Physical Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
The Roots of Prejudice. Arnold Rose.
Racial Myths. Juan Comas.
Race and Psychology. Otto Klineberg.
Race and Culture. Michel Leiris.
Race and Biology. L. C. Dunn.
The Significance of Racial Differences. G. M. Morant.
Race and History. Claude Lévi-Strauss.     

Toward an Anthropology of Old Age

Book reviewed in this article:
Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America . Margaret Lock.
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions . Haim Hazan.
Old Age in Global Perspective: Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Views . Steven M. Albert and Maria G. Cattell.     

Book Reviews: Applied Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
Iroquois Land Claims . Christopher Vecsey and William A. Starna , eds.
Formulating American Indian Policy in New York State, 1970–1986 . Laurence M. Hauptman     

Beyond Anthropology: Toward a Man-Science

Culture and Biological Man: Explorations in Behavioral Anthropology. ELIOT D. CHAPPLE.
Ethology: The Biology of Behavior. IREN-ÄUS EIBL-EIBESFELDT. Erich Kling-hammer, trans.
Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour. Volume I. Volume II. KONRAD LORENZ. Robert Martin, trans.     

Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology

Tree Leaf Talk:. Heideggerian Anthropology. James F. Weiner. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 190 pp.
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology. James H. Zammito. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 576 pp.
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 364 pp.     

Trends in Religious Healing and the Integration of Biomedicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States and Around the Globe: A Review

Religion and Healing in America . Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 (cloth and paper). xvi + 535 pp.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States Institute of Medicine . Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005 (cloth). xx + 337 pp.
Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine . Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok with Marc S. Micozzi, eds. St. Louis: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2005 (cloth and paper). lx + 583 pp.
Negotiating the Holistic Turn: The Domestication of Alternative Medicine . Judith Fadlon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. x + 157 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Gays/Justice by Richard Mohr.
Death:Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria , edited by Richard M. Zaner.
The Contraceptive Ethos:Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities Edited by S.F. Spicker, W.B. Bondeson, H.T. Englehardt, Jr., Dordrecht, Holland:D. Reidel.
Made to Order:The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress Edited by Patricial Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.
Reproductive Technologies:Gender, Motherhood and Medicine Edited by Michele Stanworth.
For the Patient's Good:The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma.
'The Physician as Captain of the Ship:A Critical Reappraisal', Philosophy and Medicine , vol. 29. Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Larry R. Churchill, and Alan W. Cross.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Judging Medicine , by George J Annas, New Jersy, Humana Press.
Informed Consent Legal Theory and Clinical Practice by Paul S Appelbaum, Charles W Lidz and Alan Meisel.
Ethical Issues in The Psychotherapies by Martin Lakin.
Medical Ethics and Economics in Health Care Edited by Gavin Mooney and Alistair McGuire.
Rationing Medicine by Robert H Blank.
Questioni di bioetica , Edited by Maurizio Mori, Editori Riuniti, Roma.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article:
Bioetica e persona edited by Evandro Agazzi.
Medicine, Law and Social Change by Leanna Darvall.     

Book Reviews: General/Theoretical Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World . Felicitas D. Goodman
Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion . William E. Paden     

Book Reviews: Social/Cultural Anthropology

Book reviewed in this article:
Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California . James Diego Vigil
Chicano Ethnicity . Susan E. Keefe and Amado M. Padilla     

Anthropology, History, and Indonesia

Book reviewed in this article:
The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period . Leonard Y. Andaya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 306 pp. Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia . Joel S. Kahn. Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993. 314 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Standard of Care by George J. Annas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medicine, Money and Morals by Marc A. Rodwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy , British Medical Association. London: BMJ Publishers, 1993
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1992 edited by James M. Huber and Robert F. Almeder. Totawa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1993     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Beginning Lives , by Rosalind Hursthouse.
On Moral Medicine:Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics , edited by Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey.
Quantitative Risk Assessment , edited by James M. Humber and Robert F.
A Theory of Value and Obligation , by Robin Attfield.
Ethical Issues at the Outset of Life , edited by William B. Weil Jr. and Martin Benjamin.
Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying by Norman L. Cantor
Having Your Baby By Donor Insemination:A Complete Resource Guide , by Elizabeth Noble     

The Body Nearer the Self

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India . David Arnold.
Reading the Social Body . Catherine T. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds.
Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction . Alan M. Klein.     

Repatriating an Interpretive Anthropology: The American Studies/Cultural Criticism Connection

The Organization of American Culture, 1700–1900: Private Institutions, Elites and the Origins of American Nationality . Peter Dobkin Hall.
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880–1920 . T. J. Jackson Lears.
The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age . Alan Trachtenberg.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article:
Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants by Sigrid Fry Revere.
Research Ethics in Practice : The Animal Ethics Committees in Sweden,
The Beginning of Human Life edited by Fritz K. Beller and Robert F. Weir. Dordecht
Dementia und Aging: Ethics, Values, ad Policy Choices , edited by Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post and Peter J. White-house.
Least Worst Death — Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life by Margaret Pabst Battin.
All God's Mistakes — Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital by Charles L. Bosk.
Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Physician Beneficence within Clinical Medicine by Stephen Wear.     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article:
Marine fish larvae-morphology, ecology and relation to fisheries , edited by Reuben Lasker.
Environmental Physiology of Plants , by A. H. Fitter & R. K. M. Hay.
Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics , by Clive A.
Dinosaurs , by L. B. Halstead &Jenny Halstead.
Large White Butterfly. The biology, biochemistry and physiolosy of Pieris brassicae ( Linnaeaus ), by John Feltwell.
Omnivorous primates: Gathering and hunting in human evolution , edited by Robert S. O. Harding and Geza Teleki.
Handbook of Zoo Medicine , by Heinz George Klös & Ernst Lang.
Cetacean behaviour: Mechanisms and functions , edited by L. M. Herman Wiley     

Prairie Voices: Process Anthropology in Family Medicine

Prairie Voices: Process Anthropology in Family Medicine. Howard F. Stein. Westport, CT: Bergin & Gavey. 1996. xxii. 137.     

Biosocial Anthropology in Britain

Social and Biological Aspects of Ethnicity . Malcolm Chapman , ed.
The Anthropology of Disease . C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor , ed.