Granada, Siglos XIX-XX: Conmemoracíon del 25 Aniversario de la Institucionalización de la Historia de la Medicine en la Universidad de Granada. Grenada, Spain: Área de Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad de Granada, 1997. 259 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

Douglas O. Baldwin. She Answered Every Call: The Life of Public Health Nurse Mona Gordon Wilson (1894-1981). Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada: Indigo Press, 1997. xx + 318 pp. Ill. $21.95 (paperbound).

Udo Benzenhöfer. Paracelsus. Rowohlts Monographien. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1997. 155 pp. Ill. DM 12.90; öS 94.00 (paperbound).

Annie Berner-Hürbin. Hippokrates und die Heilenergie: Alte und neue Modelle für eine holistische Therapeutik. Basel: Schwabe, 1997. 528 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 65.00; DM 78.00; öS 570.00.

Christian G. Bien. Erklärungen zur Entstehung von Mißbildungen im physiologischen und medizinischen Schrifttum der Antike. Sudhoffs Archiv Suppl., no. 38. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997. 212 pp. DM 74.00; öS 540.00; Sw. Fr. 74.00 (paperbound).

Robert L. Blakeley and Judith M. Harrington, eds. Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xix + 380 pp. Ill. $45.00.

Jorge Bonilla-Colón. La ortopedia en Puerto Rico: Medio siglo de progreso. Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1997. vi + 201 pp. Ill. No price given. (Available from the author, Valle Real A-11, P.O. Box 7351, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732.)

Aviva Chomsky. West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiii + 302 pp. Tables, graphs. $35.00.

Clif Cleaveland. Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1998. xix + 210 pp. $21.95.

Geoffrey Cocks. Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions, and Society under Extreme Conditions. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998. xvii + 219 pp. $34.95.

Maynard M. Cohen. A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway's Physicians and the Nazis. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 326 pp. $39.95.

Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo, eds. The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality: The European Experience, 1750-1990. The Hague, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1997. xxxi + 258 pp. Tables, graphs. $84.00; Nlg. 135.00; £53.00.

John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott. A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present. Reprint. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. 551 pp. Ill. $22.95 (paperbound).

John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Reprint. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. xii + 335 pp. $16.95 (paperbound).

Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds. Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1997. ix + 294 pp. Ill. $79.95.

Thomas M. Daniel. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997. viii + 296 pp. Ill. $49.95.

James M. Edmonson. American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of Instrument Makers to 1900. Norman Surgery Series, no. 9. San Francisco: Norman Publishing in association with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1997. xi + 352 pp. Ill. $150.00. (Available from Norman Publishing, 720 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102-2502; tel.: 415-781-6402; fax: 415-781-5507; e-mail: orders@jnorman.com; http://www.historyofmedicine.com).

J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith, eds. A Melancholy...