Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.2 (2001) 368-373

Books Received*

Emily K. Abel. Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix + 326 pp. $49.95.

John Aberth. From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2000. xvi + 304 pp. Ill. $U.S. 26.00; $Can. 35.00; £15.99.

Tracey L. Adams. A Dentist and a Gentleman: Gender and the Rise of Dentistry in Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 235 pp. Ill. $45.00; £30.00.

Isobel Armstrong. The Radical Aesthetic. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. vii + 280 pp. $24.95 (paperbound).

David T. Beito. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 320 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paperbound).

José Ignacio Blanco Pérez. Humanistas médicos en el Renacimiento Vallisoletano. Estudios y Monografías, no. 5. Burgos, Spain: Universidad de Burgos, 1999. 231 pp. Ptas. 4,618.00; Euros 27.76 (paperbound).

Louise Boursier. Récit véritable de la naissance des messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France: Instruction à ma fille et autres textes. Critical edition by François Rouget and Colette H. Winn. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2000. 166 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 42.00 (paperbound).

W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton. An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900. New York: Routledge, 2000. xxviii + 588 pp. Ill. $U.S. 35.00; $Can. 52.00.

J. T. H. Connor. Doing Good: The Life of Toronto's General Hospital. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xi + 342 pp. Ill. $60.00; £40.00.

Roger Cooter and John Pickstone, eds. Medicine in the Twentieth Century. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. xix + 756 pp. Ill. $120.00; £75.00; Ecu 126.00.

J. H. Coppenhagen. Anafiem Gedoi'iem: Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland, 1940-1945. Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2000. 176 pp. Ill. Dgl. 35.00; Euros 15.90.

Rafael Cordero-Moreno. Compendio de la Historia Medicina en Venezuela. Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 1998. 174 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound).

Roger Davidson. Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Clio Medica, vol. 57. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000. vii + 383 pp. Ill. $85.00 (cloth), $28.00 (paperbound); Hfl. 200.00 (cloth), 65.00 (paperbound); £60.00 (cloth), £19.50 (paperbound).

Brian Dolan, ed. Malthus, Medicine, and Morality: "Malthusianism" after 1798. Clio Medica, vol. 59. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000. v + 232 pp. Ill. $53.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paperbound); Hfl. 125.00 (cloth), 40.00 (paperbound); £37.50 (cloth), £12.00 (paperbound).

Olivier Faure, ed. Les thérapeutiques: Savoirs et usages. Proceedings of a conference in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais and Lyon, 25-27 November 1997. Lyon, France: Collection Fondation Marcel Mérieux, 1999. 486 pp. Fr. F. 112.00 (paperbound).

Brian J. Ford, ed. Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years. London: Institute of Biology, 2000. iv + 135 pp. Ill. £10.00.

Lilian R. Furst, ed. Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature. SUNY Series, The Margins of Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xiv + 314 pp. $21.95 (paperbound).

Olivio Galeazzi, ed. Workshop: Rivista Internazionale di Storia delle Scienze Biomediche e delle Istituzioni Sanitarie/An International Journal on History, Anthropology and Epistemology of Medicine. Vol. 2, November 1999. Ancona, Italy: Casa Editrice Marcelli, 1999. 120 pp. Ill. Per copy: L. 30,000.00, Euros 15.49 (in Italy); L. 50,000.00, Euros 25.82 (elsewhere) (paperbound).

Laurie Gluckman. Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Auckland Based on the First 384 Inquests. Edited by Ann Gluckman and Mike Wagg. Auckland, N.Z.: Southern Publishers Group, 2000. 358 pp. NZ$39.95 (paperbound).

Miguel Ángel González Manjarrés. Andrés Laguna y el humanismo médico: Estudio filológico. Estudios...