Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74.4 (2000) 875-882

Books Received*

Yeshi Dhonden. Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine. Translated and edited by B. Alan Wallace. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion, 2000. 214 pp. $16.95; £11.95 (paperbound).

Thomas Dormandy. The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. New York: New York University Press, 1999. xi + 433 pp. Ill. $29.95.

Delwyn Dyall-Smith and Timothy O'Brien, eds. Dermatological Discoveries of the 20^th Century: A Record of Selected Dermatologial Discoveries throughout the Century. Suppl., Proceedings of the Nineteenth World Congress of Dermatology, "Dermatology at the Millennium." New York: Parthenon, 1999. 38 pp. Ill. $34.95 (paperbound).

Thilo Esser. Pest, Heilsangst, und Frömmigkeit: Studien zur religiösen Bewältigung der Pest am Ausgang des Mittelalters. Münsteraner Theologische Abhandlungen, no. 58. Altenberge, Germany: Oros Verlag, 1999. 467 pp. Ill. DM 80.00 (paperbound).

Doreen Evenden. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 260 pp. Ill. $64.95.

Martha J. Farah and Todd E. Feinberg, eds. Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. x + 412 pp. Ill. $45.00 (paperbound).

Jean-Claude Favez. The Red Cross and the Holocaust. Ed. and trans. by John and Beryl Fletcher. Originally published as Une mission impossible? (1988). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxxi + 353 pp. $39.95.

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown, eds. Conflict and Controversy: From Medical Care Policy to the Politics of Environmental Health. Selections of "Public Health Then and Now," articles from the last 25 years of the American Journal of Public Health. APHA Reprint Series #2. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, 1998. ix + 264 pp. Ill. $25.00 (spiralbound).

B. Raymond Fink and Kathryn E. McGoldrick, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Two Posthumous Memoirs. "M. T. Jenkins," by Adolph H. Giesecke; "Francis F. Foldes: An Autobiography," with Contributions by Ephraim S. Siker. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library - Museum of Anesthesiology, 2000. x + 271 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Kaja Finkler. Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xiv + 277 pp. $54.00, £48.50 (cloth), $24.95, £18.50 (paperbound).

Roger French. Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 2000. xxii + 280 pp. Ill. $99.95.

Zachary B. Friedenberg. The Doctor in Colonial America. Danbury, Conn.: Rutledge Books, 1998. xv + 259 pp. Ill. $1795 (paperbound).

John Gascoigne. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii + 247 pp. Ill. $64.95.

Melissa Anne Goldstein. Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic Illness. Women and Health Series: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xiv + 274 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paperbound). Uncorrected proofs.

David L. Gollaher. Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xiv + 253 pp. Ill. $U.S. 26.00; $Can.39.50.

Nathan G. Goodman, ed. The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin. Reprint. Pennsylvania Paperbacks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xi + 244 pp. $14.95 (paperbound).

Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall, eds. The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 324 pp. Ill. $64.95.

Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi, eds. Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. xi + 426 pp. Ill. $50.00.

Laura Ann Guelle, comp. Catalogue of the Samuel X. Radbill Pediatric Historical Library of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Subject index by Christine A. Ruggere; chronological index by Christine Koehler; introduction by Marc S. Micozzi. Philadelphia: College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2000. vii + 193 pp. No price given (paperbound).

Hedwig Herold-Schmidt. Gesundheit und Parlamentarismus in Spanien: Die Politik der Cortes und...