Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.1 (2001) 190-195

Books Received*

Karel B. Absolon. Virchow on Virchow (1821-1902): The Young Virchow (High School Essay--1839 * Medical School Dissertation--1843). Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2000. 85 pp. Ill. $39.50.

Karel B. Absolon and Igor Telichkin. Khirurg Bil'rot (1829-1894): stranitsy velikoi zhizni (istoriko-biograficheskoe issledovanie) [Surgeon Billroth (1829-1894): Pages of a Great Life (A Historical-Biographical Study)]. Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 2000. 572 pp. Ill. $99.50.

John Crawford Adams. Shakespeare's Physic. Reprint. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2000. 192 pp. Ill. £10.00 (paperbound).

Ann Anderson. Snake Oil, Hustlers, and Hambones: The American Medicine Show. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2000. ix + 190 pp. Ill. $38.00.

Peter Bartlett and David Wright, eds. Outside the Walls of the Asylum: The History of Care in the Community, 1750-2000. London: Athlone, 1999. xiv + 337 pp. Ill. $90.00.

Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer. AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic. An Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 310 pp. $27.50.

Jean V. Berlin, ed. A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863. Reprint. Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 199 pp. $12.95.

Marcel H. Bickel. Die Entwicklung zur experimentellen Pharmakologie, 1790-1850: Wegbereiter von Rudolf Buchheim. Gesnerus, Suppl. 46. Basel: Schwabe, 2000. 158 pp. Ill. Fr. F. 45.00; DM 54.00; öS 420.00 (paperbound).

Jan Bondeson. The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xxii + 295 pp. Ill. $29.95.

G. J. Bremer. Hora est. Proefschriften van huisartsen, 1900-1995. Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2000. 256 pp. Tables. Hfl. 59.50.

Elizabeth Briggs and Colin Briggs. Before Modern Medicine: Diseases and Yesterday's Remedies, Using Documents from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, and the National Archives of Canada. Winnipeg: Elizabeth Briggs and Anne Morton, 1998. ix + 231 pp. $24.45 + $8.00 postage (spiralbound). (Available from Elizabeth Briggs, 46 Burnhill Bay, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5N3.)

Jennifer Connor. Guardians of Medical Knowledge: The Genesis of the Medical Library Association. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; and London: Medical Library Association, 2000. xi + 190 pp. Ill. $65.00.

Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk, eds. Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. xviii + 224 pp. $79.75.

Francesco Cordasco. Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors: A Checklist and Bibliography. Reprint. Select Documents in Medical History. North Bergen, N.J.: Edna Vaughan Publishing Group, 2000. 26 pp. $5.95 (paperbound).

René Descartes. Écrits physiologiques et médicaux. Selected, edited, translated, and annotated by Vincent Aucante. Épiméthée. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000. 288 pp. Fr. F. 298.00 (paperbound).

Joan Druett. Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail. New York: Routledge, 2000. x + 270 pp. Ill. $U.S. 27.50; $Can. 35.00.

Robert Skidmore Ecke. Snowshoe & Lancet: Memoirs of a Frontier Newfoundland Doctor, 1937-1948. Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall, 2000. xvii + 334 pp. Ill. $24.95.

Greg Eghigian. Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xiii + 297 pp. Ill. $59.50; £37.00.

Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant, eds., with the collaboration of Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch. The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi. Vol. 3, 1920-1933. Translated by Peter T. Hoffer. Introduction by Judith Dupont. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2000. xliv + 473 pp. $59.95.

Michael C. Finke and Carl Niekerk, eds. One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts. Psychoanalysis and Culture, no. 10. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. viii + 215 pp. $30.00; Hfl. 70.00 (paperbound).

Richard Freeman. The Politics of Health in Europe. European Policy Research Unit Series. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2000. xi + 164 pp. Ill. $69.95.

Guido Giglioni. Immaginazione e Malattia: Saggio su Jan Baptiste van Helmont. Filosofia e scienza nel Cinquecento e...