Books Received

Richard C. Allen. David Hartley on Human Nature. SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xxiv + 469 pp. $24.95 (paperbound).

Jon Arrizabalaga, Àlvar Martínez Vidal, and José Pardo Tomás. La salut en la història d’Europa. Publicacions de la Residència d’Investigadors, no. 1. Barcelona: CSIC, 1998. 93 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

H. F. Augstein. James Cowles Prichard’s Anthropology: Remaking the Science of Man in Early Nineteenth Century Britain. Clio Medica, vol. 52. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1999. xx + 294 pp. Ill. $88.50 (cloth), $25.00 (paperbound); Hfl. 160.00 (cloth), 45.00 (paperbound); £52 (cloth), £14.50 (paperbound).

Hector Avalos. Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs, no. 54. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. xxv + 463 pp. Ill. $49.95.

Virginia Berridge. Health and Society in Britain since 1939. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii + 133 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $13.95 (paperbound).

Richard J. Bing, ed. Cardiology: The Evolution of the Science and the Art. 2d ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xiv + 360 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth), $24.00 (paperbound).

Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds. Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 261 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paperbound); £35.95 (cloth), £14.50 (paperbound).

Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds. Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. x + 236 pp. $40.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paperbound); £31.95 (cloth), £14.50 (paperbound).

Michael Bliss. William Osler: A Life in Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xv + 581 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Rick Bowers. Thomas Phaer and “The Boke of Chyldren” (1544). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 201. Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xii + 100 pp. #22.00; £19.00.

Donald Calon. What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xvi + 288 pp. Ill. $30.00.

Dino Carpanetto. Scienza e arte del guarire: cultura, formazione universitaria e professioni mediche a Torino tra sei e settecento. Miscellanea di storia italiana, series 5; Studi e fonti per la storia della Università di Torino, no. 8. Torino, Italy: Deputazione Subalpina di Storia Patria, 1998. 318 pp. L. 40,000.00 (paperbound).

Joan Cassell. The Woman in the Surgeon’s Body. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. vii + 267 pp. $35.00.

William G. Castagnoli, Frank Hughes, John Kallir, Michael J. Lyons, and Ron Pantello. Medicine Ave.: The Story of Medical Advertising in America. Huntington, N.Y.: Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, 1999. xiii + 114 pp. Ill. $60.00.

Conférences d’histoire de la médecine: Cycle 1997–1998. Lyon, France: Collection Fondation Marcel Mérieux, 1997. 183 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

Frederick N. Dyer. Champion of Women and the Unborn: Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications/USA, 1999. ix + 614 pp. Ill. $39.95.

Garabed Eknoyan, Augusto Antonello, Natale G. De Santo, Lorenzo Calò, and Shaul G. Massry, eds. History of Nephrology, 3. Reports from the Second Congress of the International Association for the History of Nephrology, Padova, Italy, October 4–7, 1998. Reprint of American Journal of Nephrology, 1999, 19(2). Basel: Karger, 1999. 269 pp. Ill. $80.00; Sw. Fr. 92.00; DM 110.00.

George Emery and J.C. Herbert Emery. A Young Man’s Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860–1929. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Service (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, no. 7. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. xv + 184 pp. Ill. $39.95.

Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii...