Book notes
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.) 1998.Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year or, the Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Ph.D., Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Princeton University Press (N.J.) 1998.
Biochemistry and Disease: Bridging Basic Science and Clinical Practice
by Robert M. Cohn, M.D. '65 and Karl S. Roth, M.D., Williams & Wilkins (Baltimore, Md.) 1996.Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis
by Thomas M. Daniel, M.D., B.S. '51, University of Rochester Press (N.Y.) 1997.
Chain of Custody
by Harry A. Levy, M.D., M.P.H. '82, Random House (N.Y.) 1998.Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression
by David G. Fassler, M.D. '82, Viking Penguin (N.Y.) 1997.
Improve, Perfect, and Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education
by the late Oliver S. Hayward, M.D., and Constance E. Putnam, University Press of New England (N.H.) 1998.New Treatments in Opiate Dependence
edited by Susan M. Stine, M.D., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Opiate Treatment Program and Thomas R. Kosten, M.D., HS '81, professor of psychiatry and chief of psychiatry both at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Guilford Press (N.Y.) 1997.
The Portrait
by Charles Atkins, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, St. Martin's Press (N.Y.) 1998.
Skin Signs of Systemic Disease
by Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. '55, HS '56, professor of dermatology and in the Cancer Center, W.B. Saunders Co. (Penn.) third edition 1997.
Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
by Peter A. Selwyn, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the AIDS Program, Yale University Press 1998.Terror in the Medical Office
by Norman F. Moon, M.D. '56, Kabel Publishers (Rockville, Md.) 1998.
The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change
by Barbara Almond, M.D. '63 and Richard Almond, M.D. '63, HS '66, Praeger Division of Greenwood Publishing Group (Westport, Conn.) 1996.The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.) paperback edition 1998.
