Books Received

Jesse F. Ballenger. Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvii, 236 pp. (No price given).

Josep L. Barona and Steven Cherry, eds. Health and Medicine in Rural Europe (1850-1945). Scientia Veterum. València, Seminari d'Estudis Sobre la Ciència, 2005. 372 pp., illus. €18 (paper).

Pradip Kumar Bose, ed. Health and Society in Bengal: A Selection from Late 19th-Century Bengali Periodicals. New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2006. 293 pp. (No price given).

Patrice Bourdelais. Epidemics Laid Low: A History of What Happened in Rich Countries. Translated by Bart K. Holland. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 176 pp., illus. $19.95 (paper).

Philip Cash. Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: A Life in Medicine and Public Service (1754-1846). Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, Watson Publishing International, 2006. xi, 516 pp. (No price given).

Patricia D'Antonio. Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University Press, 2006. 253 pp., illus. $46.50.

Donald A. Dewsbury. Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930-1965. Cranbury, New Jersey, Bucknell University Press, 2006. 347 pp., illus. $55.

Jonathan Engel. Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xx, 318 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Harry Oosterhuis, Joost Vijselaar, and Hugh Freeman, eds. Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 456 pp. (No price given).

Charles M. Good, Jr. The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xx, 487 pp., illus. (No price given).

David Boyd Haycock and Patrick Wallis, eds. Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy. Medical History, Supplement, No. 25. London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005. viii, 216 pp., illus. $64.

Lynette A. Jackson. Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2006. xiii, 230 pp., illus. $24.95 (paper).

Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen, eds. Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. New Brunswick, NewJersey, Rutgers University Press, 2006. vii, 299 pp., illus. (No price given).

Hilary Marland. Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii, 303 pp., illus. $75.

Natacha Massar. Soigner et Servir: Histoire sociale et culturelle de la medicine grecque à l'époque hellénistique. Culture et Cité 2. Paris, De Boccard, 2005. 338 pp. (No price given).

Lianne McTavish. Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv, 257 pp., illus. $89.95.

Irina Metzler. Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about Physical Impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400. New York, Routledge, 2006. vi, 355 pp. (No price given).

Fen Montaigne. Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi, 229 pp., illus. $25.

M. Laura Lepscky Mueller. La Famiglia di Daniel Manin. Venice, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 2005. xi, 386 pp., illus. (No price given).

Michelle Murphy. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. Durham, NorthCarolina, Duke University Press, 2006. x, 253 pp., illus. (No price given).

Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, eds. Genes and Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. vi, 378 pp., illus. $23.95 (paper).

Scott H. Podolsky. Pneumonia before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x, 254 pp. $49.95.

Julia Rodriguez. Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 302 pp., illus. $24.95...