Books Received

Claudia Agostoni. Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910. Latin American and Caribbean Series. Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado; Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press; Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, 2003. xviii + 228 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth, 0-87081-733-7), $21.95 (paperbound, 0-87081-734-5).

Jole Agrimi. "Ingeniosa scientia nature": Studi sulla fisiognomica medievale. Millennio Medievale, no. 36, Studi no. 8. Florence: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002. xiii + 180 pp. €34.00 (88-8450-074-5).

Katherine Angel, Edgar Jones, and Michael Neve, eds. European Psychiatry on the Eve of War: Aubrey Lewis, the Maudsley Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. Medical History, Suppl. 22. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003. vi + 189 pp. Ill. $50.00; £32.00 (0-85484-092-3).

Graham A. J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English. Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 274 pp. Ill. $95.00 (cloth, 0-521-81935-0), $38.00 (paperbound, 0-521-53178-0).

Caroline Biggs. Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 211 pp. Ill. $69.95 (0-7546-0938-3).

Christopher C. Booth. A Physician Reflects: Herman Boerhaave and Other Essays. Occasional Publication no. 2. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London, 2003. xiii + 206 pp. Ill. £15.00 + postage (paperbound, 0-85484-093-1).

David Cahan, ed. From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xi + 456 pp. $85.00 (cloth, 0-226-08927-4), $29.00 (paperbound, 0-226-08928-2).

Juan Luis Carrillo Martos, ed. Medicine y sociedad en la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: Una aproximación a la obra de Federico Rubio y Galí (1827-1902). Cadiz, Spain: Ayuntamiento de El Puerto de Santa María y Asociación para la Formación, Investigación y Asistencia Médica de Andalucía "Federico Rubio," 2003. xxi + 516 pp. €15.00 (paperbound, 84-89141-59-2).

Alfred W. Crosby. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. New edition. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 337 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth, 0-521-83394-9), $22.00 (paperbound, 0-521-54175-1).

Robert Dallek. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. x + 838 pp. Ill. $30.00 (0-316-17238-3).

Megan J. Davies. Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia. McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, no. 14. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xv + 247 pp. Ill. $65.00 (0-7735-2502-5).

François Delaporte. Anatomie des passions. Science, histoire et société. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. 220 pp. Ill. €20.00 (paperbound, 2-13-053225-X).

Claude E. Dolman and Richard J. Wolfe. Suppressing the Diseases of Animals and Man: Theobald Smith, Microbiologist. Boston: Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 2003. xii + 691 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-674-01220-8). (Distributed by Harvard University Press.)

Theophrastus of Eresus. On Sweat, on Dizziness, and on Fatigue. William W. Fortenbaugh, Robert W. Sharples, and Michael G. Sollenberger, eds. Philosophia Antiqua, vol. 93. Leiden: Brill, 2003. vii + 324 pp. Ill. $106.00; €85.00 (90-04-12890-5).

Manfred Fankhauser. Haschich als Medikament: Zur Bedeutung von Cannabis sativa in der westlichen Medizin. Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie / Publications de la Société suisse d'histoire de la pharmacie, vol. 23. Bern: SGGP/SSHP, 2002. 329 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 47.00 (softcover, 3-9520758-9-2).

Paul Farmer. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. California Series in Public Anthropology, no. 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles...