Books Received

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, with the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book. Medicine and Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 333 pp. Ill. $44.95, £29.95 (0-520-22660-7).

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. and Barbara J. Niss. This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. New York: New York University Press, 2002 xii + 495 pp. Ill. $50.00 (0-8147-0500-6).

Jeremy Hugh Baron and Henry D. Janowitz, eds. Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2000. New York: Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 2002. iii + 226 pp. Ill. $100.00 (paperbound, 0-9719009-0-6).

Vincent Barras, Jacques Gasser, Philippe Junod, Philippe Kaenel, and Olivier Mottaz, eds. Visions du rêve. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé. Geneva: Georg, 2002. xiii + 271 pp. Ill. Sw. Fr. 45.00 (paperbound, 2-8257-0804-6).

Thomas Neville Bonner. Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi + 376 pp. Ill. $36.00 (0-8018-7124-7).

Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. American Crossroads, no. 11. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xi + 278 pp. 2 maps. $49.95, £35.00 (cloth, 0-520-22255-5); $19.95, £13.95 (paperbound, 0-520-23258-5).

Robert A. Burt. Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture. California / Milbank Books on Health and the Public. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xi + 221 pp. $29.95, £19.95 (0-520-23282-8).

Jan Jacob Cobben. Duivelse bezetenheid: Beschreven door Doktor Johannes Wier, 1515-1588. Rotterdam: Erasmus, 2002. 208 pp. Ill. c30.00 (paperbound, 90-5235-161-9).

Samuel J. Cohn, Jr. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 318 pp. Ill. $65.00 (0-340-70646-5).

David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Reprint. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 277 pp. Ill. $16.95 (0-674-01003-5).

Ralph Crawshaw. Compassion's Way: A Doctor's Quest into the Soul of Medicine. Bloomington, Ill.: Medi-Ed Press, 2002. 646 pp. $38.50 (0-936741-15-5).

Kevin Davies. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. Reprint. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. vi + 327 pp. Ill. $17.95 (paperbound, 0-8018-7140-9).

Ian Dowbiggin. A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xix + 250 pp. $28.00 (0-19-515443-6).

Hugh E. Evans. The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xvii + 191 pp. Ill. Uncorrected proofs. $29.95 (0-7656-0855-3).

Julie M. Fenster. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. ix + 278 pp. Ill. $U.S. 12.95, $Can. 19.95 (paperbound, 0-06-093317-8).

Isidor Fischer. Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzen fünfzig Jahre, Berlin und Wien, 1932-1933. Vol. III-IV: Nachträge und Ergänzungen. Ed. Peter Voswinckel. Part III: Aba-Kom. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2002. lxxiii + 882 pp. c138.00 (3-487-11659-6).

Elizabeth Lane Furdell. Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 282 pp. Ill. $80.00, £50.00 (1-58046-119-0).

M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, G. M. Van Heteren, and E. M. Tansey, eds. Biographies of Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures.Clio Medica, Vol. 66. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002. iii + 295 pp. $70.00, c70.00 (cloth, 90-420-1587-X); $30.00...