Lockey, Joseph Byrne. Pan-Americanism—Its Beginnings. Pp. 503. Price, $4.00. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921

Aoki, M. Introduction to Optimization Techniques, Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Programming. Macmillan Series in Applied Computer Sciences. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1971.

On least squares and linear combinations of observations .

Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)

King was born on 4 June 1921 in New York City, New York. When his mother died in childbirth, an aunt raised King in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He studied at Fordham University [11] in Bronx, New York, where he earned his BS in 1943. Following graduation, King served as a US Army instructor in the Army Medical Technicians School [12] at the Lawson General Hospital [13] in Atlanta, Georgia. Whi...

Ishizuka Hisao, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 276, illus., $99,99, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-349-93268-9.

Stuart Justman, The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 272, hardback, $79.99, ISBN: 987-1-137-52328-0.

donor of the organ more and more substituted in several contexts the recipient as the figure of reference. And a fundamental uneasiness facing modern medicine manifested itself behind the interests of self-determination. However, the history of organ transplantation is not a history of increasing biopower in Hofmann’s view. Since the 1980s it has been formed by a liberal form of power that saw ...

Expedition Medicine (Revised Edition), D. Warrell and S. Anderson, eds. New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 398 pp, hardbound. Price: $55.

Henry M. Stanley, in his second trans-Africa expedition of 1874– 1877, lost 68% of his 356 men. Among the casualties, 58 died in battle or were murdered (several were cannibalized), 45 died of smallpox, 21 from dysentery, 14 drowned, and 1 was killed by a crocodile; several others died of starvation (all of this from the preface to this book). Modern-day expeditions—defined as organized and usu...