Health, Medicine, Science, and Pseudoscience - Bolerium Books

"Since the publication of the British edition of this book it has been shown that the letter reproduced
on pp. 310-11 and reported in the Sunday Times (see p. 67 below) purporting to be written by
Gordon Goldstein is a forgery. Although the relevant sections of the book must now be read with this
in mind, some points should be noted. The suggestion that there are bases in Thailand is by no
means implausible. The storage of CW munitions on bases in Germany and on Okinawa has been
admitted by the US. Preparations for the deployment of BW munitions, possibly at the same bases,
are quite likely to have been made. US aircraft fly missions from Okinawa to Vietnam, and this has
caused some embarrassment to the Japanese government." FYI, research from the same period in
British files (much more accessible than counterpart US files) published as "A HIgher Form of
Killing," may be a slightly better book than the one in hand.
194. COYOTE. St. James Infirmary. San Francisco, COYOTE, [1999?]. 1p, 8.5 x 11 inch leaflet, mild
wear, outreach flyer advertising St. James Infirmary's specific services and it's schedule, founded in
1999 as a peer- run health resource for sex workers. 20.00
The clinic was founded by COYOTE (Call Off Your Old, Tired Ethics), a support organization for
prostitutes and sex workers; the Exotic Dancers Alliance and the City and County of San Francisco
Department of Public Health in collaboration with University of California, San Francisco, and was
named for Margo St. James, the founder of COYOTE.
195. Crain, Irving J. Psychiatry in Cuba: An occasional paper. New York, US - Cuba Health
Exchange, 1979. 18p, glossy white wraps with very mild shelf wear, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, delivered at
New York Medical College, Department of Psychiatry, 1978. order sheet for publication laid in.
18.00
196. Crute, Sheree, ed. Health & healing for African-Americans; straight talk and tips from more
than 150 black doctors on our top heal concerns, foreword by Jocelyn Elders, M.D. Emmaus, PA,
Rodale Press, 1997. xxiv, 504p., later printing, very good. 12.00
197. Cruz, Resurreción. Santora; the good daughter, a novel. San Francisco, Xipactli Publishing,
2001. 310p., very good in wraps. Curandera-themed novel set in San Francisco's Mission District.
22.00
198. Curtis, James L. Blacks, medical schools, and society; foreword by John Z. Bowers, M.D. Ann
Arbor, The Unversity of Michigan Press, 1971. xv, 169p., dj. The African American physician
examines the history of black physicians in America and analyzes the state of medical education for
blacks. 15.00
199. Curtis, Orielle. Progress of science in the application of electricity and aerial navigation, [in]
The review; official organ of the Utah federation of women's clubs, published weekly, vol. III no. 11
Saturday, March 19 [cover story]; 1898. Annie M. Bradley, editor. Salt Lake City, the review, 1898.
4p. (of 8p.), semi-coated paperstock, 12 x 9 inch self-wraps; four folio leaves rather bafflingly
untrimmed [attached] at the top margins but split at spinefolds, intact as to text but quite edgeworn,
with a little tears expecially at old foldlines, and a corner stain. No loss of text. 50.00
A transcription of an address "delivered before the Salt Lake Woman's Club, March 1st, 1898."
These are Curtis' thoughts on the eve, not only of a new physics, but a new imperialism. Sample
quotes : "The Roentgen rays, or the X rays of Tesla, were the discovery of 1896; but last year so
widened the sphere of investigation..." following which find ruminations on electricity, magnetism,
vibration ("mounting into the trillions per secord"), the "new element helium," ether, the wave
properties of light, truisms of poetry and myth, and science fictional adaptations of radio waves :
"Signor Marconi claims to have sent, successfully, telegraphic dispatches through a hill.. Great
Britain, in her pride as queen of the seas, rejoices in having built in 1897, the fastest battleship that
ever parted the waves of the ocean; but of what avail would be her swift-winged battle ship, if from
any one of the U. S. lighthouse an electric ray could explode its magazine as far away as a beam of
light could be thrown?" It should be noted that this cataloguer's hurried reading has failed to discover
any discussion of the promise held out in the title, of "progress in aerial navigation." // Blavatsky and
Bulwer Lytton are cited, along with Edison and Morse, Edison getting most attention. No further
mention of Tesla. // Other shorter notices in The Review deal for example with discovery of cobalt
deposits in America, and the success of a recent anti-expectoration ordinance.