Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.2 (2002) 421-426

Books Received*

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. Medicine and Society, no. 11. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xxii + 364 pp. Ill. $35.00, £24.95 (0-520-23151-1).

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel, eds. Des savants face à l'occulte, 1870-1940. Sciences et société. Paris: Éditions la Découverte, 2002. 233 pp. e17.50 (paperbound, 2-7071-3616-6).

Vadim J. Birstein. The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001. xx + 492 pp. Ill. $U.S. 32.50; $Can. 48.95 (0-8133-3907-3).

Linda Bryder and Derek A. Dow, eds. Maori Health. Special issue, Health and History: Journal of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001. 139 pp. $Aust. 20.00 + $5.00 postage and handling. (Available from: Health and History, Centre for the Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.)

David Cantor, ed. Reinventing Hippocrates. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. x + 341 pp. $99.95 (0-7546-0528-0).

Barbara Clow. Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Service (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, no. 12. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xviii + 237 pp. $65.00 (cloth, 0-7735-2210-7), $27.95 (paperbound, 0-7735-2211-5).

Kenneth Collins. Be Well! Jewish Immigrant Health and Welfare in Glasgow, 1860-1914. East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2001. xiv + 194 pp. Ill. $U.S. 19.95; $Can. 29.95; £12.99 (paperbound, 1-86232-129-9).

Nathaniel C. Comfort. The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 337 pp. Ill. $37.50; £25.95 (0-674-00456-6).

Thomas Cooley. The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xxvi + 302 pp. Ill. $34.95 (1-55849-284-4).

Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, eds. Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xii + 264 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 0-226-12023-6), $20.00 (paperbound, 0-226-12024-4).

Peter J. Davies. Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, no. 59. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. xxiv + 271 pp. Ill. $69.95 (0-313-31587-6).

Myron Echenberg. Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945. Social History of Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann; Oxford, U.K.: James Curry; Cape Town: David Philip, 2001. xviii + 303 pp. Ill. $69.96 (cloth, 0-325-07017-2), $28.00 (paperbound, 0-325-07016-4).

Thomas Fuchs. Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes. Trans. Marjorie Grene. Rochester Studies in Medical History, Vol. 1. Originally published in 1992. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. xix + 247 pp. $65.00 (1-58046-077-1).

Naomi Fulop, Pauline Allen, Aileen Clarke, and Nick Black, eds. Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2001. xii + 228 pp. Ill. $U.S. 80.00, $Can. 120.00 (cloth, 0-415-25762-X); $U.S. 27.95, $Can. 41.95 (paperbound, 0-415-25763-8).

Elizabeth Lane Furdell. The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. x + 305 pp. $65.00 (1-58046-051-8).

Luis García-Ballester. Medicine in a Multicultural Society: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Practitioners in the Spanish Kingdoms, 1222-1610. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 2001. xii + 374 pp. $117.95 (0-86078-845-8).

Léon Gautier. La médecine à Genève jusqu'à la fin du dix-huitième siècle. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la m&eacute...