Books review in this article: M. Stacey, The Sociology of Health and Healing: A Textbook M.B. McGuire (with the assistance of D. Kantor), Ritual Healing in Suburban America N. Gevitz (ed.). Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America. R. Cooter (ed.). Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine. M. Lock and D. Gordon (eds.), Biomedicine Examined L. Wall, Hausa Medicine: Illness and Well‐Being in a West African Culture M. Oliver, G. Zarb, J. Silver, M. Moore and V. Salisbury, Walking into Darkness: The Experience of Spinal Cord Injury S. Ainlay, Day Brought Back My Night: Aging and New Vision Loss D.E. Beauchamp, The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy L.K. Clarke and M. Potts (eds.) The AIDS Reader: Documentary History of a Modern Epidemic D. Crimp (ed.) AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism I. Robinson, Multiple Sclerosis. The Experience of Illness Series D. Kelleher, Diabetes: The Experience of Illness S. Spacapan and S. Oskamp (eds). The Social Psychology of Health: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology E.E. Filsinger (ed.). Biosocial Perspectives on the Family J. Archer and K. Browne (eds.). Human Aggression: Naturalistic Approaches