Books Received

Suzanne Austin Alchon. A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix + 214 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth, 0-8263-2870-9), $22.95 (paperbound, 0-8263-2871-7).

J. Michael Bishop. How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science. The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 271 pp. Ill. $27.95 (0-674-00880-4).

Olaf Briese. Angst in den Zeiten der Cholera. 4 vols. Vol. 1, Über kulturelle Ursprünge des Bakteriums; vol. 2, Panik-Kurve. Berlins Cholerajahr, 1831/32; vol. 3, Auf Leben und Tod. Briefwelt als Gegenwelt; vol. 4, Das schlechte Gedicht. Strategien literarischer Immunisierung. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. Vol. 1: 454 pp.; vol. 2: 399 pp.; vol. 3: 329 pp.; vol. 4: 169 pp. €$74.80 (3-05-003779-2).

Linda Bryder. A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907-2000. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press, 2003. xvi + 352 pp. Ill. $N.Z. 49.99 (1-86940-290-1).

Chester R. Burns. Saving Lives, Training Caregivers, Making Discoveries: A Centennial History of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2003. xii + 660 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-87611-187-8).

Jennifer Lee Carrell. The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox. New York: Dutton, 2003. xvii + 474 pp. $25.95 (0-525-94736-1).

Steven Cherry. Mental Health Care in Modern England: The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, St Andrew's Hospital, 1810-1998. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xi + 335 pp. Ill. $75.00; £45.00 (0-85115-920-6).

Eliza Lo Chin. This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Reprint. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxx + 396 pp. $16.95 (paperbound, 0-19-515847-4).

Robert W. P. Cutler. The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi + 161 pp. Ill. $29.95 (0-8047-4793-8).

Carolyn Thomas de la Peña. The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. American History and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-8147-1953-8).

Helen Dingwall. A History of Scottish Medicine: Themes and Influences. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. vi + 282 pp. £16.99 (paperbound, 0-7486-0865-6). (Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Columbia University Press.)

Jonathan A. Edlow. Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xviii + 285 pp. Ill. $29.95 (0-300-09867-7).

Sam Davis Elliott, ed. Dr. Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A., and Second Bishop of Tennessee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xxvii + 285 pp. Ill. $39.95 (0-8071-2846-5).

Josep Xavier Esplugues i Pellicer. La lluita per la vida a la Dénia contemporània: Mort i malaltia en el segle XIX i primer terç del XX. Beca d'Investigació Ajuntament de Dénia, no. 3. Dénia, Spain: Ajuntament de Dénia and Institut Alacantí de Cultura "Juan Gil-Albert," 2002. 239 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 84-931905-2-7).

Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser. Artery Flaps. Facsimile, with introduction by J. C. van der Meulen. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 2003. xxxv + 152 pp. Ill. €80.00 (90-5235-160-0).

Amy L. Fairchild. Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspections and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 385 pp. Ill. $48.00 (0-8018-7080-1).

Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Alison Li, and Kathryn McPherson, eds. Women, Health, and Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945. McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, no. 16. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. ix + 438 pp. $Can. & $U.S. 75.00 (cloth, 0-7735-2500-9), $Can. 27.95, $U.S. 22.95 (paperbound, 0-7735-2501-7).

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