Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
"Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States."
Inst. of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418.
294 pp. $34.95.
Editors:Joshua Lederberg, Robert E. Shope, and Stanley C. Oaks, Jr.
During the 1950s, American physicians and public-health officials concluded that progress in medicine and pub- lic health was making the con- quest of infectious i...
DE GAULLE. Vol. I: The Rebel, 1899-1944.
Vol 11: The Ruler, 1945-1970. By Jean
Lacouture. Norton. 614 pp.; 640 pp. $29.95
each
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST.
Vol. I: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian
Saints. Edited by Pauline Schmitt Pantel. Trans.
by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard. 572 pp.
$29.95
HER SHARE OF THE BLESSINGS: Women's
Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians
in the Greco-Roman World. By Ross
Shepard Kraemer. Oxford. 275 pp. $24.95
By Ferdinand
Mount. Free Press. 282 pp. $24.95
By Noel Mostert. Knopf. 1,355 pp. $35
By Michael
D. Coe. Thames and Hudson. 304 pp. $24.95
By Maria Tatar.
Princeton. 295 pp. $24.95
By Hazel Holt. Dutton. 308 pp. $19.95
Ed. by George Monteiro. LSU Press. 107 pp.
$20