Books Received

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2003. xvi, 209 pp., illus. $44.95.

Diego Armus, ed. Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to Aids. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. viii, 326 pp., illus. $21.95 (paper).

David Bainbridge. The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls our Lives. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. 205 pp. $22.95.

Josep Lluis Barona, ed. Ciencia, salud pública y exilio (España 1875–1939). Valencia, Spain, Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, 2003. 283 pp., illus. (No price given.)

Geertje Boschma. The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums 1890–1920. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 324 pp., illus. € 25.75.

Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2002. xi, 289 pp., illus. $19.95 (paper).

K. Codell Carter. The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. ix, 237 pp. (No price given.)

Catherine Ceniza Choy. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 257 pp., illus. $19.95 (paper).

Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama. Le Corps á L'Épreuve: Poisons, remèdes et chirugie: aspects des pratiques médicales dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Langres Cedex, Dominique Guéniot, 2002. 190 pp. € 22.90.

Roger Cooter and John Pickstone, eds. Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century. New York, New York, Routledge, 2003. xix, 756 pp. $39.95.

Antoine Danchin. The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. 368 pp., illus. $35.00.

Kevin Davies. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx, 327 pp. $17.95 (paper).

Ian Dowbiggin. A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America. New York, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. xix, 250 pp., illus. $28.00.

Roger French. Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. v, 289 pp. $60.00

David Gagan and Rosemary Gagan. For Patients of Moderate Means: A Social History of the Voluntary Public General Hospital in Canada, 1890–1950. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's Univerity Press, 2002. xi, 268 pp. $49.95.

Galen, translated by Owen Powell. On the Properties of Foodstuffs. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxvi, 206 pp. $55.00.

Ante Gimmler, Christian Lenk, and Gerhard Aumüller, eds. Health and Quality of Life: Philosophical, Medical, and Cultural Aspects. Hamburg, Germany, Hans-Martin Sass, 2002. 217 pp. (No price given.)

Colin Gordon. Dead on Arrival; The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2003. x, 316 pp. $29.95.

Jason Hughes. Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiii, 201 pp. (No price given.)

Susan D. Jones. Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America. Baltimore, Maryland, The John Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii, 213 pp., illus. $45.00.

Alois Kernbauer. Die "Klinische Chemie" im Jahre 1850. Stuttgart, Germany, Steiner, 2002. x, 192 pp. € 34.00.

John Krige and Dominique Pestre, eds. Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century. New York, Routledge, 2003. xxxv, 941 pp., illus. $39.95 (paper).

Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Danielle Quéruel, and Évelyne Samama. Air, Miasmes et Contagion: Les Épidémies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age. Langres, France, Dominique Guéniot, 2002. 197 pp. € 22.90.

Thomas W. Laqueur. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York, Zone Books, 2003. 501 pp., illus. $34.00.

Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. xvii...