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Martin Goldman, The demon in the aether. The story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86228-026-5. £18.

Although medical historians have devoted much attention to questions of infant mortality, maternal health and mortality have often been overlooked in the past and present. Semmelweis' classic study of childbed fever well deserves translation, and Codell Carter's abbreviated text deserves wide circulation. It merits the attention not only of those specifically interested in nineteenth-century debates on the germ theory and atmospheric theories of infectious disease, and from those interested in the use of statistical methods in medicine, but also for its immensity of vivid detail on attitudes to birth, on general conditions in maternity hospitals throughout Europe (including Britain and Ireland), and for its demonstration that it was far more dangerous to be attended by a doctor rather than a midwife at birth.